Joy Teriyaki & Poke

I enjoyed my food a lot—an order of shrimp yakisoba with soy and orange sauce on the sticky rice, a bottle of pineapple flavored Mexican Faygo, and a side of potstickers for the table to share—and found it both filling and satisfying. Especially considering the relatively late hour (≈8:30pm-9:00pm) and the fairly cheap price-point of the entire dish ($17.50 for the Yakisoba; $2.50 for the drink; ≈$5 for the Potstickers?) I can't complain overmuch. Unfortunately the service wasn't terribly great, so I will be complaining somewhat. My main issues: • The cashier didn't really understand the questions I asked him, and I couldn't really understand what he said to me in response; therefore I just ordered exactly by the number. • Despite ordering exactly as pictured, the others with me in my party didn't get the broccoli that was supposed to be in their Teriyaki Chicken/Steak bowls; mine was fine though. • We didn't get our side of potstickers with our meals; after waiting ≈15 minutes, I went to the counter to mention it to the cashier. After the initial language confusion, he became very apologetic and brought them out promptly—they were crispy and rather good, so ultimately it wasn't an issue. The main reasons I bring up these issues is because of the three of us, I had to handle each issue rather than my siblings. Each of them felt uncomfortable dealing with things, but for different reasons. My sister didn't want to ask anyone to repeat things or clarify what someone said, so she just stood uncomfortably and waited for one of us to explain things to her. By brother was annoyed by the missing broccoli and kept grumbling about the money spent on the Potstickers, but dislikes confrontation, so he just glared into his rice. So I went up, mentioned the issues—nicely, politely, asking instead of making demands—got them resolved easily, moved on with our meals and our nights; everyone was happy. We'll all definitely be coming back again. Most likely for late-night dinners or a quick snack before events or activities.

- Mark Taylor -

The yakisoba had an excellent noodle to chicken to veg ratio. Portion was huge and food was delicious! Ambience was great too - enjoyed the music and video scenery of Hawaii. My partner got the teriyaki bowl and said it was among the best he’s ever had

- M Hickerson -

Food was good. Teriyaki sauce was ok. Good portion size. Plastic utensils were too flimsy as I had a hard time getting the fork into my chicken.

- Damon Betts -