L&L Hawaiian Barbecue

This L&L is located in the food court of Queen Kaahumanu Center. ATMOSPHERE: It's a takeout counter with mall food court-style seating. FOOD: Chicken Katsu Huge portion! It's about 3 or 4 fillets, 2 scoops of rice and mac salad. The batter is tasty and not oily, and the mac salad is pretty good but not the best I've had. The katsu sauce is too sweet for me. I use a store-bought sauce at home which is darker and saltier. BBQ Chicken My go-to dish. I received 3 big boneless and skinless thighs, pounded flat, seasoned perfectly savory, flat top-grilled flawlessly, that resulted in juicy, fork-tender poulty goodness. Way better than the version at Pearl's Korean BBQ, I might add. The 2 huge scoops of rice were sticky and moist, and scoop of macaroni salad had the right amount of salt & may

Chain style bbq. Chicken was dry but 3 stars because the portions are huge. The Seattle one is better.

As I am standing in line, patiently waiting to place my order, I notice a man sitting right inside of the doorway to the kitchen, in full view, I am assuming he is the cook. The man starts picking at his nose, it turns out, it isn’t just an itch, he is digging for gold, going to town in both nostrils. As I’m waiting, I’m staring at the food in the trays, then looking over at him, watching him, he’s oblivious. As I look back-and-forth again, still standing in line, I finally ask myself, are you serious? Wishing I hadn’t left my phone in the car. Initially, my thought was to point it out to the girl dishing up the food, as though it would make a difference or that any of the three workers would care? Disgusted, I finally walked away. There aren’t many places on Maui with Chinese(ish) food. T

Tasty plate and good portions for the money. I had the #11 Kalua Pork, steamed rice, Mac salad and I was easily able to substitute the BBQ short rib for the pork/fish wrapped item....Yummy!

Food was tasty in the dark, bingo mall. Would go again. A reliable staple.