{"id":247,"date":"2005-09-29T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T11:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2024-06-04T07:20:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:20:18","slug":"ono-hawaiian-bbq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2005\/09\/ono-hawaiian-bbq\/","title":{"rendered":"Ono Hawaiian BBQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2013 Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been going to Ono from time to time over the years.\u00a0 The food is consistently good.\u00a0 The fried seafood is a particularly good value, given how much fish &amp; chips costs elsewhere.\u00a0 You can get the occasional flier with coupons.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite dish is the chicken katsu, but I recommend getting a combo as otherwise the flavors get boring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2005 Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the last year or so a plethora of Hawaiian BBQ restaurants have opened in San Leandro. While the first one to open, <a href=\"\/food\/rest\/aloha.html\">Aloha BBQ<\/a>, was quite good, all the other ones we&#8217;ve tried since have been a disappointment. <b>Ono Hawaiian BBQ<\/b>, which recently opened in Palma Plaza, is somewhat better than the rest, though still not as good as Aloha.<br \/>\nWe got take-out from there a couple of weeks ago, and we went for the Hawaiian BBQ Mix ($7.30), which included chicken, beef and short ribs. The meat was of similar quality to the other places: low. The beef and short ribs were fatty and chewy, while the chicken had hints of that weird, canned-chicken-like consistency that I find so unappealing. It seems almost universal at Hawaiian restaurants, so I may just have to conclude that I don&#8217;t like Hawaiian food. That said, I did enjoy the spicing of the meats.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m willing to give Ono another try, but I&#8217;ll probably try something different.<br \/>\n<b>Update 10\/14<\/b>. I went to Ono for lunch today and I got a mini-plate of the chicken katsu (about $4.50) It was a very generous portion for being a &#8220;mini&#8221;. The chicken was that reconstituted kind I mentioned before, but the weird texture wasn&#8217;t as apparent under the breading. The breading was light and yet pretty dry. By itself the chicken was boring, but the katsu sauce improved it. I&#8217;d get it again on a pinch.<br \/>\nI ate in the restaurant which is quite nicely appointed with granite-style tables and modern light-wood chairs. All the food is served in styrophone take-out containers, which makes it hard to cut and eat.<br \/>\nOno Hawaiian BBQ<br \/>\n13808 E.14th St., Suite C<br \/>\nSan Leandro, CA<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onohawaiianbbq.com\/\">http:\/\/www.onohawaiianbbq.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2013 Update We&#8217;ve been going to Ono from time to time over the years.\u00a0 The food is consistently good.\u00a0 The fried seafood is a particularly good value, given how much fish &amp; chips costs elsewhere.\u00a0 You can get the occasional flier with coupons. My favorite dish is the chicken katsu, but I recommend getting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,598],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","category-san-leandro-eats","tag-san-leandro","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}