Post #778324 by Kahtiki on Sat, Jul 29, 2017 9:53 PM

I didn't visit the Kahiki until the 1990s when I was in college. Some of the food I remember was EXCELLENT...never had a bad experience with the Tahitian Mermaid, Mahi Mahi Almondine or the Rack of Lamb with Indonesian sauce. The Chicken Pineapple Kahiki, Samoan Flaming Chicken, and Hawaiian Spare Ribs were just kind of okay. I wish I ate there more often, but I was too poor back then.

The food at the Tropical Bistro was better quality it seems than the Kahiki...but then again I stuck to my favorites. There were several days when I ate lunch AND dinner there. Theang (I think that was his name) was sooo nice. I hope he found success. He had a great personality to run the restaurant...and got me hooked on Navy grog! He gave me a few swizzle sticks from the Kahiki...so I wonder if he knew the writing was on the wall.

For those of you who wish to sample the Processed food the company puts out, I hope you like SALT...because that's the only thing I taste. However, I'm not one who likes to eat processed food.

If I want Kahiki, I don't do the processed stuff...I make it myself either from one of the few recipes published over the years or try to do it from memory and if I go hard core, I might even pull out some of the items from my Kahiki shrine to drink out of.