Pagaikiki's Kitchen was established in 2005 by the Pagaikiki Family in Samoa, offering Samoan…read moreflavored smoked BBQ dishes, such as huli huli chicken, turkey tails, and lechon. In 2016, the Pagaikiki Family moved to HI and focused on catering services. In 2021, a lunch wagon was purchased and upgraded to a 18-foot trailer that was used in Maili, on the Waianae side for business. The family has since relocated and are welcomed in its present permanent location in their own kiosk just outside of the Navy Exchange in Pearl Harbor, a retail department store and commissary for US military. There is also a food court, which is ope to the public. The Pagaikiki's Kitchen prepares, cooks, and offers the following: * Huli huli chicken * Beef BBQ * Lechon Plate * Turkey Tail Plate * Pork Plate * Ribs Plate Note that the marinade is made Samoan style, which has salt, sweet onion, garlic, black pepper, and other spices. Pagaikiki's most popular dish is its huli huli chicken, a grilled chicken dish known for its sweet, savory, and smoky flavor, enhanced by marinating chicken in a special sauce and basting it while grilling. "Huli Huli" means "turn turn" in Hawaiian, frequently turning chicken as it cooks, with a local marinade of soy sauce, ketchup, brown sugar, pineapple juice, ginger, and garlic, creating a carmelized glaze when cooked. Note that Pacific Poultry Co., trademarked the term "huli huli" back in 1967 and restricts the use of "huli huli" on commercial sauces or specifically marketed chicken products by competitors without permission. As such, Pagaikiki's use of the term "huli huli" is describes their chicken as a cooking process, and not as a commercial sauce. This brings back memories of the 1970's and 1980's where school clubs would hold fundraising events of cooking and selling huli-huli chicken. A lot of hard work, but knowing when you follow that sweet smoky wafts, you'll be rewarded with delicious, juicy chicken! After the pandemic, however, these huli-huli chicken events have drastically decreased and hard to find. But when you do, you'll be rewarded with delicious and juicy chicken to savor! We've tried the following: * Whole "huli huli" chicken. A little different taste from your local "huli huli" chicken due to the Samoan flavors of ingredients and spices, but I loved it! Still considered island-style BBQ with smoky huli huli chicken, kiawe is the main flavor, with more smoke being incorporated. The chicken was slow roasted over fire until its glace carmelized, and was juicy, tender, well-seasoned, and very flavorful! Lots of juices came out of the chicken! * Rib plate. Tasty chewy ribs, but wished the meat would fall off of the bones. Can purchase meats ala carte or with two scoops rice and choice of salad, mac salad, or kim chee. The mac salad was tasty, with its Samoan version of ingredients and spices. There is complimentary house-made BBQ seasonings on the side that are very tasty and not spicy. Portions are generous, and prices are reasonable. Service was very friendly, as the family who operates the business is very welcoming and eager to answer your questions. The covered kiosk is located near the UPS Store and just outside of the NEX. The kiosk is rather large, as it incorporates ordering, pick-up, and houses drinks and equipment to maintain its popular huli huli chicken. No need to have military ID to purchase, as it is open to the public. Hours of operations are Mon to Sat 10a to 3p and closed Sun. Free parking is available in the NEX parking lot. We look forward in returning to having the huli-huli chicken again, as well as trying other menu items. Delicious meats, generous portions, reasonable prices, and friendly service are excellent reasons for enjoying this fine meal! We wish continued success for the Pagaikiki Family in their business venture! Support local!

Had to try the main menu item first. Ordered the 4 piece chicken plate and it was great! Took about…read more5-7 minutes. They are busy so I thought that was fast. The plate has three drumsticks and a thigh. So good. Tasty and moist. The seasoning works well. Doesn't taste like traditional huli huli chicken. More like lightly smoked hibachi chicken. Also included are 2 scoops rice with drippings (nice touch) and Mac or toss salad. Their bbq sauces are good and complement the chicken well. I will be back to try the turkey tails!

Their truck was on Makaloa St behind First Hawaiian Bank and across from Kapiolani Business Plaza…read more There were 4 people in the food truck. 1 person taking orders and 2 people cooking. Order taker said that I could substitute bacon for steak. My order was naughty tater tots with bacon, fried onions, olive with cheese sauce. I love any food with bacon and cheese sauce over tater tots was unique and so delish. Business can be found on Instagram at the_unmissteakable.

I got the Steak beer cheese mac and added on mushroom and bacon…read more Was satisfying. Bacon and mushroom were $2 each, but felt worth it for a satisfying but smaller dinner pre dancing.

Mmmm... Delicious!!…read more The wife and I caught a quick glance of Moore's Soul Food Kitchen truck while they were parked at Geiger in Ewa Beach. It was the first time we saw this truck, so we both couldn't help but be curious about the goods.. especially my wife lol. First off, the owner was super cool! Being that my wife is from Louisiana, every time we hit up a soul food spot, she asks where they're from. Today, we learned that the Moore's family is from Florida and have been in Hawaii since the 80's. Since we already had an early lunch, we weren't tryna get too crazy on the ordering as I typically do. My wife decided to try the chicken wing plate which came with 10pc chicken wings and fries. After debating on the flavor choice, we agreed on chipotle mango. When the owner hand delivered the plate to us, she asked for our honest review... and here it is!! Haha! FIVE STARS! :) Happy to report the wings and fries were amazing!!! Loved the homemade sauce that the wings were tossed in. I was expecting a little kick after catching a scent of hot sauce, but they weren't spicy at all. I appreciate the naked wings too btw. They were so juicy and flavorful, and I love when my food is piping hot! Excited to try other offerings and even other flavors of wings. Hopefully more menu items are available the next time we stop by. Today there were a few things marked SOLD OUT. As far as hours of operation and locations, the best thing to do is follow them on instagram (which I don't have), but calling their number to check the schedule is another option. Hope you love it!!

Came here one Wednesday at the Ewa beach location and I was very disappointed. Ordered the chicken…read morewing combo with fried and a small size of mac and cheese. The wings had NO flavor!!! It's like they just deep fried it without any seasoning or flour. Then they just threw buffalo sauce for flavor. The fries were frozen fries that you could get from your local grocery store. Nothing special. Hand cut fries would have been a lot better. The mac and cheese is a big zero. No taste and it wasn't the best kind of cheese. As a "soul food" restaurant, I was very disappointed. I've been to a lot of soul food places and a lot of them stand out in a good way. They marinate there chicken, and fry it with flour, they hand cut the fries and fry it with peanut oil, and lastly they scratch make the mac n cheese. Saldy this restaurant failed to put more effort into their food. Which is why im giving them a big fat ZERO. Only put one star cuz I have to. I won't be coming back.

Vince catered a summer camp event for us and did a great job! Communication was good, and we worked…read moreto find a solution within our budget. The food was delicious and the kids loved it. Would recommend supporting this veteran-owned business

Mac and cheese was dry. Rice was spoiled. Not a good experience. Would highly avoid if at all…read morepossible.

We stopped by their food spot at the China Town Lunar event. The pictures drew me in for skewers…read moreof large pieces of meat with a nice salad. The order: 3 Skewer Plate with 2-BBQ chicken and 1-Teri Beef served with rice and toss salad. Both skewers had good flavor but it was sitting so not very hot and Teri beef a bit chewy. It was a good amount of food to feed my sone and me and still have some left overs. Price point may see a bit high at $20, but it was in line with all food vendors for a special event. The server was polite and food was readily available. Would try them again if I can get hot skewers, haha

Got the steak & shrimp steak. Food was thinly sliced, plenty rice & salad included. They did leave…read morethe shrimp tails on though.

YUMMY! The truck was in my area today and so glad I went. Thinking I would be beating the lunch…read morecrowd by going at 10:30am, I was wrong. There was already a line forming. The menu is simple but I still had a hard time deciding, everything sounds good as I reading the menu. Ordered the Pork Katsu burger with the fries (thin fries + tater tots mix) = $15. Portion was big. The fries was nicely crisp and the pork katsu was juicy. Definitely will try the plate lunches if they're ever back in the area again.

Yes, the cute panda mascot made me try this food truck. Asian guys of all ages are so susceptible…read moreto anything kawai AF. Who doesn't love Kabayaki AKA "eel sauce", spicy yum yum sauce, and kewpie preferably mixed in some kind of way? It's all about the sauces. They are much less salty and milder than most places. They add flavor to whatever they are on instead of overpower the flavor of the protein. "The Happy Mix", takes a re-fabricated, eight inch, jumbo shrimp katsu tube coated in kabayaki sauce and pairs it with the orgasmic explosion, errrrr, I mean chicken explosion (chicken katsu topped with a semi spicy yum yum sauce cut with kewpie a drizzle of kabayaki and furikake for good measure). Lots of sauce but the flavor of the shrimp and extremely well made, crisp, juicy, chicken katsu still shine. "The Salmon Explosion", a very well cooked piece of previously frozen salmon topped with a good amount of imitation crab also generously covered in the dynamite, kewpie, kabayaki concoction. Other places make this combo, no one makes it as good. Extremely friendly owner. Popping up all over. Follow on IG.

Color me impressed! This was my first time trying La Roux, and I'm so glad it caught my eye. At…read moreEat the Street this past weekend, the food truck was so colorful and welcoming, I had to go over and see their options. With a number of deliciously interesting dishes, I settled on the Crawfish Etouffee! In a creamy white and red sauce, the large succulent crawfish were perfectly done. With just a bite of heat, all the flavors complimented each other each. The rice and sides were perfectly presented; it was as appetizing as delicious. I was also impressed with the cleanliness of the truck and simplicity of the ordering and payment. Credit cards are accepted. Both the chef and cashier had that southern hospitality and welcoming manner. I can't wait to give their other items a try very soon! Bon appetite!

I've tried La Roux twice--my first experience was decent. I got the shrimp etouffee and liked it a…read morelot (although my rice was too mushy). My order took a long time. My second visit was this past Thursday for the Maker & Tasters Ramenagogo event, so my bf and I tried their creole saimin. We were both very dissapointed. Our food came out cold, so we asked them to reheat it. From the time we arrived to the time we left was almost an hour because it took FOREVER for them to make the food each time. Also, it didn't taste that good. They were nice enough to comp us bourbon bread pudding since we were dissatisfied--that was really yummy (nice and gooey, not too sweet)! We noticed another customer was waiting forever too, so he asked to be comped a bread pudding. My advice: only come here if you're willing to wait.

Today at a food truck event at City Hall I ordered 2 Shaggy Jrs. I gotta say it's the pictures of…read moreyour menu board that sold me - they all looked so 'ono. After ordering - 15 seconds later my name was called. Yes, I thought wow that was super quick! I grabbed the 2 containers and headed back to the office. This was going to be our snack on the way home. When I got back to the office this is what I found. The burgers were $15.00 each and both were extremely papaʻa. We took a bite from the first burger (it tasted how it looked) then opened the second box and it looked worse. How shameful to serve this kind of food that should have been thrown out and not sold. You need to do better, aūe! One star was generous because zero stars was not an option.

First time trying their amazing burgers and I will try to return as much as I can! So tasty and…read morefries weee just the way I like them--skinny cut and super crispy! Well done! I'll bring by my fawn Great Dane!