Kyung's Seafood

Saw Kyung’s on a list of essential “off the beaten path” Honolulu restaurants. We’re pretty adventurous eaters and love Korean and sushi, so this seemed up our alley. Without doing too much research, we walked over from Waikiki and started getting nervous that the restaurant would be a tiny hole in the wall or sketch etc. But were pleasantly surprised when we went inside. The staff was super friendly and welcoming. We ordered the small sashimi platter plus the Kalbi and Poke combo. This came with some banchan of kimchi, Mac salad, and pickled radishes. Everything was delicious!! The sashimi was some of the best I’ve had, even compared to some of the “elite” sushi spots we’ve had in LA. And the kalbi were so good too. All the banchan were very good too. For the money, we felt this was really good value. All in all, highly recommend!

We went for happy hour. $10 pitchers! Meat jun and fried mandu were good but nothing to write home about. The poke, however, was out of this world good. We got the mamas special. the little bit of rock salt goes a long way to make it extra delicious. Its a tiny place and we were happy to sit at a table that was reserved an hour+ later.

Came here for dinner on a Wednesday. We rant to reserve a table in advance, which they were happy to accommodate. It’s a vibrant/loud restaurant that really feels authentic. The food was amazing, great value and delicious. We got the sashimi $30, meat Jun and kalbi. All tastes great. I’d highly recommend for a good value, delicious and easy meal.

Any random seafood restaurant in Hawaii can serve the same quality food but where else can you find such hell-like customer service? A dumb waitress ruined our dinner by forgetting our orders not only once, not twice, but THREE times in 1.5 hours. We first ordered our drink and waited for 20 minutes till the manager happened to come by and brought our drinks. It’s not even the fun part. After we waited another 30 minutes, the waitress dared to come and deliver the bill WITHOUT SERVING ANY MAIN DISHES. We had three people with three entrees on the bill, but none of those plates were on the table??? At that point we were still trying to be nice, and simply reminded the girl about our orders again. Then our first entree came. That’s it. That’s the only main dish we got for the entire dinner. When two starving customers wanted to check with that waitress 30 minutes later, she came WITH THE BILL again. We were already tired of reminding her, but here she asked: “what food?” As if one half-pound salmon poke can feed three adults?? As if after the first mistake she still doesn’t feel the need to check our orders again? As if she didn’t even look at our bill for one sec before rushing to us for her tips? We were in fact not surprised when she just walked away realizing there were still two missing dishes. ‘Cause she didn’t apologize for the first and second time, either. Neither her, nor the manager, came to our table to make any apologies. We then went to complain about the waitress, and the manager just passively waived the payment and told us “you can go now” like we were the ones making nonsense in her restaurant. Forgetting is one thing. The attitude those people carried is truly disgusting. Find another restaurant if you can. There are like ten seafood spots in the same block. Trust me, It’s not worth the time, energy, or your decent soul to deal with this disaster.

In A Nutshell: -Kyung's Seafood is a local spot to grab some good comfort Korean/Japanese food. -They specialize in "fresh local ahi sashimi and poke". -This small restaurant is located on the corner of South King & Birch Street. -There is a very small, 3 car parking lot. -We ordered their popular combo of Korean short ribs (galbi) + Poke. -The short ribs were a little undercooked, so we asked them to cook them a little longer, but once they came back again, they were really good b/c they are pretty thick short ribs. -The poke is plentiful & tasty. Overall, this is a local spot so if you live here or visiting w/ a large group of people, maybe you could look into their catering service.