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FUUD: Yakitori Yoshi off Keeaumoku

By Catherine Toth Fox • May 6, 2011 • Food

I’m a big fan of food on a stick.

Hot dogs, teriyaki beef, chocolate-covered cheesecake — these things are meant to be skewered.

So whenever a new yakitori-ya (Japanese restaurant that serves skewered foods, particularly chicken), I make a mental note to plan a visit STAT.

That’s how I ended up at Yakitori Yoshi last night, a new yakitori-ya — well, it’s more like an izakaya than specifically a yakitori-ya — near Walmart on Keeaumoku Street.

Here’s what we ate:

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Derek lives for mentaiko (cod roe), so when he saw it on the menu, he quickly ordered it. (In fact, I didn't even know he had ordered it until it came.) This musubi ($2.50) was well done, he said, with just enough saltiness and that rich egg flavor you'd expect.

In all, it was a fun evening of skewered food — and we'd definitely come back again. There are still a few more dishes we want to try.

Yakitori Yoshi, 1427 Makaloa St. Phone: 808.941.6891

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4 Comments

  • Reply Justin May 6, 2011 at 6:38 am

    Although this place may be dressed up like a chic izakaya, the dishes they serve appear reminiscent of real Japan. I think the wife and i are going to have to try this place sometime. Until i saw the photo you took of the menu, I don’t think I had known a place in Hawaii that serves all the parts of the chicken (tail, back, etc.). In fact, the only place I had seen these parts was in the basement level of japanese department stores, which is basically a bigger version of Shirokiya’s second-floor food area (with even more delicious foods, like yakitori, okonomiyaki, fresh ama ebi, hamachi, chuutoro, …). Wow, my mouth just started watering.

    • Reply Catherine Toth May 6, 2011 at 12:29 pm

      Have you ever had chicken back? I was tempted to try it, but I had already over-ordered and couldn’t put another thing in my mouth.

  • Reply M May 6, 2011 at 7:46 am

    Hello Cat,
    Happy Fuud pixs Friday!
    Another place to add to my list.
    Have a great weekend!

    • Reply Catherine Toth May 6, 2011 at 12:29 pm

      Thanks for posting on both sites! Appreciate it! 🙂

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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