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Hi, thank you for your patience on our opening night! We're so glad you enjoyed the atmosphere. We do season the rice and normally it is VERY sticky. I'm not sure if you got a bad scoop near the bottom or something. We will work to address this in the future. However, normally the rice is incredibly sticky, almost annoyingly so from the perspective of the person with it stuck on their gloves. Also as it is labeled on the menu, our musubis are oil free so they are not exactly a perfect spam replacement nor are they claiming to be. Hilariously, we actually already use Black Salt. If that is what you recommend and you did not like our food, then maybe it is not a good recommendation from your perspective. We're so glad you enjoyed the Zeastar! It actually tastes like nothing when you buy it from the company, so thank you! That's not even an insult to the company as they are not intending to send people already seasoned fish replacement. The point is to replicate the texture which they did a great job doing. We as the restaurant marinate the Zeastar. So no, fortunately you actually just loved our deliciously seasoned poké! I noticed in your con list that you claimed that we use cheap ingredients and seasoning which is simply not true. We use multiple amazing local companies to supply our ingredients at a much higher financial cost to us (although we believe it is very much worth the quality). This includes the organic tofu you disliked so much. We also handmake all of our sauces, so I'm not sure why you said we have no house-made dipping sauces. I am sure we will improve! No restaurant remains the same quality and keeps the same menu that they had on their opening night! That being said a lot of people said this was the best vegan food they have ever had so we wouldn't want to change the menu too much! Funniest part of the whole review: "I implore them to hire a more experienced vegan chef." I rate this line 5/5 stars for hilariousness. The chef is the co-owner and my wife. She has won national awards for her recipes at our other restaurant. We will not be firing my wife/herself any time soon, but that would be pretty funny if we did. P.S. my wife has Hawaiian ancestry. She has family there and has been there many times. Her middle name is Hokulani (in response to your growing up in Hawaii).


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