Hula Shrimp

Found them today at Makers & Tasters located along the Kewalo Harbor. Very good shrip plate, lots of garlic and magic sauce.

Awesome guava chicken, I wish my stomach was bigger so I could eat another plate. Caught them at Street Grindz in Kewalo today by Ward Center. $ 10 for the plate, lots of chicken, mac salad and nice fresh side salad.

Waited in line for an hour to order our food then waited another thirty minutes for the food itself. When our food was finally out we sat down and ate immediately and it was ice cold… An hour and a half of waiting for ice cold nasty food…

Shout out to the owner who decided to increase the prices of his plates from $ 10 to $ 18 while everyone was in line for well over a half hour at Eat The Street Turtle Bay on Fourth of July. That’s an 80% price increase! It’s assumed it was because he found out that all the other food trucks ran out of food. When questioned by a woman about the price change, he then decided to belittle her in front of everyone and clearly let her know that this is his business & he can do whatever he wanted.
With a name like Hula Shrimp, I’d really expect more Aloha, especially from a local Braddah. Don’t really care how the food tastes at this point. You gotta be out of your mind to think I’d support a place with such poor business practices and no respect for their customers.

Waited over half an hour with no sign of my order being ready. Fucking horrible, would have rated no stars if possible

Went to Eat The Street in Mililani (March 14, 2015) This was my first time trying out this food vendor. I waited in line for about 5 minutes ordered a Seared Garlic Ahi ($ 12.00) from I’m assuming the boss (older lady, who btw was very nice) BUT waited forever just to receive my food!
1^st — I noticed that they ran out of propane to fry their ahi & shrimp BUT they didn’t even tell their customers who have already placed their orders that it would be a few minutes until they could put the ahi on the pan. (The guy had to walk back to his car to get a new tank!)
2^nd — by the time they got a new propane tank, everyone (over 10 people) who ordered after me got their plates and left.
3^rd — its a SEARED garlic ahi, it’s not that long to cook.
4^th — People AFTER ME who ordered the same thing (ahi) got their plates BEFORE ME.
5^th — I was getting impatient and I was very hungry at that point so I told the guy who was calling out names where my order was because I was waiting for a very long time. Apparently it was already ready! It was just sitting on the side by the pile of plates to be served. He told me «Sorry, it was my fault, here’s your plate.» That’s it. No «thank you for coming, or heres a drink on us.» Nothing just a «my bad.»
I was too hungry and upset to say anything so I just left angry and stormed into the crowd.
Look I understand you’re busy because of the crowd but I don’t think any customer whether they went to a restaurant or visiting a food truck deserves to wait for a long time for a simple meal (1) without letting them know you ran out of propane. (2) Another thing is their SYSTEM of getting plates to their customers is messed up. How would you know who ordered first? Two people could be waiting for the same thing but the person who ordered first may not even receive it until later. (3) APPRECIATE your customer.
Once I sat down to eat, it was cold and kind of disappointing. DID NOT look like their sample in front. At least it tasted okay, I guess. (Extra star for the nice lady)

I went to Eat The Street tonight (01/​30/​2015) my boyfriend and I decided to both 2 two choice plates at $ 15 each. We decided to take our plates home since it was around closing time. When I opened my plate I only had one choice…(where’s my second choice?) did I get stiffed? I paid $ 15 for a one choice? Deng.

Tried this food truck once at Night Market in Kaka’ako and it was amazing, but I haven’t seen it anywhere since? Where, o where, art thou Hula Shrimp?

Guava chicken… I wonder how it tastes like? I must try. Sooo, why is it called guava chicken? I took a bite of it… it was good. but where is the guava taste? Meh so sad. I was expecting a guava taste in that chicken. Sigh. The chicken wasn’t too burned. The rice wasn’t too hard or mushy. Salad was included in the meal plate. It was a filling meal for $ 8. Simple and quick for dinner.

Eat the street tonight at Kapolei High School. Stood in line for almost 40 minutes. As I get closer to the line, they erase all the prices on their menu board… just the prices. Now, I order the Kahuku garlic shrimp and pulehu steak combo. I get my plate and it feels so darn light. I open it to make sure that is what I ordered. One scoop rice, 4 pieces shrimp t that did not look like kahuku shrimp at all, and steak that looked like the bottom of the pan… little pieces, and where the salad was supposed to be was empty. When I asked where my salad was, the dude says, oh they ran out of salad. Okay, so why don’t you tell your customers and replace it with something else… like an extra scoop of rice? I felt like they hoped I wouldn’t notice. Mind you the plate cost me $ 12. Now, there are still about 40 people in line, and they start crossing items off their menu board without letting their customers in line know.
The couple who was behind me was told that they ran out of steak, and would they like chicken instead? The husband says, «well I was waiting in line for almost 45 minutes for the steak, if you ran out of steak, then I guess so, chicken. He was so upset.
They should announce to their customers early enough how many plates are left for a particular item. Very bad judgment in quantity of food.
I wasted my time in line for this and was really disappointed. Never again. Not worth standing in this line only to have them run out and tell you only when you there to order.
The picture here is what the plate is supposed to look like. It was no where near this. Never again.

Discovered this food truck at Eat The Street a couple months back. The aroma from their BBQ was too good to pass up. Got the combo bento that included Guava Chicken, Garlic Shrimp and Mahi Mahi over rice. Good portion of food and it was delicious. The line was kind of long when I ordered, but felt the wait wasn’t bad by the time I got my food. It was all worth it when I was all pau from eating.

Had this place at eat the street last night. My buddy and i waited in line for 45 minutes (which is fine, there was a ton of people) he got shrimp and i got the bento box sampler thing. He got his food within 5 minutes of ordering and his shrimp was tasty, had lots of garlic which i liked but it is hard to eat if you don’t have a table but whatever.
Anyways heres the best part, i waited another 45 minutes to get my box but it wasn’t because they were cooking my food, it was because they had no order to there method when putting the food together. I even heard one of the girls call out a name and the guy started to grab it but the other girl working the booth snatched it from the other worker to give to a different person. I wonder if he ever got his food after that! I only got my food after i asked why the people that ordered behind me were getting their order (which was the same as mine) before me.
But wait it gets even better! So i finally get my food and the crusted ahi was delicious and the shrimp was what i expected since i had just some 40 minutes prior but the chicken… oh man the chicken… i found out after i bit into it that it was completely raw! Waited an hour and a half for RAW chicken! Yes the lady at the register seemed a bit concerned when i showed her but the cook seemed mad at me until he looked at it in the light. Their solution…“get him some more chicken!” Are you kidding me?! No don’t replace my meal that was contaminated with raw poultry! No worries i didn’t want my money back, i feel as though i got what i paid for. I told her no thanks and walked away, told a lady in line and she continued to wait! So i guess it must be good and not a common experience. But seriously how many people unsuspectingly ate raw chicken from this place last night!
That’s what i get for breaking my rule of beef or fish only from roach coaches. Now my stomach hurts :/​hopefully its just in my head. The crusted ahi was really good so that’s what the extra star is for.

Got this on my last day visiting Oahu while at Eat the Street Food Fest. Got the guava bbq chicken, which sounds a little disgusting by the name since I’ve never had it but was SO SO SO good. Includes rice seasoned with furikake, salad, and the bbq.

The elusive Hula Shrimp Truck. I tried them at some festival in Wahiawa a couple of months back, but I’ve been slacking on my Unilocal reviews so here we go.
Guava chicken. Anywhere I go, if guava chicken is on the menu, it’s what I usually get. I’m not sure why people don’t serve it. Their guava chicken is delicious.
Pulehu steak give me heart burn every time. I hate the heart burn but I love the steak. I’m 120 lbs. I feel like it’s worth the risk. Their pulehu steak is delicious.
Their ahi is not so memorable but is also delicious to a lesser extent.
Off-​hand I think they say their shrimp is from Kahuku. Honestly, I don’t know if it’s me convincing myself that the extra money is worth it, but I felt like I liked the shrimp the best out of all of them.
I love them. I have dreams of them getting a twitter account and serving up their food around town. Until then, I’ll have to settle for Eat the Streets and random neighborhood events.

Guava chicken was delicious !! Great friendly service. You have to stop by for lunch…

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I tried this stand (I’m not sure if it’s a truck or a stand or what) at the Honolulu Book and Music Festival and it was CRAZY good. I went early, my 4 year old in tow, and took a chance with the Hula Shrimp bento. It came with shrimp, meat, kalbi, and guava chicken. Let me just say that I’m a gourmet truck super fan, and I will spend lots of money to eat good food out of a movable restaurant. I spent $ 9.50 (I think) on this plate and it was so ridiculously great that I didn’t share. Not any. I bought my daughter a pretzel and she never knew what she was missing. :)
The guava chicken was so good. Amazingly good. It was tender, smoky, with the slightly burnt crunch on the edges that I love. I want to rave and rave about this chicken, but I feel like I can’t do it any justice. I’ll just stop here. It was good. Must try.
The rest of the stuff is really good too. I would highly recommend this stand if you see it. Don’t forget the chicken! Have a bite for me ;)

Checked this stand out in Kailua today… great food. Got the garlic seared ahi and guava chicken combo. $ 12. Ive had a lot of food trucks where you paid a lot but didnt get a lot. Hula shrimp is the opposite. I got two big pieces of ahi, two big chicken breasts, rice, and a salad. Bigger than your average lunch plate and delicious. Garlic ahi was cooked just right; garlic wasnt too overpowering but enough to appreciate. Guava chicken was cooked through but still juicy. If I see these guys around, I will definitely order again. Waited about 10 minutes, not bad for fresh food. Only downside is I wanted to try the shrimp but they weren’t selling it!

I’ve owed this review since the last Eat the Street Mililani on March 17^th!!!
Sorry it’s so late!!!
Five stars! Why? Excellent customer service, the shrimp plate was yummy, well put together, it was beautiful, and the enthusiasm from the entire staff was awesome!
We bought food from a bunch of vendors that day, but this bunch was by far, the most fun group, proud of their food and serviced their customers well. My 8 year old son, who the plate was for, was excited to go and eat his plate of shrimp! Didn’t want to share it with his 5 year old sister, but eventually did, just to show off how good it was!
For my boy to ask if we can hunt this truck down again, that means it was good. My kids love garlic shrimp, and I did get to taste one, it was prefect, not over cooked.
Beautiful garlic shrimp in all it’s glory!!! And a pretty salad too. I’m particular about my tossed salad, I don’t like those ugly, chunky ice berg salads. I only like pretty salad!!!
Thank you for a great experience!

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I’ve been meaning to try their plates so on this recent visit to eat the street I decided to give them a try because I was in the mood for something with rice. I got their guava bbq chicken plate for $ 8. It came with 1 scoop of rice with furikake, a small salad and 3 pieces of chicken thighs. The wait was less than 5 minutes so that was good. The chicken was nice and hot and really moist and flavorful. Some of their other plates that looked good were their pelehu steak, grilled ahi and ribs. For $ 8 the plate was a bit expensive for what was served but it was delicious so i’ll give em that. I also wished that they had a mini portion because I would have liked to sample other trucks without being too full and/​or having to carry leftovers. Overall, I couldnt really taste the guava flavor but the chicken was still very good; it was very savory with some sweetness.