Jinroku Teppan Grill and Bar is a Japanese Teriyaki styled restaurant located in Waikiki. It is just a block North of where Waikiki is. Its menu offers lunch special menu items and it got additional items for dinner. It also offers Okonomiyaki, which is like Japanese styled pancake. We have not seen many restaurants outside of Japan offering Okonomiyaki. However, during the lunch time, it only offers one type of Okonomiyaki on the menu. Its dinner menu has more selections of Okonomiyakis.
We went to Jinroku for lunch and there were barely anyone in the restaurant. We ordered a salmon teriyaki and a pork bacon Okonomiyaki. We were told that Okonomiyaki would take 15 minutes to make, but we were fine with that. While we were waiting, there was a homeless person walking by the patio and started to talk weird stuff. Not exactly sure what he was saying and the restaurant staffs were shocked and did not know what to do. Luckily, he left after talking to himself for two minutes or so.
15 minutes later, our food has arrived! The salmon teriyaki looks really good! The salmon was crispy and tender. It was juicy and well cooked. Unlike salmon teriyaki in many other restaurants, the salmon teriyaki at Jinroku is one whole piece of salmon that still has skin attached. We actually liked that.
The Okonomiyaki looked very interesting. It has the sweet teriyaki on top and it was sliced into four pieces. We were given a small "shovel" to cut it into pieces. There are tons of vegetables in there and it even has fried noodles in there. It was our first time trying Okonomiyaki and we found it quite interesting. We really like the crunchy texture of it. If we could, we would come back to Jinroku for dinner just to try other styles of Okonomiyaki.
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