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    3.9 (9 reviews)
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    Pupu Plate of BBQ chicken, Kalua pig & cabbage, rice, mac salad, and pork lumpia with sauce
    Travis T.

    The food was alright, it could be better. The mac salad has a little too much salt. The BBQ chicken and the Kailua pig tasted like it was reheated in the microwave. The pork lumpia with dipping sauce was okay. It took about 20 min to get the food from ordering, which was a little slow. However, this restaurant recently established so it may take a while to improve its efficiency. The inside is nothing special since it feels old-fashioned. Overall, this place is a nice addition to the dining scene of the Junction City/Manhattan, KS area.

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    Alex W.

    I've been excited to try it since they opened and the pictures really don't do it justice! Originally there was 5 lumpia but I ate one on the way home I was so excited. Super crunchy and flavorful but the sauce is what makes it happen. The Parking is really bad which is unfortunate but there's not much they can do about that honestly. The meats were very tender and good, except for the beef. The beef (pictured in the middle) was 90% inedible it was incredibly chewy and just felt like cartilage. I thought it was a few pieces but it was that whole section unfortunately, could've just been an off day. Other than that, I have no complaints! Everything was just fine and not horribly expensive either! Will definitely be back. Service was good you could tell it was a family owned business which I can appreciate :)

    Pork lumpia, Kalua pig, bbq beef, bbq chicken and Mac salad

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    Food here is always great, it has Fast service and friendly people. The prices aren't too bad either!

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    Limited menu. Not gluten free. Helpful and friendly owner. Pulled pork tasty and tender

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    Green Tea - Out of Control Roll

    Green Tea

    3.6(132 reviews)
    17.0 mi
    $$

    For sushi in the middle of Kansas, not bad at all! Ordered a variety of salmon rolls and the…read moreportions were pretty large, and well worth the value. I ordered takeout, but the restaurant seemed busy for lunch and theyre moving to a new location soon!

    Going into this restaurant I had already set the bar low because its in the middle of Kansas &…read morethere is not a lot of big bodies of water close by. This place failed miserably even setting the bar low already beforehand. After getting sat & taking our order it was downhill from then on to the end of our meal. Our waitress seemed like she had no clue what she was doing or it was her 1st day. She knew nothing about the menu or their food items when asked. She even messed up a iced tea drink how do you do that? We tried to keep it easy for them & ordered their big ticket item the Sushi boat. Man this was a huge mistake! Everything was Chefs choice which is normal. Waitress brought out the boat & just said here you go, huh? Does this place not understand the concept of explaining what they are serving to you? Especially a sushi boat that's all Chefs choice, so at least you know what you are eating? Lets get to this $60 Sushi Boat, they call the "LOVE BOAT" HAHA Lets just say, I would have LOVED to throw all of it back into the ocean. It was that bad no hyperbole Nothing about it was salvageable, the Sashimi, was either falling apart, not prepared or seasoned right, frozen solid, or tasted like a spongy rag. It would fall apart in your mouth, had ZERO taste! 1 positive was that the pieces were pretty chunky. The Nigiri, man really bad, was all mostly HUGE CHUNKS of SOLID STALE RICE, with a small sliver of DRY tasteless fish on top, who uses that much rice for NIGIRI? The fish on top was bland at best for all of them, even the soy sauce couldn't make it taste better! Thats when you know place is bad when fish doesnt taste better with soy sauce The ginger they gave us looked like it was pickled in a toilet & horrible rancid tasting Last was the cream cheese crab rolls & tempura rolls, 1st of all when you order a premium sushi boat anywhere in the world let alone middle of Kansas when do they call a cream cheese crab cut roll, a premium item let alone included on premium sushi boat or a deep fried crab roll? You're supposed to include your premium items on a sushi boat like this, but nope not here! The deep fried tempura roll, which was all mostly fried & could barely tell what was even in it, all you could taste was fried tempura, the cream cheese roll, same, all you could taste was the rancid tasting strong cream cheese overpowering it Not 1 piece of this overpriced thing was edible. NOT EVEN 1! The appetizer we ordered, was Fried Shrimp shumai, easy item to make. They effed that up too! It was over fried & all you could taste was the fried tempura part, no flavor, tasted like cardboard, let alone shrimp also couldn't taste it inside. Id be surprised if there was any shrimp in it at all! The service level alone was abysmal at best, not to mention she forgot our utensils, never brought out any ginger, serving plates for us to eat on, napkins, for our unknown sushi boat etc Literally all sorts of easy mistakes left & right, no attention to detail whatsoever. Extremely sloppy waitressing & service At same time should have known better, was literally 4 college girls working there, they decided to sit directly next to us, when it was close to closing time, not even a few feet away, arms distance being loud, talking about "hey you should just F**K that guy, so you can get what you want" also shouting at kitchen worker "Alberto" "Alejandro" in the back. This was the best part, they close at 11PM, they served us our sushi boat at around 10:45PM ish, at 11PM sharp! Our server, who gave us brilliant service (SARCASM), not wasting a minute.... Because she probably had to go "F**K that guy she was screaming with her coworkers, to get what she wants, few minutes prior said "NO RUSH" but need to close you out, which is fine I get that part, we close out no problem Literally, I mean literally, still had 2/3 of our horrendous sushi boat left, she comes back 4 minutes later @ 11:04, saying sorry "We do close at 11pm, have to ask you to close out & leave" HUH? You complete & utter moron, 4 min prior you saw how much food was left on our giant Sushi boat, that you brought out at 10:45ish with no utensils, plates or anything, then bring our check 11 SHARP saying "NO RUSH" only to come back 4 min later to say we have to leave since you guys are closed at 11PM?!?! This is after we just ordered the MOST EXPENSIVE OVERPRICED ITEM ON YOUR MENU & NOT LET US FINISH THIS TERRIBLE QUALITY NIGIRI, SASHIMI & STALE ASS ROLLS YOU GAVE US TO EAT IN 10-15 min?!?! LOL. You can only laugh at this bullshit WORST SUSHI RESTAURANT EVER! SERVICE, FOOD QUALITY, ENVIRONMENT, AMBIANCE, WORKERS, PRICES. ALL OF THE ABOVE embarrassingly BAD! TOTAL NIGHTMARE DINNER!!! Even for already setting bar low & being in middle of Kansas this was a total joke of a restaurant! NEVER GO HERE!!!! EVEN IF YOU ARE DRUNK & HIGH! STAY AWAY & SAVE YOUR MONEY FROM THESE CLOWNS! DONATE IT TO CHARITY, would have been put to better use!

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    Green Tea - More filth on floors and walls!

    More filth on floors and walls!

    Green Tea - The miso soup and salad sides which come with the entrées.

    The miso soup and salad sides which come with the entrées.

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    Bobbyd's Merchant St Bbq - Rib sandwich

    Bobbyd's Merchant St Bbq

    4.2(127 reviews)
    56.0 mi
    $$

    This is my first review so I will organize the hearts so you know my opinion…read more (black (A)/fill in) good (gray(B)/half filled in) mid (white(C)/blank) bad FoodC: The food kinda tastes rotten and burnt especially the fries, the chicken strips were so hot I burnt my mouth, and I don't know if I was sick but I throw up outside. ( that's why there a picture of bubbles for TADC sticking out his tongue because that was the face I made while throwing up) Service A: it's great. Price and valueB: it's bit questionable, like why is the chicken strips $7.25 for 2 but $8.25 for 3 I don't know if the fries go with the chicken or not but it the fries didn't come with the chicken strips shouldn't it be $10.90, but I'm all right because the food kinda affordable, also can we talk about the portions like why are the chicken strips so huge but the fries were super tiny like even tinier than most places kids menus. AtmosphereA: there's the right amount of background noise, the tables were clean. The seating was great. ( besides some ribs on the couch table,) OverallB: it's a great place to eat in the hipster part of town just don't get the chicken strips. (Edit: it's like 4 AM when I'm writing this I threw up again really bad and I have very bad constipation, and they only reason why I'm up at like 4 AM is because I was watching Turning Red but I'm thinking I'm Meilin Lee, Pomni from TADC is Miriam, Spamton G. Spamton from Deltarune is Abby, and SPC 049 is Priya. And ohh yeah Naomi from animal Crossing is there for some reason, the story takes place in 2016, and we go to a Bruno Mars concert.) (edit edit: sorry I updated the rating system to letters instead of heart emojis cause emojis don't work)

    They have specials every day! I got the most delicious rib tip plate on Thursday with 2 sides for…read more10 bucks! So much delicious meat I couldn't even eat all the rib tips! They were yummy and messy! Make sure you get napkins! So good they are finger licking good ! My husband got a combo 3 meat plate and he loved it too! Service staff are really nice. Treat you like family. Never been to this place before but I felt like I was home. Lots of locals being called by name. It's a place you can bring family and friends and have a good time and eat well. Nobody is going to leave hungry for sure!

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    Bobbyd's Merchant St Bbq - My face when I accidentally threw up

    My face when I accidentally threw up

    Bobbyd's Merchant St Bbq - Three mests + one Dinner

    Three mests + one Dinner

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