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 Average Score Out of 10 Normalized Score
#1 Young's Kalbee (Aiea)
 6.7Taste 6...Texture 7...Presentation 8. Kind of greasy but tasty and not too battered. Sauce a little too sweet. 3.4 Taste 2...Texture 2...Presentation 9. Oily, cold, chewy. 6.3Taste 7...Texture 6...Presentation 5. Meaty, tender, tasty. 7.8Taste 8...Texture 8...Presentation 7. 8.6Taste 9...Texture 9...Presentation 7. Golden brown. Excellent a cut above others. 4.6Taste 5...Texture 5...Presentation 3. Oily, although meat was very flavorful. 8.4Taste 8...Texture 8...Presentation 10. Nice Better with sauce. Slightly mushy. Overall has the best package. 8.6Taste 8...Texture 8...Presentation 7. Chewy. Little mushy. Moist. flavored. 9.5Taste 10...Texture 9...Presentation 9. Very tasty! When you first taste it, blew me away! Best by far!! Don't need the sauce but great either way. 8.7Taste 9...Texture 8...Presentation 9. Winnah! Good flavor without sauce. 7.26 100%
#2
 Dong Yang (Wahiawa)
 8.8Taste 9...Texture 9...Presentation 8. The WINNAH! Taste, texture and sauce all good. 8.3Taste 9...Texture 10...Presentation 4. Meaty marinated meat, but not bland which caused dark color. Not burned, dark brown. 7.6Taste 8...Texture 8...Presentation 6. Thick pieces of meat, tender, tasty. Sauce was good. 8.9Taste 10...Texture 9...Presentation 6. Nice flavor combination of sauce and meat jun. 6.7Taste 7...Texture 6...Presentation 7. Bite size pieces of thicker meat. Significant amount of hard stuff in meat. Golden brown. 5.8Taste 7...Texture 7...Presentation 1. Taste better than it looks. Looks burnt and oily. 5.2Taste 5...Texture 7...Presentation 3. Looks like mochiko chicken. Not much taste, but good balance of meat and outside. 3.3Taste 5...Texture 2...Presentation 1. Really mushy. 7.8Taste 8...Texture 8...Presentation 7. Not bad. Taste is better than it looks. 7.3Taste 7...Texture 8...Presentation 7. 6.97 96.0%
#3
 Choi's Family Restaurant (King St.)
 4.5Taste 5...Texture 4...Presentation 4. Kinda tender meat but kinda chewy. Sauce has alcoholy flavor (not good). 7.9Taste 8...Texture 7...Presentation 9. Taste good. Lots of meat, soft, ono, still warm, mmm. Cabbage underneath nice touch. Nice, kinda crispy. 4.0Taste 4...Texture 4...Presentation 4. Chewy, pretty tasty. 4.4Taste 4...Texture 4...Presentation 6. 6.2Taste 6...Texture 6...Presentation 7. Gooey. 10.0Taste 10...Texture 10...Presentation 10. Don't need the sauce. Meat well marinated. 7.8Taste 8...Texture 8...Presentation 7. Looked eggy, but has the highest quality meat. 5.5Taste 5...Texture 6...Presentation 6. Eggy. Don't like sauce. 7.2Taste 7...Texture 7...Presentation 8. Tastes better without the sauce. 8.0Taste 8...Texture 8...Presentation 8. Sauce? 6.55 90.2%
#4 Seoul Korean Bbq (Wahiawa)
 1.7Taste 1...Texture 2...Presentation 3. Too sweet and sauce is like dressing, but meat is tender. 6.8Taste 7...Texture 7...Presentation 6. Little bit oily, but soft and tasty. Not bad. Looks dry, but good meat to batter ratio. 2.2Taste 1...Texture 3...Presentation 4. Too sweet. Sauce tasted like oriental dressing. 4.6Taste 4...Texture 4...Presentation 7. 5.7Taste 6...Texture 5...Presentation 6. Back bone of strong cabbage taste. 8.6Taste 9...Texture 9...Presentation 7. Meat is very tender. The sauce is really flavorful. 6.6Taste 7...Texture 7...Presentation 5. Not bad. Crust is slightly mushy. Looks sloppy. 6.2Taste 7...Texture 7...Presentation 3. Sweet sour sauce. Mushy. Thick. Very different. Bbq taste. 7.8Taste 8...Texture 8...Presentation 7. Sauce tastes like a little somen sauce. A better sauce would have made the meat jun better. 7.8Taste 8...Texture 8...Presentation 7. 5.80 79.9%
#5 Yummy's Korean Bbq (Dillingham)
 4.1Taste 4...Texture 5...Presentation 3. A little eggy but tender and meat has flavor and sauce is salty. 3.7Taste 2...Texture 3...Presentation 9. Flour batter, no taste, all shoyu sauce, oily. Neatly stacked, eggy yellow. 3.0Taste 3...Texture 3...Presentation 3. Batter tasted like pancake. 5.2Taste 5...Texture 5...Presentation 6. 6.0Taste 6...Texture 6...Presentation 6. 2.5Taste 3...Texture 2...Presentation 2. Looks burnt and the egg over powers the meat. 7.6Taste 7...Texture 9...Presentation 7. Pretty good, but sauce is just kikoman shoyu. What's up with that?? Probably has the best texture though. 6.4Taste 6...Texture 8...Presentation 5. Sauce too strong shoyu. Eggy. 8.0Taste 8...Texture 8...Presentation 8. Tasted ok. Sauce doesn't add too much at all. 6.0Taste 6...Texture 6...Presentation 6. 5.25 72.3%
#6 Soon's (Salt Lake)
 1.7Taste 2...Texture 1...Presentation 2. Texture is too tough. Not enough meat. Looks like katsu too heavy breading. Sauce too sweet. 4.9Taste 4...Texture 5...Presentation 7. Could taste flour in batter. Looks like katsu. Piled high. 3.2Taste 3...Texture 3...Presentation 4. Looks katsu like. Tasted too eggy. 4.4Taste 5...Texture 3...Presentation 5. Too tough. 6.5Taste 7...Texture 6...Presentation 6. Thin meat. Good batter. 7.3Taste 7...Texture 8...Presentation 7. Meat is too thin. 3.0Taste 3...Texture 3...Presentation 3. Dry. Too much crust. Looks like won ton. 4.8Taste 5...Texture 7...Presentation 1. Sweet sauce. Tough meat. Dry, not moist. 7.5Taste 8...Texture 7...Presentation 7. Texture is pretty rough, but taste is good. 6.2Taste 6...Texture 6...Presentation 7. Batter too chewy. 4.95 68.2%
#7 Sam's Delicatessen (Nuuanu)
 1.8Taste 2...Texture 2...Presentation 1. Too eggy. But sauce was actually ok. 1.2Taste 1...Texture 1...Presentation 2. Texture, feel, taste boring. 1.0Taste 1...Texture 1...Presentation 1. 9.0Taste 9...Texture 9...Presentation 9. Nicest presentation. 6.8Taste 7...Texture 7...Presentation 6. 5.1Taste 5...Texture 6...Presentation 4. Egg looks really yellow. 3.0Taste 3...Texture 3...Presentation 3. Too eggy. Little taste. 4.6Taste 5...Texture 3...Presentation 6. Very eggy. Good spicy sauce. 7.8Taste 8...Texture 8...Presentation 7. A little less meat, but tastes pretty good. 7.3Taste 7...Texture 8...Presentation 7. 4.76 65.6%
#8 Marukai Korean Bento (Control Entry)
 1.0Taste 1...Texture 1...Presentation 1. 4.1Taste 5...Texture 4...Presentation 2. Cold, no sauce, but meat was marinated. Not much. 2.0Taste 2...Texture 2...Presentation 2. Edible. Meat separated from batter. 6.4Taste 7...Texture 7...Presentation 4. No sauce, but meat jun was tasty. 5.0Taste 5...Texture 5...Presentation 5. 4.5Taste 3...Texture 6...Presentation 6. Although it doesn't look good, but the meat tasted very good. No sauce? What's up with dat? 6.3Taste 6...Texture 7...Presentation 6. Not bad. No sauce. Good balance between crust and meat. Looks sloppy. 2.5Taste 3...Texture 2...Presentation 2. No sauce. Eggy. Mushy. 5.7Taste 5...Texture 6...Presentation 7. No sauce, kind of strange after taste. 7.1Taste 7...Texture 8...Presentation 6. 4.46 61.4%
#9 J's Bbq - Soon's Decoy (Kakaako)
 0.2Taste 0...Texture 0...Presentation 1. 1.0Taste 1...Texture 1...Presentation 1. Chewy hard. Ginger sauce. Looks oily. 0.8Taste 1...Texture 1...Presentation 0. Thin meat pieces, separated from batter, dry. 5.0Taste 5...Texture 5...Presentation 5. 2.8Taste 2...Texture 2...Presentation 6. Thin eggy batter. Yellow in color. Thin meat. 5.7Taste 6...Texture 5...Presentation 6. Egg and meat doesn't mesh together and the meat is really thin. 2.7Taste 3...Texture 2...Presentation 3. Looks dried out. Too much crust not enough meat. 2.6Taste 2...Texture 2...Presentation 5. Dry tasting. Oily. 7.0Taste 7...Texture 7...Presentation 7. Sauce is very strong! Kind of spicy! 6.6Taste 7...Texture 7...Presentation 5. 3.44 47.4%