Nori's Saimin & Snacks. - Hilo

Eating was just good, but menu items not on items we wanted so chicken and beef no pig. Please get them, I know the prices are higher and only try to keep the price low, but please we all buy when the prices are a bit higher and articles are available!!!

Aloha, I have my new salt supply just in time. Nori?s salt is the best! Also this time I got lemon peel Li Hing Gummy?s. Holy cow! You're the bomb! Small pieces of lemon peel. Mahalo

We wanted to like this place. There is no denial that it is popular. But in the end? I don't know why. The portions are generous. This is probably the main reason why people come here. I had the teri loco moco. My balls were super under. The teri sauce was thin and too sweet. Mac salad was all mayonnaise. We also had the Saimin. It was Bland. We expected it to be lunch meat, but lunch meat, noodles, and a tasteless broth are all you get. And it took 45 minutes from the time we ordered until our food was brought out.

We wanted to try Loco Moco since it?s so often raved about and this one wasn?t too bad! I enjoyed the gravy and the egg was cooked to what I said. The Korean combination was the best dish; the meat was flavored strongly without much or any visible sauce! Everything else was a bit disappointing; the garlic butter shrimp noodles didn?t have much taste and the soba was bland also. Their best dishes seem to be few. I highly recommend the Chocolate Mochi Cake as a not-too-sweet dessert!

Great ambience and friendly service. Mainly locals and very little tourists. Unfortunately, the food wasn?t stellar. The broth on both of our saimins were salty to the point where we barely ate our soups. The chicken stick was dry, tough and too sweet. The corn bites were decent. The musubi is tad bit overpriced for a clump of mushy rice and a strip of nori.