The Polu Kai Grill = not hawaiian food
Polu Kai
polu kai from click the city
Friday night after meeting up with OT for an intro to scuba in Makati we met up with friends at Serendra. After wanting to try this Hawaiian restaurant even though reviews online said they had bad service I wanted to try what I haven’t had anywhere in the Philippines. KALUA PIG. I have been searching far and wide for this tradition Hawaiian luau cuisine for it is a stable like poi is to Hawaiian food. I always thought it aint a Hawaiian joint if aint got Kalua pig.
I have tried most of the Hawaiian restaurants here in the Philippines leaving always in disappointment. I have been to Hawaii countless times pushing over 15 trips at points 4 times a year and have become accustom to Hawaiian cuisine and culture. Even in my homeland of Anchorage, AK I frequent the local Hawaiian restaurant Hula Hands which serves mix plates of huge servings and authentic taste. Now back to the Philippines, the menu at asdfasdf is huge with a variety of options but 80 percent of it not being Hawaiian and the rest being fusion food at best.
This restaurant, as most restaurants here in the Philippines put pineapple on their food and then they call it Hawaiian. I’m sorry but pineapple does not make anything necessarily Hawaiian cuisine. The Kalua pig was sautéed/fried. It’s supposed to be slow roasted pork smoked. Not pan cooked. It tasted like local Filipino food at an atrocious price. It was practically “lechon kawali” so my opinion was man this place is terrible. Service was mediocre, granted we sat outside it was still bad since inside was empty. The servers did not attentively help our group of 9.
Final recommendation.
Don’t expect Hawaiian food!
Putting pineapple does not make it Hawaiian!
Order anything other than their Hawaiian food
Service Stinks
Prices 250-800 a meal
Ground Level
Serendra Piazza
Mc Kinley Parkway, Fort Bonifacio
Bonifacio Global City
Taguig, Metro Manila
Phone Number: 901-1841, 856-0355
