1030 Smith St
Honolulu, HI 96817
(808) 537-6858
DMSC: First of all, I have to get this out of the way. There were maggots in the rice. Stupid us, we ate on anyway. It is now 4 days later and none of us are dead or sick. At least I don't think APOO is dead or sick, though she is in Colorado right now.APOO: I am not dead, thanks for asking :)
DMSC: There used to be a guy that worked with us, who liked to eat at this place (he has since retired). He used to tell us that he found roaches in his food, but he never got sick. Being that neither APOO nor IG worked with him, I should have been the one to heed the warning.
APOO: Well, even with the roach warning, I went to Ken Fong with my fiancee prior to this horrible encounter with maggots. I didn't tell him but that time we went, there was an ant in the beef stew. I figure, ants are no big deal right?
DMSC: I don't think I can even blog about this place, I'm so disgusted. Anyway, here's the sign for the stupid restaurant. I hope if you are from the Department of Health, you are filing a report.
DMSC: And here's the interior of the restaurant. It
looks clean. If only I could have gotten a picture of the kitchen.
APOO: I think the kitchen looks like that cave in Indiana Jones with all the scorpions and other creepy crawlers, yuck!
DMSC: Our rice came out first. IG took his rice, then I took mine, then APOO took hers (so much for chivalry, but hey, she's one of the guys). As APOO was scooping her rice out, she says "eewww look - there's a worm in here." IG and I didn't even notice it. Now, I've seen maggots before, and they didn't look like this little guy. Plus, he was not wiggling, that was a good sign (if there are any good signs related to having maggots in your rice).
APOO: Thanks for treating me like a bro DMSC! But, I'll pass on the bromance, ha! About the maggot, I think I saw one like this little guy the previous week in a strawberry that I bought from Costco. So disgusting. And here at Ken Fong, we meet again. What is up with me and bugs! I am not even remotely related to them.
DMSC: So being that this seemed to be the only one, we soldiered forward and continued to eat. Stupid us.
APOO: As much as I wanted to stop eating, I needed to be brave like DMSC and IG so I followed their lead. Stupid THEM! You should've seen IG. He ate the rice without one though of disgust, like he had eaten worms and maggots all his life. So brave!
DMSC: So then we got our food. This is the chicken with snow peas. The chicken tasted barely cooked, as did the onions. Not good. And the overall taste was bland. Or maybe my taste buds were tricked by the fact that I was
probably eating maggots.
APOO: Wasn't your taste buds, the dish was super bland. The taste of uncooked chicken was even worse. Think of all the bacteria we were eating, besides the maggots! Sorry, not to make things even worse that it already was.
DMSC: Here is another dish that sucked. It was supposed to be tofu and mushroom in a pot. It tasted like they stir fried it and threw it in the pot, not like they actually cooked it in the pot. Now, I hope that I don't sound like my opinions are skewed because of the maggots. This dish really
did suck. Adding soy sauce helped a little.
APOO: I take responsibility for ordering this dish. I had ordered something similar at Ruby and it tasted really yummy. On the contrary, this dish was BAD. The rice tasted even better, well, without the maggots of course.
DMSC: The last dish was not bad. This one was beef with choi sum on chow funn.
APOO: Good job IG, again, for ordering something that we can actually eat and bug free.
DMSC: After we finished eating, APOO started digging through the uneaten rice, when we found the brother of the little guy we found earlier. This time, he was squarely IN the rice. So there must have been more. Possibly ingested. By us. But again, on the plus side, he was not alive, so that was a good sign.
APOO: Wait, on second thought, I think it was moving. It was probably saying, "You ate my brother. I am going to come back and haunt you!"
DMSC: And not to belabor the point, but here are the two little guys in a condiment dish.
APOO: Why you gotta take them back to work, all squished, and show them to everyone. So disgustin just thinking about it now.
DMSC: I'm sorry if I made you quesy by posting all of these pictures, but just typing this made me want to throw up. My restaurant rating will reflect this. Needless to say, I will NEVER EVER eat here again. My lunch partners might have a different opinion though (IG didn't seem to be deterred much). And in case you were wondering, we didn't report it to the restaurant owners - I don't know why. I think we were just too freaked out.
APOO: Thanks to DMSC for buying us cookies at Great Harvest afterwards. I didn't want the maggot aftertaste so I needed to eat something sweet. Then stupid IG and DMSC said the maggots love sweets and they will propagate even faster in sugar. Grrr!
APOO: I have only been to this place once and that was when Elise from our work decided to leave us FOREVER! I may be exaggerating a tiny bit but she did leave to work somewhere else. Oh and did I mention, our fourth lunch co-hort, who stopped having lunch with the group because his life was cut short by a bizarre gardening accident, sprung back to life and came to lunch with us? Wow, I felt special to be eating with a zombie.
APOO: One of the reasons I like Indigo is their food selection. The buffet table is COLORFUL! However, unlike the typical buffet, there are servers to put food on your plate so you can't control the size of each portion, which DMSC doesn't like. We all ended up with huge plates with huge portions of everything and those that we didn't want, and we had to force ourselves to stuff our faces until our tummies explode. Luckily, the food was healthy.
APOO: Here's a sample plate. Since I am no Indian, I have no clue what I ate except the general terms like fish, noodles, mushrooms, tomatoes, fried wonton skin, and salad. Oh oh I know, I ate humus too and that bread that goes with it. Ok, maybe DMSC and IG can help me out with the name of each dish.
APOO: I believe we all liked the food and were super full. I also like the conversation we had, with all that "smart-a$$" talk between DMSC and IG. And our zombie's story of "A Rat's Blood", ooooooo, exhilarating! Thank you all for celebrating with me :)
