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Thursday, January 20, 2011

MAMA'S HAWAIIAN BBQ - TUCSON, AZ

This restaurant recently opened on Speedway between Euclid and Park. Its a very big and plain building with a few surfboards on the walls and a shelf of bamboo and out of focus and poorly colored pictures of some of their food. If i relied on these pictures to inform me as to the quality of their food, i'd have walked right out of the place. The photos are singularly unappealing.

but fortunately, i didn't look at them. and the food is really good. You go up to the counter and order. For $7 i got their Hawaiian pork which is really pulled pork with an enticing and aromatic flavor and 2 volcano sized mounds of white rice which i doused with their slightly sweet teriyaki sauce and a serving of macaroni salad which i enjoyed more than A.J.'s (which i had just bought a few days before and its way way too mayonaise-y.) The portion of meat was large.

bill had some special beef short ribs; 3 or 4 slabs. He loved them. and his entree was $8 and also was accompanied by white rice and macaroni salad. We certainly will be back; just the perfect place for after a hike when i don't want to sit in a restaurant for a long time. I think on our next visit i'll try their chicken katsu.

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