k a d o m o t o: Hilo

We didn't have much time to do anything else in Hilo except baseball, but we did manage to eat at some pretty good places. Usually when we go to the Big Island, we stay on the Kona side and sometimes drive over to Hilo for the day. So we really never get to do anything in Hilo except drive through it. The last time we were there, we did get to go to the Hilo Zoo, which was surprisingly good, especially the white tiger.
So anyway, while we were in Hilo for the baseball tournament, we found several good places to eat. The first place that we went to was the Kuhio Grille for breakfast. Breakfast was great, I really liked the fried rice....just the way I like it, some spam and egg and no green onions. I also heard that the loco moco and desserts were really good there as well.

We found this place called Hi-Ho Mongolian Grill. This place is exactly the same as the Big Wok restaurant that we went to in California. We were introduced to the Big Wok by my sister and brother-in-law (thanks guys, that place rocked). Hi-Ho was exactly the same. It has a huge round stone that they cook the food on. You basically fill a bowl with raw meat, vegetables, noodles, and sauces and they cook it up for you on the hot stone. I forgot to take a pic of the cooks, but it's a very cool setup and the food tasted great.

We had one of our dinners at the Seaside Restaurant. The cool thing about this restaurant is that they have an aqua farm out back where I believe they grow a lot of the seafood that they serve.
I usually don't eat fish, but since this was a seafood joint, I figured I should give one a try. I ordered a grilled salmon that was on the Specials menu. It was prepared just the way I liked it...a nicely grilled, crunchy crust and soft and moist on the inside. It also had a really tasty mushroom cream sauce. Another thing that stood out was the bread. I think it was a sour dough type roll, but it had a slightly sweet flavor to it.

Here's a picture of the Koi fishpond that they had out back. And no, I don't think that they serve the Koi.

Some of the other places that we went to were:

Ken's House of Pancakes - probably needed to go here several more times since the menu filled over 5 pages.

Don's Grill - was ok, I had the pork adobo, which I liked

Two Ladies Kitchen for mochi

Tournament concession stand - had to have at least one loco moco in Hilo...I didn't think I'd have a chance to get one before I left. But this one was still pretty good.