The Grand Palace Chinese Restaurant is one of five restaurants at the King’s Shop – having tried two others, it was a logical choice. It wasn’t a particularly good one, however.
The small restaurant is rather nondescript, it does have a small fish tank that kept Mika amused, however. Its very extensive menu includes most of the standard dishes served at Chinese restaurants in the US, and has a particularly large seafood section. Most dishes seemed to average around $10. Portions weren’t very big, which is not an issue when you are staying at a hotel and don’t want leftovers anyway.
We started with an appetizer of fried wontons, these were crisp and not too oily and came with your standard sweet & sour sauce. They were by far the highlight of our dinner.
I ordered the beef with ginger and green onions and wasn’t too pleased with it. The main problem was the consistency of the meat, it was obviously a cheap but of meat that had been pounded and probably MSGd into a tender but too weird consistency. Indeed, it was not unlike the beef you often get with chow mein, but it just didn’t work as the star of the dish. The taste was OK but unremarkable.
We also weren’t thrilled with the BBQ pork chow mein we ordered. Now, chow mein is not an easy dish to get wrong, but here it was too insipid and the ingredient actually managed not to blend well. Another disappointment.
Service was competent, but the food not good enough to make it worth going.
Grand Palace Chinese Restaurant
King’s Shops
250 Waikoloa Beach Drive
Waikoloa
(808) 886-6668
11:00 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.
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