Located at 2224 Golden Gate Drive in the Golden Gate Shopping Center in Greensboro, Qinji HawaiianBBQ and Ramen offers Hawaiian and Japanese cuisine for lunch and dinner. It is open from 11-9 Tuesday-Friday, noon-9 on Saturday, and closed Sunday. Online ordering is available.
Our group of four ended up at Qinji when the wait at Mizumi proved too long, but this proved to be the epitome of a happy accident. Cosmetically, Qinji is quite an upgrade from the previous ZC Hawaiian: the interior is tasteful and clean. The menu boasts many tantalizing options from predominantly Japanese apps to more than ten kinds of ramen to rice and noodle dishes to Hawaiian specialties. Vegetarians won’t be hard-pressed to find something here though the meat-eaters among you can take in everything from kalbi to Spam.
It was the
first visit for all of us, and we got to experience a variety of dishes:
calamari, Takoyaki, spam musubi, veggie roll, Hawaiian pineapple chicken, loco
moco, and a combo (katsu fried shrimp and fish and grilled beef). Portions were
plentiful, and, as the entrees included rice and salad (green or macaroni) for
under $15, quite affordable. While the musubi and the loco moco may conjure
some odd associations for anyone who grew up with Spam or Salisbury steak, the
food was largely a hit. The beef was flavorful, the seafood was well-breaded
without being bone dry, and the dipping sauces complemented the apps nicely.
Even though the green salad was little more than lettuce with a few shredded
carrots, a terrific mango dressing (bright, crisp, and citrusy) elevated it.
Qinji is nowhere close to home, and while that may preclude me from becoming a
regular here, it is definitely a place I will look forward to coming back to
during future excursions to northern Greensboro.
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