Umami's Bosses' Day Lunch

Umami works in an office with the best staff in the world (and he's not just saying that because they read this blog)! For Bosses' Day, they took the attorney staff out to lunch to Hale Ikena ("House with a View"), which is a casual restaurant at Fort Shafter. It's run by the U.S. Army's Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation.  For lunch, it does a pretty nice buffet . . . this is what we had:

Lunch Buffet includes Salad Bar, Soup of the day, Dinner Rolls, Baked Idaho Potato with Sour Cream, Crispy Bacon Bits, Chopped Chives or Green Onions and melted Cheddar Cheese.  Top off your buffet with Ice Cream Sundae Bar and the Chef’s selection of Fresh Fruits or Dessert

Friday 10/15/10
Taco Beef
Fajita Chicken
Spanish Rice/Refried Beans
Flour Tortilla and Taco Shell w/Condiments
Fajita Vegetables

The soup of the day was Tortilla Soup, very tasty bean and tortilla flavor.  Not too much heat, though.  For that, Umami had to go for the salads!

Clockwise from top, macaroni salad (under the bacon bits), potato salad (also under the bacon bits), a blob of sour cream (intended for the tacos . . .  it was easier to just spoon it out onto a plate than to spread it on a taco), spanish rice, jalapenos, and kim chee.  Umami was surprised that the kim chee actually had some heat!  And the jalapenos were also on the fiery side (sometimes they're almost sweet).  A happy accident also occurred when the sour cream got mixed into the potato salad and bacon; it was like a baked potato salad!

Underneath all of this lettuce are two chicken tacos, with refried beans, cheese, salsa, tomato, and onion.   It was an interesting buffet, since it everyone that goes through bottlenecks at the taco toppings.  Fortunately, our buffet captain, Lushus, let us go first, so the line was not bad at all!  It didn't look like a lot of food, but Umami was so full that he passed on dessert!

It was a fun lunch . . . good food and good company.  Only problem is:  how will we top this for Administrative Professionals' Day??

Hale Ikena

Bldg 711, Morton Drive

Fort Shafter, Hawaii 96858-5000

Telephone: (808) 438-6712