Located in the heart of Honolulu’s Chinatown, The Pig and The Lady is a trendy Vietnamese restaurant churning out inventive dishes bursting with unique and complex flavors on a menu of rotating items. While the lunch menu offers a raved about pho French dip sandwich, we went for dinner and got to try the newly added citrus cured kona kampachi that was garnished with bitter grapefruit coated in sweet plum powder (Li ping) and mint. Their standout sausage surrounded an octopus tentacle with lemongrass pork, swimming in a fish sauce based sauce and covered with fresh mint, dill & coriander.
They regularly change the variations of pho served – we got to enjoy a delicious duck pho with a cured egg yolk and thicker rice verimicelli noodles that had a much better texture than you’d find at standard Vietnamese spots. Save room for dessert, including their Sunday Funday which offers rotating flavors of soft serve in a waffle cone, finished with “chocolate magic crack” at the table.
Eat this: ahi tuna tataki toasts, citrus cured kampachi (seasonal), octopus sausage, pho (changes regularly), pork chop, semifreddo, Sunday Funday
