The Local Bite & Tropic Hunger Food Truck

Fantastic food! Got a rice bowl with the Kalua Pig and it was so freaking yummy. Even their rice was some of the best I've had. Staff is also super friendly and helped me pick which meat to go for.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

i grew up in honolulu, hawaii, so i was excited to see a business offering local hawaiian cuisine.

when i approached the food truck, i ordered a plate lunch and two spam musubis. while waiting, i made small talk with the woman taking my order and asked if she was from hawaii or had ever lived there. her immediate response was, “oh god no,” followed by an explanation that their food was “hawaiian-inspired” rather than authentic. she went on to say, “we don’t cook pigs in the ground or anything—we use a slow cooker.”

i didn’t know how to respond. how can a business with “tropic hunger” in its name serve hawaiian plate lunches and then have such a dismissive reaction to a simple question about ties to the culture? she didn’t even mention having visited hawaii.

her comment about not cooking pigs in the ground was especially baffling. does she think people in hawaii don’t use slow cookers or have modern appliances? this stereotype felt outdated and offensive. it left me wondering how someone with such little understanding of hawaiian culture could serve food inspired by it.

as for the food itself—it was disappointing. the mac salad, in particular, was one of the worst things i’ve ever tasted. overall, the experience was frustrating and off-putting.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

This is just a review for the food, the person there was cool. We are from the islands so we love to go anywhere that offers food from the pacific. This was a big let down. There was no flavor in any of the meat. We tried the katsu chicken and the hawaiian beef. The sauce they gave to go with it was quite literally just light soy sauce put into a tiny container. The masubi was like they just cut the spam up and put it on the rice. No seasoning on it and it wasn’t even fried down first. The mac salad was missing any and all seasonings. It looked like they just put mayonnaise with macaroni noodles.

Food: 2

Keep getting asked to review this place by Maps and since I'm tired of getting the notification I'm doing it! 3 stars because I can't get any more neutral of a rating than that.

Not a clue as to how the food was as we never got the chance to eat here. We picked it as a lunch spot since we were in the Tri Cities area while on a road trip. We pulled up to its location at 11:30am on Friday. Not open, at all. So we left and had lunch elsewhere. The only review I can reasonably leave is a suggestion call the number to make sure they're open before driving there to discover they're not, we were disappointed, but understand that with local food trucks/trailers like this hours can change at the drop of a hat, or workers can call in with no one left to cover. If we're in the area again we'll probably give it another try as all the reviews (who got food) rave about how good it is!

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Amazing overall, never had a better experience at a food truck in my entire life.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Amazing overall, never had a better experience at a food truck in my entire life.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Had the Spam Musubi and the Shoyu chicken. Both were excellent and at good price with short waits. Overall excellent.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Best food truck in town, it should be a sin to make food this good! Katsu chicken and the Mac salad is perfection. Along with everything else. Great service and they are always pretty quick.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Delicious, consistent, unique. My two year old LOVES the Katsu Chicken so much she cries out whenever we drive past the truck!

I love the shoyu chicken plate and Mac salad! my kids love the spam musubi :) they are always fast and super sweet! fav food truck!

The Hawaiian food was OK. Just not the taste I’m used to. You know that feeling when you eat somewhere and need to go back? (Think fresh out the box or fat cat) This wasn’t that place for me. I won’t be back and that tells me all I need to know. Service was great, though. Clean place, nice people.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Delicious! I'm so glad there's a place here in Kennewick that serves Hawaiian food. Kalua pig, Shoyu Chicken, Mac salad, Spam musubi. All so good. I could eat here everyday! Thank you so much!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Extraordinary customer service and I haven’t tried anything I didn’t like here yet. The Hawaiian plates are amazing. Meat is tender and delicious. You can’t go wrong here.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Jalapeno Popper Grilled Cheese

The food here was amazing!!! The woman working in the truck was soo nice as well!

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Bacon Mac Grilled Cheese

I have been to the Local Bite a few times and loved it all. I’ve tried the jalapeño grilled cheese and another grilled cheese too. I’ve the wrap with one kind of of meat and the macaroni salad on the side. Recently I order the plate with katsu chicken, rice and Mac salad. All of these items are crave-worthy. Today’s plate was just incredible. Highly recommend.