New restaurant opens in Reidsville
Published: July 5, 2009
Reidsville residents with an appetite for Hibachi shrimp and steak can satisfy their cravings at a new restaurant in town. Rakki Japanese Restaurant opened its doors about a month ago. The restaurant is located at 306 N. Scales St., just below the monument in downtown Reidsville.
Robinson Pham, a Vietnamese man who makes his home in Winston-Salem, is the owner of Rakki Japanese Restaurant. Cong Tran, also Vietnamese, helps Pham run the Japanese restaurant. The restaurant sells “100 percent Japanese” food, according to Tran, and specializes in Hibachi dishes.
Hibachi chicken, steak, shrimp and scallops are all on the dinner menu. Hibachi dishes are all served with Hibachi vegetables – mushrooms, zucchini and onions – and fried rice.
The restaurant also offers teriyaki dishes for a small additional charge. Dinner plates are served with hot sauce, ginger sauce, mustard sauce and Rakki’s special white sauce. Tony Ho, the in-house chef, cooks the Hibachi dishes on the grill and sprinkles the food with Oriental seasonings such as Sriracha (a hot chili sauce), fish sauce, oyster sauce, sesame and fried garlic.
The restaurant offers lunch specials, such as chicken and mushrooms, during the week. The restaurant also offers serves up a soup made from mushrooms, green onions and chicken broth and salad with the house dressing, made from sesame oil and onion. Tran said the restaurant tries to keep the prices low because of the weak economy.
Rakki Japanese Restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday for lunch and dinner. The restaurant is closed on Sundays.
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Looking forward to trying this new place. Reidsville definitely needs more variety and NO MORE pizza joints! I just ‘discovered’ TALK of the TOWN GRILL, located at 3585 Vance Street Extension between Wentworth and Reidsville (small white building with gravel parking lot, easy to miss).
A health department inspector said it’s one of the cleanest kitchens he’s ever inspected even though the location is a hole in the wall. There’s a line out the door at dinnertime even though the restaurant does no advertising. They have the usual soul food plus oddities for our area like alligator, crawfish, frog legs, rabbit, etc. However, they are most famous for their hot wings. The owner told me that everything is cooked from scratch, nothing canned or frozen. I picked up a menu - open for lunch and dinner, closed Sundays and Mondays. Can’t wait to go back again!
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