Hibachi&company

The vegetables are crisp, the rice is freshly cooked and every order is cooked to order. Can this be fast food? At Hibachi & Company it is. This casual restaurant is building a loyal following in Fuquay-Varina area by serving healthy and tasty Japanese food in a flash to people looking for a refuge from burgers and fries, or the other fast food places in town. Hibachi with rice or noodles flies out of the kitchen almost as fast as orders are placed. You know theyre fresh because you can watch the cooks put them together in the open kitchen just behind the counter. Although the restaurant maybe small but portions are large and prices are low, Entree prices from $5.59 and a daily $5.50 lunch special. This is fast food thats as good for your wallet as it is your conscience.Davids family built Hibachi & Company on the corner of Broad Street and Judd Pkwy in the same building with Krispy Kreme about a year ago. The place is painted in bright orange. Its an airy, cheerful setting with booths, tables and bar tables by the window, which can seat up to 60.On the wall is a menu of dishes that can be cooked with teriyaki sauce or hibachi sauce to reflect authentic Japanese Teppanyaki cooking. You can also choose to have your dish with noodles.The vegetables are cut every three hours and all day long, all the sauces are made right here in the store. Nothing served here comes in a can. The carrots were slow simmered in house for hours to give them the rich taste and delicate texture. Dishes only using white meat chicken and lean rib-eye steak are cooked to order. Succulent shrimps are always cooked just right, not too soft or too tough. The basic dish is a rice plate topped with grilled chicken, shrimp or steak and slightly crunchy zucchini and mushrooms cooked with soy-ginger based hibachi sauce with sweet carrots. Or you can have it with broccoli and zucchini cooked in sweet teriyaki sauce. All the plates come with very good and plentiful white sauce.