Red Rice

We had the fiesta plates, spam musubi, Latiya, shrimp kelaguin and lumpia. Everything was great! We will definitely come back when we’re in town again.

Fantastic service. Place is really clean. The food is absolutely fantastic! I’ve had the rice, ribs and chicken. Would recommend them all.
The only reason I’m taking a star off is bc I wish the portions were bigger

Hafa Adai! Felt like I was back in Guam. I had the Hafa Adai plate with red rice, bbq ribs and chicken, and of course kilawin. Very affordable and lots of food! Go hungry! I miss Guam and this place brought many memories back.

Nothing but love for this place. Lots of protein and their red rice is so addicting! My favorite is the fiesta plate for those gains! Comes with bbq beef, bbq chicken, bbq pork, lumpia, chicken kelaguen, and a shrimp patty on red rice! Though it’s very similar and from the pacific, it’s still a nice little change from Hawaiian or Filipino food.

I will definitely be coming back to this place every time I come to Vegas. The food is absolutely amazing! My boyfriend got their Fiesta plate and I got their Kelaguen sampler. Both were delicious. We also got their Red Rice masubi which is so good! Their customer service is beyond incredible. Thank you Red Rice family! I will be coming back soon.

Our first time here… I’ve had Guamanian (Chomorro) food in past…
We were excited to have found a Guamanian (Chomorro) food. My fiancé grew up in Guam before relocating back to the United States, so he missed having island food. But our excitement came to end…
We ordered:
1 Fiesta Plate Combo and 1 Hafa Adai Plate Combo…
–The red rice was way too oily. It was also missing the green onions in it — everyone makes it differently but adding some green onions, bacon bits, and green peas to it makes it real Guamanian (Chomorro) food.
–The BBQ chicken on both plates were dried.
— The empanada was burnt — the shell was too hard and had a burnt taste to it.
–The cucumber Fina Dene was missing the diakon (Diago).
— The chicken kelaguen was dried, where was the coconut in this?
–The one piece of rib on each plate was good.
— The shrimp pattie was too dark in color on the outside but when opened it looks undercooked.
–The red rice musubi, was disgusting. I don’t see what the hype is regarding the musubi.
–Fina Dene was plain, no flavor. You can taste the soy sauce more than anything in this.
–The red pepper sauce (Donne dinanche) was also plain. We thought it would be spicy, but turned out plain, no spicy to it.
Overall, our food was OK. Not the best, but just OK. One star for bringing the culture to vegas and one star for the decorations and friendliness. Wished we could’ve had a better experience, but hopefully with time, they can improve their food service. Thank you Red Rice for serving us.

Came here after a co worker suggested I try this place… It was delicious! My boyfriend and I shared a fiesta plate which came with pork ribs, steak, chicken, lumpia, and shrimp pattie on a bed of red rice (which was soooo good) and also sides of cucumber that had been soaked in (I think) soy sauce and vinegar and a chicken salad type dish. We also ordered a red rice musabi which was really flavorful! I will definitely be coming back here for more!

Hafa Adai… I love Guamanian cooking and was pleased to hear another Chamorro restaurant had opened along Eastern. I really loved the other Guamanian restaurant that was in the area a few years ago. I even became friends with one of the owners even though I was an out of towner. Sadly it closed up shop a while back and I’ve been missing the cooking ever since.
We flew in from the Los Angeles area on the first flight of a rain soaked Las Vegas morning. We got there a little after they opened and was stuck on the menu for a little while before we were approached by a young man for our order. I had the hafa adai plate which came with bbq chicken, bbq spare rib, empanada, chicken kelaguen, cucumber fina dene and that red rice ($ 11.95). It was a huge meal. A tasty one at that. The red rice was great. There was plenty of it. The bbq chicken was good. I liked it. The bbq spare rib was very good. I could have another of those easily. The empanada was so good. It was different from what I typically know as an empanada. It was deep fried and was filled with tasty, stewed meat. The chicken kelaguen is cooked in lemon juice and coconut milk. It’s served cold. The fact that it was cold took me a while to get used to but the flavors are good. It has a very strong flavor. I loved the cucumber fina dene. I could eat that every day. So good. Pickled cucmber deliciousness. This plate is big and can easily be shared by 2 people. I recommend it.
I loved the red rice musubi ($ 2.95). It comes with red rice, furikake, daikon, spam of course and a spicy sauce. It was so good. Loved the taste combination and red rice in a musubi?!? My mind was blown. It took spam musubis to another level.
We also ordered a breaded shrimp plate ($ 8.75) which came with 2 scoops of red rice and potato salad. And as a treat to our friends that were stuck at Bellagio with their kids and couldnt make it to Red Rice, we brought them all back red rice musubis. They loved it. Even my godsons ate them up. So the red rice musubis were definitely a hit.
In eating at Red Rice, I felt at home and that’s a big a compliment I can give any place that serves any type of islander cuisine whether it be Filipino, Hawaiian or Chamorro cooking. They play island reggae and that is the type of music I want to hear when I’m eating that kind of food… I also met the owner, the patriarch of the family. He was very gracious and we had a good conversation. He told me how he loved cooking and grilling for family and friends and the choice was made to try and make it a business. He said that everyone in the family had a hand in the restaurant and I have to respect that. I wished him and the business much success and told him I would spread the word and make sure to stop by every time I’m in town… Gotta have that Red Rice!

Hafa Adai! Was looking for a place to eat dinner and found Red Rice on Unilocal.I have never had Guam (Guaminian?) food so this was a first and didn’t know what to expect. The place is located in a small plaza next to other larger plazas. I am not from Vegas so I relied on Google Maps to find this place as well. The place has a handful of booths and a larger table near the front. Looks like it is family-​owned where the family is bringing their culture and food to the Vegas. I ordered the Fiesta Plate and an order of the Red Rice Musubi. The Fiesta Plate has a little of everything. BBQ beef, BBQ chicken, a rib, an eggroll (lumpia?), some type of minced pork, and marinated cucumbers over a bed of red rice. The meats were OK. The beef was really tough. The chicken was kind of fatty. The rib was OK… Of the meats, I enjoyed the marinated minced pork. It reminded me of what you would call larb at a Thai restaurant. The rice is made with achote seed to get the color and flavor. I felt the rice was overcooked and was a bit mushy for my liking. The achote seed is supposed to provide color and a hint of flavor and that was correct. The color looked great and it looked like it would pack a punch but it didn’t have much flavor. For $ 14, it was enough food for 2 people who aren’t extremely hungry. As for the red rice musubi, the rice again felt a bit mushi. The spam was fried and marinated in a sweet sauce. There was some sort of sauce in the middle which added some moisture to the seaweed and spam. It, like the Fiesta Plate, was OK. Nothing too special. The red rice didn’t add much other than making it look more appetizing.
The meal was OK. The service was friendly and helpful but in all, the whole experience was just OK because of the food. Remember to check in for a free fountain drink. I might come back to try the other dishes but I wasn’t particularly impressed by the meal…

Hello and welcome to Red Rice. We walked in and were greeted at the counter by Carla. Carla is very friendly and a great story teller. So as a caveat to my dining at Red Rice, y wife’s family is Chamorran and I have had some amazing food similar to what is served here. I may be biased to some of the flavors of her family recipes. We got the Fiesta Plate, Empenada and red rice Musubi. The BBQ beef on the plate had decent flavor but not very BBQ from my experience. Short rib was good and chicken tender and full of good flavor. Chicken Keleguen was really close to Josie’s family minus the Coconut. (Would not keep well id it had that). Red Rice Musubi was really good had pickled Daikon in middle adding great bold taste and also a little bite that came back on the palate. The Empenada was really good also having a bit of heat to it.
Thank You for dining at Red Rice. We will go back. There was a plaque on the wall that had my wife’s family name on it. I’m sure some distant cousin in some way. That is a whole other story. Staff is friendly, food was good. It’s not a fancy place but who needs that for a great affordable meal. Please check this place out you will not be sorry.

Born and raised in Dededo Guam671!!!
Love it and come back every other week or so lol

No competition in food from Guam, but this place is very friendly and the food is delicious. Ordered the 2 combo plates and potato salad.
The chicken meat was cooked to perfection. The ribs were so tasty: reminds me of lupcheong flavor.
The shrimp patty, egg roll, empanada were all tasty.
Red rice rules and the potato salad I loved.
We will go back.

Never had a tast of Guam Til I tried this place ! Excellent portion of food and very tender & juicy. This place is great, would go back here soon again.

I was going to go to the Poke place two doors down when I saw the signs of a Guam restaurant. I’ve never had Guam food and really had no idea what the cuisine was like so we changed plans and decided to go in. The person at the register was probably 15 or 16 but he was really patient with us as we asked him to explain various things on the menu. We were a little unclear with our order and ended up with the breaded shrimp appetizer instead of the breaded shrimp plate. When we asked what was what (because we actually didn’t know), the cook (and likely owner) immediately understood the confusion and cooked us a breaded shrimp plate as well.
All in all we had the breaded shrimp appetizer: radish, shrimp wrapped in red rice and then wrapped in seaweed. We might have ordered it by accident but it was the best thing we had.
Octopus — cold octopus in a lemon sauce. Very delicious. Lots of octopus too. Would definitely order it again.
Breaded shrimp platter — 4 lovely deep fried and breaded shrimp. A bed of delicious red rice and a cucumber salad. I believe that this actually comes with potato salad normally but I was happy to have cucumbers instead.
Eggplant Salad — sort of like a less smokey version of babba ganosh. Very delicious, and nice flavor.
Cucumber and radish kimchi salad. Only a little bit tasting like kimchi, more like a sweet daikon radish. I like this a lot and would recommend it in a heart beat.
Beignets with a mango sauce. The cook (owner?) brought these out to us just so that we could try them. I didn’t even see them on the menu but they were delicious. A nice sweet sauce.
Ambiance is a bit dinerish but it’s clean and well lit.
A really different and delicious meal with very gracious and kind owners who were more than happy to help guide two people who had no idea what they were doing through the foods of Guam. A really great experience.

My boyfriend was in town for a wedding and, in between the ceremony and the reception, he brought some Red Rice back to the hotel. He raved about the food and although I had already eaten somewhere else, he made sure to save me some so that I could see where he was coming from. I came back to the hotel to a spam musubi, breaded calamari (or was it fish? I can’t remember) musubi, chicken kelaguen, red rice and cucumber finadene.
Ok so I know I said I had just eaten but the food smelled so good I had to take a bite. That bite led to more bites and then I somehow I ended up finishing his food. Oops! It was that good… The red rice, chicken kelaguen and the cucumber complimented each other really well! The citrus flavors of the kelaguen plus the soy sauce/​vinegar flavors of the finadene really brought out the subtle flavor of the red rice. I’m salivating just thinking of it.
It was so good that boyfriend and I came back together the next day as a farewell meal before we headed back to Cali. Los Angeles really needs to open up a Chamorro restaurant!

There aren’t that many places to get Guam food in the mainland. I would think that by now, most locals from Guam would know of this place and add it to their list of must-​haves when in Vegas. So… this review is mainly meant for those who have never heard of or had any Guam food. Bottom line:
The bbq taste is going to be different than probably any you’ve had. But, will you like it?! Not kidding, you will probably LOVE it regardless of which may you choose. It’s that distinct soy sauce and lemony combo.
And if you don’t love or at least like it, then at least you can say you tried something new, right?
A side note — locals like to congregate and talk. It’s an island thing… just let them be. :-)

Our friend originally from Guam took us here in hopes of getting authentic good from his home. Red Rice definitely hit the mark, and for the rest of us made for a really good «island» lunch. Strange as it might sound, their red rice spam musubi is awesome, we got extras to take back to the hotel… glad we did, made for a good midnight snack! Their fiesta plate is huge, quite the ‘bento’ combo, it was enough for my wife and I to share.
A little south of the LAS airport, along a street with every possible strip mall business ;-)

Out here this week for another family gathering. My family decided to try this place out again. This time was fair.
Let’s say they have been open over a year an they still use a banner sign in front of the business. We were hoping for more décor improvements to represent Guam. Inside was much better made us feel like everything from back home was represented well.
But all the other business around have nice outdoor sign of business logo & name. I think they should invest in a nice red rice sign outside like the other business around them.
The wait for a to go call still took 25 – 30 minutes we called in the worker who answered said 15 – 20 but when we got there took another 10 – 15 minutes so total of ½ an hour. Food was cold so we microwaved our food.
I ordered the chicken plate again it was better this time not as dry & more flavor still char broiled but that was ok. I still can taste the other meats that they must cook their meats on the same grill or use the same utensils because I can taste beef when I’m a chicken eater. The rice wasn’t mushy this time it was bland but better not a wet & uncooked like last time. The cucumbers were a little soggy & bitter but it’s probably was soaking to long I prefer my cucumbers crisp I know some Chamorros like it marinated longer so my cousin ate the rest of my cucumbers.
Masubi was still not my cup of tea but it’s so hyped up I had to try it again. I just can’t really get the red rice & wrap but that’s ok the kids liked it.
We tried their corn soup it was not thick a little runny but seasoned well just needed a little more corn starch to make it thick.
Empanadas hasn’t changed the mushy no chicken still so I would have to say no to this.
Had a little kelaguen I also would say needs just a little more lemon & pika. Can’t taste the coconut. More like ceviche or sisig. LOL!
Lumpia still the same not a fan but kids enjoyed it. My husband had the beef plate he said a bit better this time around not a chewy & tough but wished they served it warmer or hot when plate came out.
Latijas were good. Kids enjoyed .
All in all its continued progress & wish this business best of luck. The chamorro community is very big so you will always have critics. Keep up the good work!
I want to give a 3 – 4 star but just a few more fixes then they will be there the tables weren’t clean for us to wait on for our food so I went back outside to wait for our food. If dining area was clean it would of been better for us to wait in doors it was hot outside.

This review is for the Red Rice Musubi only.
If you like Musubi, you’ll LOVE the Red Rice Musubi! This Hawai’i girl can’t stop talking about it. Get it, get it, get it!
If you don’t know what musubi is, I’ll give you quick lesson. It’s a handmade, handheld dish made of rice (usually calrose/​sticky white rice) and Spam (canned meat/​luncheon meat) wrapped in seaweed (the greenish black stuff sushi is wrapped in.) It’s the perfect snack, appetizer, home lunch for work or school trips, or if you need a quick bite while on the go. You get the idea. This is a favorite among the Pacific islander culture.
The Red Rice Musubi is made with luncheon meat (not the Spam brand, if you know Spam you can tell the difference). The luncheon meat was tasty, not salty. I’ve had homemade authentic red rice (I have family from Saipan) and this red rice is legit. Full of bold flavors. It’s not spicy.
If you love bold flavors and feeling adventurous, I highly recommend the Red Rice Musubi! The musubi also has a mayo-​like sauce in between the rice and meat. This is now my favorite musubi and the sauce is what stood out compared to the Hawai’ian style musubi.
If you’re looking to taste Chamorro food without getting a full size take out plate, this is the way to go. It’s about $ 2 – 3 bucks. It’s well worth it. Red rice is a rice dish that is uniquely Chamorro, you won’t find it any other Asian or Pacific Islander restaurant.

I’m not a fan. We came here for the first time and tried the Fiesta platter, which was an assortment of meats, red rice, egg roll, and salad. All the meat was dry. To make it worse, the flavors were really not to my liking. The food was very salty. There were 3 – 4 types of meat, and every single one was a miss. The food also came with a dipping sauce. The sauce was also really salty, and I couldn’t dip any of my food in it. The rice and the salad were probably the best things in the combo. The rice is indeed red. I ate it to drown out the taste of the meat. And the salad was literally just a few pieces of lettuce and some cucumber slices with dressing on top.
Pretty sure we’re not coming back. I’d rather go to Island Sushi and Grill next door for poke or sushi. Or just go up and down Eastern for a plethora of better food.
Good thing we’re pigs, because we actually came here for to-​go and also grabbed Nacho Daddy too, which saved our meal.