Itʻs been a while since I posted for any reviews but coming from someone who vacations to Tsim Sha…read moreTsui and Central, HK, this cafe is a portal to that world. The roast duck are legit, HK style, greasy, fatty, super tender and the skin is crispy! This is childhood for me. Everyone is super nice. The char siu is just okay, not the type I would order again but the duck is a Dream and will be back again. This place is really clean and well lighted and there are lots of street parking, just make sure you arrive early.

Sandy's Cafe in Chinese Cultural Plaza is the epitome of HK lunch cafes, with mouth watering,…read moretender char siu, and iconic crispy roast duck. Their roast duck is one of the best available in Oahu. I knocked off a star though because 2 years ago, I felt that the recipe was less oily and was much better, rivaling some places in Richmond/ Vancouver BC, Canada which is also known to have solid HK cafes outside of the home country. I miss how they've made it in the past, and wish they would revert back to how it was before... but regardless, a solid pick and a place I will probably still continue to frequent in the future.

Location at the union mall. Very friendly owner. Service is excellent. No seating inside but food…read morewill be made upon order. The restaurant is pretty small but it's clean. They have variety of dim sum and drinks can be choose. No tax if you pay by cash. * Must try their ginger chicken and soy sauce chicken combo for $15.75 - 10/10 - What a great deal in downtown area. It's a set which comes with daily soup, veggies and rice. * Milk Tea - 7/10 - pack of tea flavor, it's just ok * Lilikoi Lemonade - 9/10 - not too sweet, it's very refreshing. Support small local businesses. This is a very good place to get Chinese food in downtown area. Highly recommend!

Downtown Honolulu has been slowly dwindling on dim sum and Cantonese food for a while now. Dim Sum…read moreHouse? Replaced with a hotel. Jun Bo? Closed. Honolulu Seafood Restaurant? Gone. Might've bit more than they can chew. Finally, let's welcome Ocean Dim Sum in combination with Mon Cha Cha to Downtown! You might've seen them before at several farmer's market around the island. Now they have a physical store located along Bishop St at Union Mall in the Emerald Building. This is a grab and go place with an array of dim sum: sweet, savory, steamed, and basic meat with vegetable offerings with white or brown rice. The Chicken Curry and Beef Curry meat pies were very, very good. Flaky and crispy and light crust. The filling was decent. Beef had better flavor. Chicken was on the light side. 3 for $10. Ok to mix and match. Shrimp Dumplings were good. $7 for two is a bit on the pricey side, but they were much larger than your usual dim sum variety. The skin was thick yet soft. Decent flavor on the shrimp filling. Light for me. The Chicken with Tofu and Pork with Bittermelon were all right. I got the lucky scoop where all the ginger gathered up in both. The taste and flavors were homey and familiar. Again, on the lighter side. Same can be said about the seaweed soup - gingery and light (yes, I got slivers of ginger in the soup too!). Overall, not bad. If you're going with more healthier and more light tasting food, then this is the place. But too light for me. Even their hot mustard was overly watered down. At least I didn't get a ginger in there! The pies were excellent. Better than many other places. Service was good - super friendly and nice. Dim sum does run out later in the day. I did find it a touch on the pricey side compared to going to Chinatown, you're also sort of limited to what's there since everything is already neatly boxed.

Time for an update as I realized my last review of Golden Eagle Chinese Restaurant dates back to…read more2014. I used to come here all the time with my coworkers for lunch, as Golden Eagle Chinese Restaurant was just a hop, skip, & jump away from my office. Through the years, the business & location hasn't changed, but if I'm correct, I owners of the business have changed hands several times. I remembered the last time I came here was during Covid-19 where Golden Eagle Chinese was just doing "take-out" and no dining inside was available. Since the pandemic has passed us, everything is back to normal with the exception of different owners. This past Sunday I decided to drop by the Golden Eagle Chinese Restaurant to buy some steamed fish filet for my dad. Upon arriving at the restaurant, I must say not much has changed as far as the decor of the restaurant. What I did get from Golden Eagle was fast and friendly service, and a wonderfully made dish of steamed fish filet with ginger & onion (dad approved)! If you're Jonesing for Chinese food, give Golden Eagle Chinese Restaurant a try!

This is an old school Chinese restaurant that locals know about. Janey told me to meet her here…read moreand I had never been and she was surprised. It's quaint inside, but again, old school, so you'll see some boxes stacked in the corner. Janey got there first and said the man working was kinda unfriendly. But I think it was more about not knowing who we were, and like I said, lots of locals that frequent. The woman working was really nice! I just let Janey order. We started with some delicious hot n sour soup. The fried rice was really good! Loved the crispy skin duck! The gau gee mein had a great assortment of vegetables! And the sauteed choy sum(?) was good! Overall, really good local Chinese food! Though the interior is nice, it was a little warm even with the AC. The setting sun was just hitting the windows and even with the filter, it was warm. Other than that, great place to come to! Mahalo Golden Eagle!

It feels like I just keep returning to this place (like every month LOL), but the food is so…read moreappetizing and I have major FOMO, which the Shioketh team seems to be good at inducing! Their rotating menu means that whatever I end up enjoying might not be available in the near future. At the end of January, my friends and I ordered the Beef Rendang Combo with Sambal Goreng and Fried Egg (always good), Roti John (so good), Blooming Eggs (always good), Veggie Spring Roll, Pandan Waffle with Nutella (super sweet but so good), and 3 Combo Deals of a drink and Kaya Bun: Pandan Iced Coffee, Watermelon Cucumber Spritzer, Bandung Fizzy. The Bandung Fizzy has a nice rose flavor which was new to me. At the end of February, my group ordered: 2 portions of the Nasi Lemak, a Nonya Vegetable Curry, 2 orders of the Fried Gao Spring Rolls, and the Pandan Bun Combo Deal, with the drinks being Lychee Spritzer, Mango Cream Soda, and Pandan iced coffee. In early April, we ordered: Singaporean Laksa, Salted Egg Popcorn Chicken Plate, Blooming Egg, Pandan Iced Coffee, Watermelon Cucumber Spritzer, Mango Iced Tea, Pandan Waffle, Strawberry Matcha Sorbet, and Strawberry Pitaya Shrubae. In mid-April we ordered Punggol Mee Goreng, Ginger Fried Chicken, Mango Iced Tea, Lychee Iced Tea, Yuzu Fizzy, and Pandan Frozen custards. In mid-May we ordered Hainanese Fried Chicken, Curry Bak Mee, Pandan iced coffee, Pandan matcha coco cloud, and Kaya Toast frozen custard. I repeat myself when I say that the quality of food has been consistently satisfying. Shioketh is a rare Singaporean food offering on Oahu, and it has exposed me to unique dishes that I cannot forget. (The Roti John is something I still think about to this day.) Sometimes the Shioketh team brings you your food, and sometimes you go to the counter to retrieve your order. I'm fine either way because it's a smaller venue. We always choose to dine in, and we get here early (between 11 and 12) so that we *can* dine in. The head chef Emily usually makes the rounds to greet customers, and she's seen me enough times to recognize me as a regular (LOL). This practice of hers helps lend a feeling of community in the air.

After visiting Singapore many years ago, we enjoyed the flavorfulness and spiciness of the street…read morefood at the hawker stands, which was a mixture of Indonesian, Malay and Singaporean cultures. Occasional eateries have opened in HI offering this cusine, however, many were short-lived. In 2014, Emily Terukina immigrated to HNL from Singapore with her husband, Gavin. She worked as a host and kitchen helper at the Pig & the Lady. After missing her native home cuisine, she left the Pig & the Lady to open her own restaurant pop-up at the Hapa Market and Grill in Palolo called Shioketh on 9/7/24. Emily uses her traditional recipes to display the authentic flavors while growing up in Singapore, with slight adaptations to the likes of the local residents of HI. Huband Gavin oversees the back end of the restaurant's operations, including graphics and web design. Emily chose the name "Shioketh," which is a Singaporean/Malaysian slang term meaning: * "Shiok" = delicious, pleasurable, superb or highly satisfying and frequently used to describe a great meal. * "Shooketh" = a slang for shaken/surprised. She hopes to provide fun, casual food options of Singaporean flavors that leave her guests both satisfied and craving for more. Generallly open on Saturdays only, Shioketh offers a rotating, limited weekly menu that includes: * Entrees: laksa curry, beef rendang (Indonesian curry), ayam penyet (crispy Malay chicken), nasi lemak (coconut rice with chicken and egg), crispy wonton with noodles. * Sides: sambal goreng (stir-fried tofu, long beans, tempeh, shallots); blooming eggs. * Desserts: pandan waffle, Kaya sweet bun. * Drinks: Pandan iced coffee, bandung/yuzu fuzzy, mango cream soda, lychee/watermelon cucumber spritzer, iced teas. I had the following: * Salted egg popcorn chicken plate. Super crispy popcorn chicken tossed in a creamy, spicy salted egg sauce and finished with fried curry leaves, served with jasmine rice. Delicious, flavorful, seasoned sauce that was fiery spicy that complemented the chicken and Jasmine rice topped with garlic chips! Excellent spicy sauce that had me wanting to eat more and more! * Ginger fried chicken with fragrant chicken rice. Crisp, juicy ginger-marinated chicken fried with garlic, curry leaves, and blended macadamia for subtleness. Paired w/ fragrant chicken rice infused with ginger aromatics and war spices. I expected the chicken or the sauce to be spicy, but both were not; however, I enjoyed the spices that they were cooked in! Yum, very delicious! The juicy chicken is best eaten when freshly fried and dipped into the sauce for the best flavors! * Pandan coffee. This was a cold brew coffee topped with pandan coconut cold foam and sweetened with gula melaka palm sugar. I enjoyed the rich and creamy coffee with the subtle taste of the pandan foam! Very refreshing! As the weekly menus change, I plan to check Shioketh's Instagram site to see what food items will be offered on future dates. And if I see a menu item that interests me, I will preorder before the Saturday to guarantee having it. Staff is very friendly and knowledgeable about the menu items. Since I had preordered the food items and coffee, they were ready at the time of pick-up. There are a few tables for dine-in, and when we arrived at the peak of the lunch hour, all seats were taken. However, I had previously ordered online for takeout to ensure that the food items would not be sold out. Note that even if you dine in or take out, all food items are served in take-out containers and are made to order to ensure freshness and quality. Shioketh is generally open on Saturdays only from 11a to 3p, unless it is participating in private events; check their Instagram posts a few days prior for their schedule. Free parking in private lot shared with Hapa Market and Grill. I look forward to trying more of the different dishes offered! Love the delicious Malaysian cuisine with the accompanying spiciness, the authenticity of the menu, and the friendly staff that make this an amazing dining experience! I am glad that Shioketh has garnered a loyal following over the past year and wish them continued success. Support local!

Authentic Hong Kong style cafe food serving dishes from the land to the sea. Their foods are big…read morein portion and reasonably priced. They serve from cafe style comfort food to fresh seafoods. They also cook your freshly bought seafood for a small up charge too ! This is different than their next door neighbor where they also cook your seafood. This is more authentic Hong Kong Chinese style seafood where you can do it steamed or you can tried their typhoon harbor style seafood where it's crispy seasoned then fried. Super friendly service let support local goods ! Plenty shared tables at food court indoor or outdoor seating available too.

Located in the Mauna Kea Marketplace food court Hong Kong Island Cafe is a gem if you're looking…read morefor tasty flavorful food. With generous portions, quick service, and a lot of options and specials (a lot hand written or with pictures on the wall) there's a lot to pick and get a taste of HK. I previously had their wet style noodles with pork chop which was delicious with the chili oil!! But last week I went for some homely options and got fried noodles and fried rice. Lots of carbs but I wanted to fill up! The noodles were a tad under seasoned but had the perfect texture. I added a bit of soy sauce when I got back to work and we were A-OK. The char siu rice was perfect. Not too salty, not super dry and had the right amount of mix-ins and flavor.

This has been around forever but still one of our go-to spots for family gatherings because the…read morefood is very good, reasonably priced, BYOB, the service is so friendly, and they have a HUGE vegetarian menu! Everyone's favorite was the house special fried rice with egg (from the vegetarian menu)! Even the meat eaters at the table loved it! We were all surprised at just how good it was: umami, clearly had that smoky flavor from being cooked on a wok with a big fire. So good we even ordered a 2nd order of the same rice! Highly recommend trying it! My other favorite is always their steamed fish fillet, so soft, melts in your mouth, buttery, flaky, and the sauce always goes SO good on rice. Highly recommend! We all also loved the sweet and sour spare rib from the vegetarian menu, tastes just like sweet and sour pork! A little tangy, got a good chew to it, glazed perfectly, goes so good with the fried rice! The cold ginger scallion chicken was just a half chicken per order but was a HUGE portion which we loved! Very generous with the ginger scallion topping, which is a must for this dish. The chicken itself was fine, maybe a little dry, but not bad. The string beans with tofu chuck from the vegetarian menu was also great, freshly made, cooked to perfection, flavorful! The beef brisket and tendon with bean curd was good as well, good portion size, lots of sauce but also lots of meat and tendon, goes great on rice. The only thing we didn't care for was the clams in black bean sauce. The sauce when it gets cold kind of tastes like muck, and the flavor was just a bit too like if you just poured a jar of ready made black bean sauce on clams. Maybe they should think about serving this one on a sizzling plate or over a flame to keep it hot at the table? For 6 people on a Sunday night, it came out to around $200 before tax and tip, and that's with having to take some leftovers home to eat the next day! Very easy to call and make reservations, but they were empty on a Sunday night :( They tend to fill up more around the holidays, but hoping more people will help keep their business open! Food is good! Place is a little old on the inside, but clean enough. The spinning dolly in the middle of the table didn't spin very well, but again this restaurant has been around for a long time. They have lots of free parking right next to the restaurant, which can get full easily when the restaurant next door (Tane Vegan Izakaya) gets a lot of business. But otherwise ample free street parking across the road in the neighborhood! Will definitely be coming again! We had a great time!

They have the best ginger chicken :) always a favorite, go…read moreget yours and get a happy tummy too!

5-15/26 @10:45am or five minutes after 11am…read more ... anyway let's put it this way if I was to go back over there the one thing that I will be getting more of is the japanese andagi. ... I've seen this place so many times and I've even been to their neighbor which is the rainforest cafe- (exceptional Italian cream soda / like egg soda) I love the Lilikoi tart they have there. This time I actually went to get something and didn't realize they do sell "Andagi" I also bought a small thing of okinawin yakisoba. And two pieces of sweet mochi Truly not a disappointment. In fact this has that very open Okazuya style of takeout most times it does have order ahead in there were a few people before I bought my food that had larger orders to pick up so it is recommended that you call them ahead of time. They're very gracious people that work in there they're very kind. They're very courteous and they're very quick with the order. I don't believe I saw the yakisoba in the menu, but I seen it when I got to the window and the mochi ball and Andagi are very close to the counter window I highly recommend anyone who is in and around the area for a quick grab on a local favorite of a Japanese doughnut to come to this spot because the andagi- is much to appreciate it's one of these things that we know here in Hawaii to have that nice texture, The nice first crisp bite into the donut and then it leads into that delicious sweet cake doughnut part in the middle what we know as a Japanese donut, this carries its respected delightful reality... stop by this place because for $1.00 a piece... it's a crowd pleaser... I should have bought 10 of those things.. it's delicious when fresh and they keep really well into the end of the day.. Also I would definitely go back for the yakisoba the way it's made is delicious and I am one of those people that loves a good entrée that won't have meat or sometimes not even a hint of meat and this noodle dish is very good. I love how the vegetables were intertwined into the noodles sort of just not perfectly chopped, but it is tangled into the noodles as if it was another soba noodle- the carrots, spring onions, and if you see the accompanying picture- cabbage & or chopped boy choy. Thank you Teruya's Andagi. I will return

i would've loved to love teruya but i did not. i just didn't and i have no shame in disliking this…read morecute local business because i am a professional big back and a picky one at that. $10-12 price range for bentos - they have chicken, shrimp tempura etc. and some vegetarian options and mochi. we got garlic chicken and tempura bentos, they came with 4-5 sides like tamago roll, potato salad thing, sausage thing, eggplant thing IDK THE NAME SORRY service was nice. seems like it's run by grandmas. i am a professional grandma lover too. location on a small strip in between vons chicken and a barbershop. food - basically everything was very oily. it just tasted okay. chicken could've been crispier and had more depth. the potato salad was good, reminiscent of a potato stirfry dish my mom makes...but it was a bit too salty. the other sides were either kinda bland or not special. i did like the sweet potato mochi though! nice and fried like my dead hair overall 3 stars for service and the mochi yay

Great service, good advice, ambiance was very chill and the food was very affordable and a good…read moredeal Food is a little meh, but great overall.

Subject: Serious health and sanitation concern regarding food handling…read more"I am a frequent customer at Da Spot and have enjoyed the food here in the past, but I had an extremely concerning experience today, July 15, 2026. At approximately 7:40 PM, I visited the establishment to grab a meal, but I witnessed a staff member working at the food station coughing repeatedly directly over the open food displays. While doing so, she was wiping down the counter and continuing her tasks without turning away, wearing a mask, or taking any precautions. Seeing a staff member cough directly onto the food is completely unacceptable and a major health violation. Needless to say, I left immediately without ordering. I am sharing this in the hope that management will take this seriously. Employees showing signs of illness should not be working with food, and basic hygiene protocols must be enforced to protect your customers. I truly hope you will address this with your staff immediately so this does not happen again.