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Happy Mini Mart

4.3 (42 reviews)
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Open • 6:00 am - 4:30 pm

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Inari
Andy F.

Happy Mini Mart isn't your typical Kwik-E-Mart convenience store. No rotating wieners, brain freezing squishiees, coffee sitting in pots for who knows how long, and etc. Instead, you'll find delicious, freshly prepared bentos, musubis, rice bowls, and many other Korean style delights. Of course, there's your typical convenience store items too. This little store is located across the Downtown US Post Office along Richard Street, next to Roots and Relics with many metered stalls nearby. Many of my co-workers recommended this place. I never went until recently, and I've been there many times! It's a great place to grab a quick snack and lunch. The first thing I got was a musubi. There's spam, spam with egg, hot dog, or hot dog with egg. I tried spam and hot dog with egg. The rice was prepared very well. It was moist and warm. The Spam was prepared close to its original taste. The hot dog was very good. Packed with sweet and soy flavor. Both were very good! $2.25 with egg, and $2 without. The omelette was good. It was cooked very well and maintained its moistness. Basic salty flavor with nice bits of spam, scallion, and carrots. The middle had seaweed, which was very good. $4.00, but I got it at $3.85! :) The Meat Jun Donburi was good. Nice, thin slices of tender and tasty beef that was battered and fried very well. Some Gochujang would've been perfect. $7.50 for this. Inari was good. Nicely cooked, flavorful rice in a tasty bean curd pocket. Overall, I'm sold on the food here. I'll definitely be coming back to try other items. They have a daily menu that changes everyday, so it's not a guarantee you'll get the same items I got. The ladies here are very friendly and very nice. The store is bright, clean, and organized with a nice variety of drinks. Coming to Happy Mini Mart definitely makes me happy!

$8.99 yummy bento. Teri Chicken, salmon on cabbage, fish cake, mandoo, corn, gobo, takuwan, & egg roll.
Donna O.

Now I'm not working in the heart of downtown, so once in a great while my friend would offer to pick up lunch from town for me. She's another foodie person who likes to try new places and suggested this place! There's a mini mart across from the Downtown U.S. Post Office next to the golf shop, Roots and Relics. Many years ago I used to work in the area and even upstairs in the same building but never thought to have a mini mart serving delicious Korean food! Back then it was another business but what a great hidden gem Happy Mini Mart is! I would never have known about their yummy Korean food until my two friends raved on how reasonable yet tasty and how generous their portion was! For under $7-$8, you could get a pretty decent meal. Friend got me a mix combo bento of salmon and teri chicken and most recently, I stopped by and got a spicy pork bowl. Since I came by around 1:30pm, there weren't as many choices but you could also request to have made to order Kim chee ramen, bi-bim bap or even poke bowls! My friends like their bi bim bap. Spicy pork was not too spicy nor too sweet but just right! There's a good portion of meat vs rice and it comes with one mandoo, egg rolls and sweet pickled daikon (turnip). Great if you can walk from your office or drive & park in the metered parking lot fronting the post office. The meters are up until an hour at a time. Definitely have to be lucky to score parking during lunch time! The lady cashier was polite and they accept cash or charge payment. My friends and I'm sure you would also be satisfied and HAPPY after enjoying their food from Happy Mini Mart! I did and I'm a happy customer! =) Thanks for reading my review! =)

Lunch bentos
Dathan C.

"On this episode of, 'Hidden Restaurant, Cheap Eats,'" Wait, wait, CUT THE TAPE! This isn't even slightly hidden. It's right on a busy street near to the downtown golf shop, Roots and Relics. Who are the writers for this show? Did we hire those rejects from ABC's Caveman show? For reals though, Happy Mini Mart IS cheap eats in a town that's getting notorious for expensive lunches. Offering a variety of local, Japanese, and Korean style bowls and bentos ranging from donburi, chap chae vegetarian plates, kalua pig bowls, tempura/unagi, poke , meat jun, spicy chicken wings, curry, teriyaki chicken, to various styles of sushi including kim bap. Bentos range from $10 for the Unagi bowls, to $3.75 for the chap chae/tamago/Chinese cabbage vegetarian bento, with most of the chicken and pork bowls between $6 and $7. Their lunches are freshly made and tasty with a decent quantity of food and much healthier than the fast food lunches so many of us resort to. Happy Mart also offers breakfast bentos, along with the regular convenience store drinks, candy, musubi, gum, etc. So stop by this incredibly easy to find spot to grab a quick, healthy, affordable lunch. Also please help us find better writers, or let us know where actual hidden spots are, because this one ain't.

Meat jun donburi
Joyce L.

If you're in the downtown area looking for cheap lunch, Happy Mini Mart is located across from the post office. It's a small place but filled with Korean bentos and takeouts. So far I tried their meat jun don buri and Korean sushi. Both of the items were $5/6. If you're looking for cheap eats with good taste this may the place for you.

Bi Bim Bop
Christopher B.

A small convenient store that serve hot food breakfast and lunch. For breakfast they have small and medium grab and go breakfast bentos (spam, sausages, egg, omelette). They also have grab and go sandwiches and spam (and with egg) musubi. Their grab and go bento/bowls are also delicious. Spicy pork, Kalua pig, chicken bowls are my go to. Oh and their Bi Bim Bop, which comes with miso soup all for $10.00! Prices is a little on the higher side, since it's located in downtown, business district (outskirts) right across the post office.

Holland M.

I've been coming here for the past 3 years. Their bentos are always delicious. For me, buying breakfast everyday can get pretty costly, that I started making my own and haven't been to Happy's in a long time. But today it was raining and thundering, and I hit the snooze button too many times. Needless to say I was running behind schedule. So I decided to be nice to myself and bought Kimchi Fried Rice! It's as amazing as I remember! Hot spicy kimchi fried rice with a soft egg and 2 slices of bacon. I really missed this breakfast bento. Make sure to get there early as the kimchi fried rice is only available in the morning and sells out fast! It costs $5.50 w/tax.

Ham & mushroom omelette
Jacie F.

I went to the post office downtown and saw so many people coming out of this mini mart in the morning. I decided to check it out and found out they sell bfast and lunch! I was really shocked. Great selection for such a great price!! I got the ham and mushroom omelette. Their fried rice looks amazing, so I would like to try that next time. I would love to try their lunch as I have heard manyy good things about it. This is such a great place to just pick up and go.

Spicy Ahi Bowl
Frank A.

I've never done a review for a mini-mart but had to do one for this place. Happy Mini Mart is located on Richard Street in downtown Honolulu next to the Roots & Relics Golf Shop and across the Post Office. This is a small convenient store, however, they boast a wide array of breakfast bentos, including fried rice, pork sausage, Portuguese sausage, bacon , eggs and omelettes to name a few. For lunch they offer various bentos including kim chee fried rice, chicken katsu, meat jun, crab jun, curry, chup chae, and various bowls such as ahi poke, unagi, and Bi Bim Bap (some of my favorites). All of their bentos are very affordable, in the $5-$6 range, $7-$8 range for the bowls! Can you say "cheap eats"! :) If you are ever on the outskirt of downtown, but don't plan on or have the time to walk into the heart of downtown or Chinatown for a bite, this is a convenient place for a pickup. (Sorry, they don't have seating) Happy's also has a daily special on the whiteboard displayed in the window. Friendly people, good service and very accommodating. If they don't have a bento on display, just ask and they'll make one for you if they haven't run out. (I always ask if they still have chup chae in the back cause they seem to always run out quickly in front) There are metered on-street parking on Richard Street or across the street at the post office.

Kimbap (aka Korean sushi)
Katherine L.

I was pleasantly surprised at how simple but fresh and tasty the Korean sushi is at Happy Mini Mart in downtown. It's a small convenience store that is known for its affordable yummy Korean and local food. Definitely recommend!

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Great little hole in the wall! A nice selection of korean food and reasonable prices.

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5.0(8 reviews)
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