What is the best kept secret resturaunt on Oahu in Hawaii?
Tim H asked:
Visiting Hawaii soon and would like to find the best kept secret places there . . .
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Visiting Hawaii soon and would like to find the best kept secret places there . . .
May 1st, 2009 at 1:41 am
Don’t ask here… ask when you get there! Ask the bell boy at your hotel, ask the bus driver, ask people on the street! Make sure you get at least one of each of the following:
1. Plate lunch – meat, rice and mac salad
2. Spam musubi – you can get this anywhere… probably even the gas station
3. Saimin – hawaiian noodle soup
4. Shave Ice – soooo different than snow cones on the mainland. Melts in your mouth. Get the ice cream on the bottom too!
5. Malasadas – hawaiian (portugese) donuts. Yum!
That should give you a good taste of the islands. Have a great time… I wish I were back!
May 3rd, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Young’s Ramen in Salt Lake Mall by Coldstone Creamry is an awesome place and cheap. There is also several others all around, you just have to look for a small place that has lots of cars out front.
May 4th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Kalakaua Plate Lunch $5 great stir fry ~ Mushroom Chicken, Shrimp Stir Fry
Ala Moana Beach Park Concessions ~ good local food Plate lunches/fried noodles
Regal Drive In ~ McCully Shopping Center ~ Plate Lunches/Chinese Food & Manapua/Dim Sum, Roast Pork, Char Siu, Cake Noodle, Shrimp
South Shore Grill ~ Daimond Head ~ Kal Bi Ribs, Fish tacos
Teddy’s Bigger Burgers ~ Waikiki by the Honolulu Zoo & Kuhio Beach.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:04 am
I don’t think my list would qualify as “best kept secrets”…Oahu is so crowded now that there are very few places that people don’t know about. How about restaurants that are well-known among locals, that few tourists know about?
-Sushi? Try Genki Sushi right on the edge of Waikiki. Not as “high-class” as other sushi joints, but the locals love Genki for their prices and the novelty of being served sushi on a conveyor belt.
-Like garlic? Eat the spicy garlic chicken from Sugoi about 10 minutes from the airport.
-another garlic place is one of the shrimp trucks in Kahuku (small town on the North Shore of Oahu). These are not really “restaurants”, as you buy your plate out of a truck (where the shrimp is cooked) and eat under a canopy…here’s an article I remember reading awhile ago:
-For “local-style plate lunch”, Rainbow’s is a favorite among locals as well (also at the edge of Waikiki). Here’s a link:
Boneless chicken is the only thing I eat from there…it’s that good.
-Japanese style saimin (noodles)? Go to Shiro’s. Here’s a link: Try Googling this place though…My and my family eat at the one that’s closer to where we live; it’s on Kamehameha Hwy. in Aiea. I’m sure the food tastes the same though.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
The McDonalds by the Pink Palace… yummy!
May 8th, 2009 at 10:48 am
The best breakfast within walking distance of Waikiki is Eggs & Things. Their banana pancakes are to die for!
May 10th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Zippy’s restraunts are the best place to go.You need to try their world famous chili.
May 10th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
There is a plate lunch place on Lewers St in Waikiki quite near the beach. If they’re still there, they have chicken cutlets, potato/pasta salad and rice. You can eat in, but we took ours on a short walk out the beach on our first night in Waikiki. Wow, the best ever!!