i think i'm gonna have some Hawaiian food for dinner

 

Yeah, Kilohana isn't bad, but it's not great. Maybe I'm spoiled because I used to go to Hawaii almost every year to visit relatives.

One time my brother's friend brought back 50 lbs of Zippy's chili.

 

Ditto on Ray's in San Mateo.

Bay Area L&L's are really inconsistent from branch to branch IMHO.

God I miss Hana Hou/Isuzu in S.F. Japantown. Anyone else remember that place?

 

FTMFW!!!! my fave. i miss it sooo much. i used to live on oahu for a short time and i used to go every summer but i havent been back in wayyyy too long.

Mahalo in milpitas is better than the L&L here.

aloha family used to be pretty decent but i dunno what happened to them.

poke is the bomb at hukilau but the food is ehhh. i go there when im craving poke or their portugese sausage chili is pretty good too. the kalua pork fries too....but its kinda like the main dishes SUCK but the appetizers are good.

theres a place in vallejo that i used to go to in high school but i dunno if its there anymore. they were a call ahead order place tho.

what happened to the one in HMB? they closed? the portions were huge.

i just usually stock up on stuff when the aloha festival comes around and my friends are part of the local hawaiian society with dinners and luaus that i always make sure to grab extra from

 

You're talking about the well known Rainbow Drive in on Kanaina Ave up from the zoo right?

Have you been there lately? After many many many years of loyal patronage my family stopped going there because in the last few years they went to crap. I dunno what happened. Unless they "got their act together" in the last 2 years.

After several visits on separate occasions about 3 years ago, we stopped going. =(

 

slightly off topic, but has anyone been to Hamura's in Lihue on Kauai? That's my favorite saimin place and the have awesome lilikoi pie.

PS: after seeing this thread yesterday i couldnt resist getting Loco Moco on my way from work at Aloha Kitchen, hehe

 

Who goes to Kauai and DOESN'T go to Hamura's?!?? ;P

A friend just visited there and brought us back a pack of saimin... but it's not quite the same without the right soup and sitting in that chicken shack. Heh

 

I like Ohana's sweet tonkatsu sauce instead of the traditional tangy kind that's normally found in Japanese cuisine. Ono Hawaiian also serves this kind. I love it. I also like having a spam musubi for lunch the next day.

 

Aloha festival??? Hah? Whoa... When is this? Have to check into that.

Yeah couple years ago we went out to HMB and saw this place, so we stopped by to get some food. I got the ono - my fav fish, and it was like... ono jerky? Nasty. That was the only time I have been out there. Then we went out to the HMB brewery and saw that Ono Hawaiian Grill was all closed up, so I guess they are gone now. Since my only experience was bad, I guess I am not too surprised cept my girl said she ate there on a family vacation once (from Sweden) years ago, so I guess this place has been around for years.

Either way I haven't been back home to the big island more than a year now and currently I am in Washington DC so DAAAAAAYM people stop talking about all this awesome food. Garrrans my first stop back home will be Hawaiian Drive Inn.

 

i was just about to post this.

its not bad for the money man... 6 bucks and more than you can eat worth of food.

 

Yeah there is L & L like people have said....

If you go up toward cupertino though, there's a bunch of imposted L&L places called "J & J hawaiian bbq"
which is EXACTLy like L & L, but cheaper.... yum.

 

If you think L&L is good in California, then you'll be pleasantly surprised when you go to Hawaii's L&L.

 

I second that. There's one we went to in Waimanalo on the windward side of Oahu, small hole in the wall type of L&L but the food was good.

 

Every August at the Presidio marching grounds. You should check it out. It's nice family fun.

 

Hula Hut (Hawaiian/Filipino food) in Vallejo is pretty good...more of a restaurant than fast food though.