Thank you for taking me back to my hanabata days. I too grew up in the liliha area and remember all the places you visited. I haven't been back to those places in years but i really should. It bought tears to my eyes remembering the good old days. Everything was so simple back then. Thank you.
Decided to watch this because it would have been my grandmother's birthday today and I was thinking of her. Enjoyed your homage to your grandmother. Thank you for sharing your memories of the establishments frequented with her - the fact that these eateries are still around speaks volumes. I could relate to your sentiment about her being a great cook...mine sure was. The nourishing food and comforting memories surrounding the meals are truly a legacy bestowed upon us by the mothers and grandmothers, past and present.
I can remember if my brothers and I behaved while my popo went to the beauty shop then she would take us to Palace saimin. That was back in the 70's. To this day this is our first stop from the airport for my daughter's and I. Thank you for all the great memories.
Found this video and I had to watch it because it brings back memories of Palace Saimin...used to go there a lot (circa mid 1970s- early 80s). Just loved their won ton min and a side order bbq beef sticks. Grandma knows best!!! Thanks for sharing...
Although I love your videos, at times I have a hard time watching without getting emotional. Like you, I was raised in Kalihi (Amelia St) and I AM a FARRINGTON GOVERNOR. I left Oahu in 86’ when I graduated Hi Sch to attend College and play Football in CA. That was 35 years ago. I still come home once a year with my family for vacation. Although I know Kalihi like the back of my hand, a lot has changed. So many memories of my childhood along with my grandparents (who raised me but have since passed). Kalihi is historic and continues to strive due to hard working people and community support. I’m glad that some things NEVER change. 🙏🏽
Remembering eating at the Palace Saimin many years ago. We sat at the same table you sat at. Never ate at Young’s , but went there to buy their Lau Lau to bring back to the mainland. Great video of the OG places.🤙😎
Thank you for another delicious video Misty 😋😋😋! I absolutely LOVE Saimin, and I thought I was the only one that dipped my wontons in hot mustard and soy sauce, lol. ❤️🙏🏻😊
Cool video. Really enjoy your walk back into foodie time. I'm native to San Francisco, so this reminds me of all those older places we use to hangout at too. Most are gone now, sad.
Young's Fishmarket makes my favorite lau lau - big! They always fold the luau leaf over it in such an eye appealing way. They run out of the beef lau lau so you gotta go early.
mahalo nui for this blog, I lived in Kalihi for 1.5 yrs. on the corner of Gulick & N King st. behind the pool house. So I know about some of theses places especially the Palace Restaurant right across the street from where I lived with my aunt.
Whenever I visit Hawaii, I go to Young's Fish Market for my Hawaiian food. I used to go to Helena's, on King St. before it move. I also remember Young's when it was on Liliha St. I'm old and was in Hawaii from 1932 till 1953, all spent in Kalihi Kai and First Bridge area.
@@FoodFiend I forgot to add that First Bridge is the railroad bridge, which crossed Kalihi Stream. There was another bridge which crossed Moanalua Stream and which is aptly called Second Bridge.
I loved eating the roasted turkey tails and a side of kalua pig to go with my pork laulau. Ono ha2aiian food and east to get to with plenty parking and why i dont go to helenas cause hard to park there most of the time unfortunately.
Food Fiend it’s pretty good...meals come with soup or salad and dessert. Plus a drink - I think it’s fruit punch, for sure green river and coffee or tea. Soda is extra! The food can be kind of salty though
Utage used to be my aunt(y)'s old bar K. Sarah Sarah when she had a crack seed store, in the same area, it was called "Us Is Nuts." It used to be across the canal in Kokea Center, close to a Subway, but behind the Yohei Sushi place. (In the back of the subway, there was a gym (tumbling playground) and then a bar, called Leslie's Place (first, it was Filipino owned (like the old Pau Hana Lounge on Kohou St. (Tondo Tondo). (In that area, there was a wildlife museum (it is now a church), a bank (with a drive thru), a car dealership (now) and Ideta's restaurant. In the front of the Kokea Center, I remember a: Spot's Inn, a Mixed Plate (Vietnamese food) and Grace's Inn, close to the H&R Block place, when I was going to the HCC (junior college). Next to a hostess bar (Cleopatra's), in the back was a place that I used to checkout, Island Pagers. (Beepers in the 1990's). Ok, in the back, next to the tall antenna, that you could see for miles (like where the Costco gas stations stay/are), there was this place called Nishodo Candy Store !!! There sweet confectionery desserts were awesome !!!
@@FoodFiend me to food fiend, mahalo for All your videos. reminds me of when we used to live in the islands. you should do rainbow drive inn , kanak attack,. i miss Byrons, now a stupid McDonalds. Aloha sister.
@@MrSteveb80 Yes now near the McDonalds by the old Byron's it's all kinds commercialized stuff. IHOP and Dunkin Donuts is across the street too. I will try to get to Rainbows one day. They have expanded everywhere - Kalihi, Pearlridge and Waipahu but the quality is junk compared to the Kapahulu one, so I gotta go to town for the food.
@@MrSteveb80 Aw I totally know how you feel. I lived in Massachusetts for a bit and my mom would send me rice. Back then never even have the kind of rice we ate - only Uncle Bens. I lived in Bridgewater.
Misty strange question what are the birds called making that sound in the back Ground I have always wondered. I love that sound they make. Keep well. 7 weeks today and I will be on my way.
Aloha Martin! Those birds that make those sounds are the zebra dove. The smaller grey plain birds everywhere and the spotted dove. A little bigger -almost the size of a pigeon but has a nice green near the neck.
Just getting to watch your channel and I would never think of you as a rebel. You actually seemed to be very reserved. Unless that other side comes out off camera lol. Thanks for sharing with us. Mahalo 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Lol I'm actually shy if I don't know you but when I was younger I had dyed hair, piercings all over my face and a terrible attitude. Slowly maturing everyday 🤣 Mahalo for watching!
@@Walts-Travel LOL true. Not that I did terrible things in the past, but I have been redeemed as well. I enjoyed your video on that. So slowly trying to better my attitude in the past year or so. God bless you and thank you for your service. 🤙
there is a like a basketball court, across from a church; this is close to the overpass, before Farrington High School (a new football field / track) and Honolulu Ford, by a 4 way traffic light (go left on North King Street: Diner's, Old Saimin Shop, across from this, there is the Palace Saimin (by one post office), but if you go further down, there is a Richie's Drive Inn; across a 7-11 branch by the Kapalama Canal bridge, there is a buidling, with Jesse's (Filipino) Bakery); if you go straight on Houghtailing Street (Waiakamilo area): Meg's Drive Inn and of course, Bob's Barbeque (on Dillingham Blvd.), across from a McDonald's (another 4 way traffic stop); within the Waiakamilo Shopping Center (there is a Original Pancake House, a Waiakamilo Drive Inn and a Pho noodle shop, by a Firestore auto parts store and a couple of bars. If you are on Dillingham Blvd. (next to Bob's Barbeque) and you go left by the moped sales / (former New York) tech school, there will be Kapalama Shopping Center (Zippy's); before the Zippy's, there is Wing Stop ("Barrio Fiesta"); one dentist; my aunt(y)'s favorite watering hole (Violet's Grill) had closed down (Egghead Cafe had replaced it), by a Magnolia Ice Cream shop; Egghead Cafe is next to a shoe repair shop and a new Volcano vaping shop (?): which was both a barber shop and a E-Lounge bar, right next to a laundromat - close to Elvin's Bakery and the old Palama Supermarket area; there used to be a building behind Wingstop. Frankie's European Bakery; in the middle was the "Propane Tank" seller, a Kathy's Place bar (it is now a Thai restaurant/Micronesian bar), next to a car dealership and a bus stop bench (behind Bob's Bar-b-q: a Kalihi landmark, next to one Taco Bell). if you go right, on Dillingham Blvd., across from the McDonald's = there will be a bus stop, next to a Midas auto parts place; a (blue ?) 2 floor building: there is a tattoo parlor and a Check Cashing place; on the bottom floor/ground level area, there is another famous landmark institution: Boulevard Saimin (formerly called Dillingham Saimin); it is close by an empty restaurant space (Bob's Big Bear and/or the old Sizzler's; next to Sizzler's was a bank (now Hilti, which used to be by a 7-11 branch at the City Square Shopping Center, close to the Kapalama ("lepto(spirosis") Canal and a junior college (HCC or Honolulu Community College.) City Square Shopping Center also had a King Kamehameha Bakery, which used to be on North School Street - across from Burt's Union 76 gas station; it was a two story brick building that houses a new Rainbow Drive Inn branch (bottom), a Gyukaku (on top); parking lot is in the back - my mom had told me that she remembers a Chinese restaurant used to be there. There is a Chinese restaurant between a: Chevron gas station, Union Hall and graveyard, "Golden City." The graveyard is located before the Alewa Heights(?) ramp (the Kam School's bus terminal), close to a Walgreen's branch (the old Kam Bowl area)...
You should have a tour guide business on the side, for people who vacation there, bet you would get a lot of business, from your UA-cam channel ! (Set up a food tour, for visiting people, for a fee !)
Mahalo Carol for your input. Also a very old video and learned as I went. Still learning but hopefully the newer videos are straight to the point and only put music in the beginning and not while talking. God bless.
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Thank you for taking me back to my hanabata days. I too grew up in the liliha area and remember all the places you visited. I haven't been back to those places in years but i really should. It bought tears to my eyes remembering the
good old days. Everything was so simple back then. Thank you.
Decided to watch this because it would have been my grandmother's birthday today and I was thinking of her. Enjoyed your homage to your grandmother. Thank you for sharing your memories of the establishments frequented with her - the fact that these eateries are still around speaks volumes. I could relate to your sentiment about her being a great cook...mine sure was. The nourishing food and comforting memories surrounding the meals are truly a legacy bestowed upon us by the mothers and grandmothers, past and present.
Yes gotta give props to our kupuna that taught us everything. Happy birthday to your grandma! Have a blessed day.
Thank you for the kind sentiment. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
I can remember if my brothers and I behaved while my popo went to the beauty shop then she would take us to Palace saimin. That was back in the 70's. To this day this is our first stop from the airport for my daughter's and I. Thank you for all the great memories.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories of your Popo!
Found this video and I had to watch it because it brings back memories of Palace Saimin...used to go there a lot (circa mid 1970s- early 80s). Just loved their won ton min and a side order bbq beef sticks. Grandma knows best!!! Thanks for sharing...
Thank you for watching! 🙏
So nice to see some businesses still around. Miss all the mom and pop places.
Although I love your videos, at times I have a hard time watching without getting emotional. Like you, I was raised in Kalihi (Amelia St) and I AM a FARRINGTON GOVERNOR. I left Oahu in 86’ when I graduated Hi Sch to attend College and play Football in CA. That was 35 years ago. I still come home once a year with my family for vacation. Although I know Kalihi like the back of my hand, a lot has changed. So many memories of my childhood along with my grandparents (who raised me but have since passed). Kalihi is historic and continues to strive due to hard working people and community support. I’m glad that some things NEVER change. 🙏🏽
Aw thank you! I get a bit emotional when I think of the old time too. Especially since I'm getting older and knowing things are changing. God bless! 🙏
Remembering eating at the Palace Saimin many years ago. We sat at the same table you sat at. Never ate at Young’s , but went there to buy their Lau Lau to bring back to the mainland. Great video of the OG places.🤙😎
Thank you. 🙏
Thank you for another delicious video Misty 😋😋😋! I absolutely LOVE Saimin, and I thought I was the only one that dipped my wontons in hot mustard and soy sauce, lol. ❤️🙏🏻😊
That's the only way to eat em! 🤣❤
I remember those boiled peanuts so juicy and flavorful thanks for the memories and for sharing
Cool video. Really enjoy your walk back into foodie time. I'm native to San Francisco, so this reminds me of all those older places we use to hangout at too. Most are gone now, sad.
Thanks so much for watching! Yes it's quite sad when all the older places disappear. They are truly gems.
Young's Fishmarket makes my favorite lau lau - big! They always fold the luau leaf over it in such an eye appealing way. They run out of the beef lau lau so you gotta go early.
You are awesome and very kind and considerate of the local business 👍❤️
Thank you for watching 🙏 We gotta support our local businesses for sure! ❤
Have you been to Jane's Fountain lately @Food Fiend? Are they still going strong? Thank you kindly. Keep up the excellent work!
Mahalo! Yes just filmed there a month ago so check that video out about Timeless Oahu Eats. 🤙
Brings back memories I love their saimin
mahalo nui for this blog, I lived in Kalihi for 1.5 yrs. on the corner of Gulick & N King st. behind the pool house. So I know about some of theses places especially the Palace Restaurant right across the street from where I lived with my aunt.
Haupia is my favorite desert as well!!!👍🏼🤙🏼
Whenever I visit Hawaii, I go to Young's Fish Market for my Hawaiian food. I used to go to Helena's, on King St. before it move. I also remember Young's when it was on Liliha St. I'm old and was in Hawaii from 1932 till 1953, all spent in Kalihi Kai and First Bridge area.
Very nice! Thanks for sharing your memories.
@@FoodFiend I forgot to add that First Bridge is the railroad bridge, which crossed Kalihi Stream. There was another bridge which crossed Moanalua Stream and which is aptly called Second Bridge.
Yes very nostalgic! I live mainland now but your videos are no ka oi! Keep old school alive gurl. Much mahalos. Comfort foods indeed very ono.
Mahalo for watching! I'm so happy you enjoyed it! :)
My mom took us there and when I got married I took my kids there too❤️
My mom used to eat at Janes Fountain in the 50s.... and then in the 80s with me.
Nice memories. 🤙 Are you Jaime V's friend?
I loved eating the roasted turkey tails and a side of kalua pig to go with my pork laulau. Ono ha2aiian food and east to get to with plenty parking and why i dont go to helenas cause hard to park there most of the time unfortunately.
I just suggested we eat at palace saimin last night, but ended up at utage! your vlogs make me so hungry🤤
I haven't eaten at Utage. Is it good?
Food Fiend it’s pretty good...meals come with soup or salad and dessert. Plus a drink - I think it’s fruit punch, for sure green river and coffee or tea. Soda is extra! The food can be kind of salty though
Utage used to be my aunt(y)'s old bar K. Sarah Sarah when she had a crack seed store, in the same area, it was called "Us Is Nuts." It used to be across the canal in Kokea Center, close to a Subway, but behind the Yohei Sushi place. (In the back of the subway, there was a gym (tumbling playground) and then a bar, called Leslie's Place (first, it was Filipino owned (like the old Pau Hana Lounge on Kohou St. (Tondo Tondo). (In that area, there was a wildlife museum (it is now a church), a bank (with a drive thru), a car dealership (now) and Ideta's restaurant. In the front of the Kokea Center, I remember a: Spot's Inn, a Mixed Plate (Vietnamese food) and Grace's Inn, close to the H&R Block place, when I was going to the HCC (junior college). Next to a hostess bar (Cleopatra's), in the back was a place that I used to checkout, Island Pagers. (Beepers in the 1990's). Ok, in the back, next to the tall antenna, that you could see for miles (like where the Costco gas stations stay/are), there was this place called Nishodo Candy Store !!! There sweet confectionery desserts were awesome !!!
whenever we get back to Hawaii we always go to Palace for saimin and some barbque sticks
Awesome I'm craving some right now. 🤙
@@FoodFiend me to food fiend, mahalo for All your videos. reminds me of when we used to live in the islands. you should do rainbow drive inn , kanak attack,. i miss Byrons, now a stupid McDonalds. Aloha sister.
@@MrSteveb80 Yes now near the McDonalds by the old Byron's it's all kinds commercialized stuff. IHOP and Dunkin Donuts is across the street too. I will try to get to Rainbows one day. They have expanded everywhere - Kalihi, Pearlridge and Waipahu but the quality is junk compared to the Kapahulu one, so I gotta go to town for the food.
@@FoodFiend Mahalo food fiend, keep up the good work. i'm so hungry back here in Massachusetts. i need some ONO GRINDS. i miss it.
@@MrSteveb80 Aw I totally know how you feel. I lived in Massachusetts for a bit and my mom would send me rice. Back then never even have the kind of rice we ate - only Uncle Bens. I lived in Bridgewater.
Misty strange question what are the birds called making that sound in the back Ground I have always wondered. I love that sound they make. Keep well. 7 weeks today and I will be on my way.
Aloha Martin! Those birds that make those sounds are the zebra dove. The smaller grey plain birds everywhere and the spotted dove. A little bigger -almost the size of a pigeon but has a nice green near the neck.
@@FoodFiend Thank you now I know only took 20 years.🤨Keep well
Just getting to watch your channel and I would never think of you as a rebel. You actually seemed to be very reserved. Unless that other side comes out off camera lol. Thanks for sharing with us. Mahalo 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Lol I'm actually shy if I don't know you but when I was younger I had dyed hair, piercings all over my face and a terrible attitude. Slowly maturing everyday 🤣 Mahalo for watching!
@@FoodFiend well its the quiet ones you have to watch out for. The tattoos threw me off. I saw in the other videos. 🤔
@@Walts-Travel LOL true. Not that I did terrible things in the past, but I have been redeemed as well. I enjoyed your video on that. So slowly trying to better my attitude in the past year or so. God bless you and thank you for your service. 🤙
@@FoodFiend we all grow up. Im still a work in progress. Im the quiet one.
wow! these places are treasures!! Are they still around? 🤞hopefully the pandemic didn't close them down!
Yes they made it through the pandemic!
You making your show for the people from the main land
Why do you think that?
I had to get two egg sandwiches the other day at Jane's fountain they were so simple so delicious God bless you and your family amen
Oooh sounds so good. Cannot beat simplicity! Mahalo and God bless!
hey, I've seen other youtubers eat at that same bench in the mini park across the Carpenters Union on Houghtailing !
It was close by and nice, but had so much flies I had to leave! Haha.
there is a like a basketball court, across from a church; this is close to the overpass, before Farrington High School (a new football field / track) and Honolulu Ford, by a 4 way traffic light (go left on North King Street: Diner's, Old Saimin Shop, across from this, there is the Palace Saimin (by one post office), but if you go further down, there is a Richie's Drive Inn; across a 7-11 branch by the Kapalama Canal bridge, there is a buidling, with Jesse's (Filipino) Bakery); if you go straight on Houghtailing Street (Waiakamilo area): Meg's Drive Inn and of course, Bob's Barbeque (on Dillingham Blvd.), across from a McDonald's (another 4 way traffic stop); within the Waiakamilo Shopping Center (there is a Original Pancake House, a Waiakamilo Drive Inn and a Pho noodle shop, by a Firestore auto parts store and a couple of bars. If you are on Dillingham Blvd. (next to Bob's Barbeque) and you go left by the moped sales / (former New York) tech school, there will be Kapalama Shopping Center (Zippy's); before the Zippy's, there is Wing Stop ("Barrio Fiesta"); one dentist; my aunt(y)'s favorite watering hole (Violet's Grill) had closed down (Egghead Cafe had replaced it), by a Magnolia Ice Cream shop; Egghead Cafe is next to a shoe repair shop and a new Volcano vaping shop (?): which was both a barber shop and a E-Lounge bar, right next to a laundromat - close to Elvin's Bakery and the old Palama Supermarket area; there used to be a building behind Wingstop. Frankie's European Bakery; in the middle was the "Propane Tank" seller, a Kathy's Place bar (it is now a Thai restaurant/Micronesian bar), next to a car dealership and a bus stop bench (behind Bob's Bar-b-q: a Kalihi landmark, next to one Taco Bell). if you go right, on Dillingham Blvd., across from the McDonald's = there will be a bus stop, next to a Midas auto parts place; a (blue ?) 2 floor building: there is a tattoo parlor and a Check Cashing place; on the bottom floor/ground level area, there is another famous landmark institution: Boulevard Saimin (formerly called Dillingham Saimin); it is close by an empty restaurant space (Bob's Big Bear and/or the old Sizzler's; next to Sizzler's was a bank (now Hilti, which used to be by a 7-11 branch at the City Square Shopping Center, close to the Kapalama ("lepto(spirosis") Canal and a junior college (HCC or Honolulu Community College.) City Square Shopping Center also had a King Kamehameha Bakery, which used to be on North School Street - across from Burt's Union 76 gas station; it was a two story brick building that houses a new Rainbow Drive Inn branch (bottom), a Gyukaku (on top); parking lot is in the back - my mom had told me that she remembers a Chinese restaurant used to be there. There is a Chinese restaurant between a: Chevron gas station, Union Hall and graveyard, "Golden City." The graveyard is located before the Alewa Heights(?) ramp (the Kam School's bus terminal), close to a Walgreen's branch (the old Kam Bowl area)...
Peter Buck (mini park)
Palace Saimin
Haupia yummy
COVID brought me here…. Thank you for sharing now I am hungry the time is 12:12 am 😞
Thanks for stopping by! Be safe and sorry you're hungry now LOL
You should have a tour guide business on the side, for people who vacation there, bet you would get a lot of business, from your UA-cam channel ! (Set up a food tour, for visiting people, for a fee !)
I'm so busy I can't. Plus I'm lazy lol
I remember when Youngs made one of the best laulau ... now they use the spine and it's dry .. not very tasty. Too bad, it was my go to.
music is louder then you
Mahalo Carol for your input. Also a very old video and learned as I went. Still learning but hopefully the newer videos are straight to the point and only put music in the beginning and not while talking. God bless.
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