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.
@island_girl72933 жыл бұрын
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.
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
Yes gotta give props to our kupuna that taught us everything. Happy birthday to your grandma! Have a blessed day.
@island_girl72933 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kind sentiment. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
@CARLOSCRUZ-qv1nr3 жыл бұрын
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...
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching! 🙏
@maxfit689063 жыл бұрын
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. 🙏🏽
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
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! 🙏
@KAWIKA10182 жыл бұрын
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.
@FoodFiend2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories of your Popo!
@olopopsstophi3 жыл бұрын
So nice to see some businesses still around. Miss all the mom and pop places.
@joettekanter34893 жыл бұрын
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. ❤️🙏🏻😊
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
That's the only way to eat em! 🤣❤
@junegoodwin93453 жыл бұрын
I remember those boiled peanuts so juicy and flavorful thanks for the memories and for sharing
@rebeccacalugcug39343 жыл бұрын
You are awesome and very kind and considerate of the local business 👍❤️
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching 🙏 We gotta support our local businesses for sure! ❤
@gegeuncle53824 ай бұрын
Have you been to Jane's Fountain lately @Food Fiend? Are they still going strong? Thank you kindly. Keep up the excellent work!
@FoodFiend4 ай бұрын
Mahalo! Yes just filmed there a month ago so check that video out about Timeless Oahu Eats. 🤙
@anthonylee20992 жыл бұрын
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.🤙😎
@FoodFiend2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. 🙏
@tonyc.11472 жыл бұрын
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.
@FoodFiend2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for watching! Yes it's quite sad when all the older places disappear. They are truly gems.
@junegoodwin93453 жыл бұрын
Brings back memories I love their saimin
@MarkFromHawaii3 жыл бұрын
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.
@pureconsciousness44495 жыл бұрын
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.
@FoodFiend5 жыл бұрын
Mahalo for watching! I'm so happy you enjoyed it! :)
@bernie5352 жыл бұрын
My mom took us there and when I got married I took my kids there too❤️
@leilanibeymer63643 жыл бұрын
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.
@howellwong113 жыл бұрын
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.
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
Very nice! Thanks for sharing your memories.
@howellwong113 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@piperlani2 жыл бұрын
Haupia is my favorite desert as well!!!👍🏼🤙🏼
@tonisanoedelacruz97543 жыл бұрын
My mom used to eat at Janes Fountain in the 50s.... and then in the 80s with me.
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
Nice memories. 🤙 Are you Jaime V's friend?
@KakoMochi5 жыл бұрын
I just suggested we eat at palace saimin last night, but ended up at utage! your vlogs make me so hungry🤤
@FoodFiend5 жыл бұрын
I haven't eaten at Utage. Is it good?
@KakoMochi5 жыл бұрын
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
@kshinokevin3 жыл бұрын
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 !!!
@bernie5352 жыл бұрын
Palace Saimin
@watsnu2day3 жыл бұрын
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.
@alohapoppet6107 Жыл бұрын
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.
@FoodFiend Жыл бұрын
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.
@alohapoppet6107 Жыл бұрын
@@FoodFiend Thank you now I know only took 20 years.🤨Keep well
@Me-mr6sv3 жыл бұрын
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 KZbin channel ! (Set up a food tour, for visiting people, for a fee !)
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
I'm so busy I can't. Plus I'm lazy lol
@MrSteveb803 жыл бұрын
whenever we get back to Hawaii we always go to Palace for saimin and some barbque sticks
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
Awesome I'm craving some right now. 🤙
@MrSteveb803 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@MrSteveb803 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@elaineshigemoto43732 жыл бұрын
wow! these places are treasures!! Are they still around? 🤞hopefully the pandemic didn't close them down!
@FoodFiend2 жыл бұрын
Yes they made it through the pandemic!
@ptank49963 жыл бұрын
COVID brought me here…. Thank you for sharing now I am hungry the time is 12:12 am 😞
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for stopping by! Be safe and sorry you're hungry now LOL
@alanyamamoto66449 ай бұрын
You making your show for the people from the main land
@FoodFiend9 ай бұрын
Why do you think that?
@Walts-Travel3 жыл бұрын
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 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
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-Travel3 жыл бұрын
@@FoodFiend well its the quiet ones you have to watch out for. The tattoos threw me off. I saw in the other videos. 🤔
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
@@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. 🤙
@Walts-Travel3 жыл бұрын
@@FoodFiend we all grow up. Im still a work in progress. Im the quiet one.
@junegoodwin93453 жыл бұрын
Haupia yummy
@hawaiiguy15 жыл бұрын
hey, I've seen other youtubers eat at that same bench in the mini park across the Carpenters Union on Houghtailing !
@FoodFiend5 жыл бұрын
It was close by and nice, but had so much flies I had to leave! Haha.
@kshinokevin3 жыл бұрын
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)...
@kshinokevin Жыл бұрын
Peter Buck (mini park)
@davidpotter37773 жыл бұрын
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
@FoodFiend3 жыл бұрын
Oooh sounds so good. Cannot beat simplicity! Mahalo and God bless!
@debbiewoo25253 жыл бұрын
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.
@carolpohina37982 жыл бұрын
music is louder then you
@FoodFiend2 жыл бұрын
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.