“Ono Hawaiian Foods” Oh No!!!!! (Restaurant Review)

Post by The Grumpy One

Just a warning, my location reviews will most likely not be like my usual posts.  Instead of drawing stuff, I will take pictures so you really see what I am talking about.

So “The Tattooed One” invited me and “The Pretty One” to join him for lunch. He told us he knows of a good “hole in the wall” place that serves “Local” food (for you that don’t know, we all currently live in Hawaii.)

“Ono Hawaiian Foods, 726 Kapahulu Ave. Honolulu, HI”

When we walked up I was kinda scared.

But after we looked at all the pictures on the wall of celebrities that have eaten there before…

…we immediately knew it was good when we realized it was…

CHUCK NORRIS APPROVED!!!

Anyway… our lovely waitress Cindy (who even though she wasn’t that old, reminded me of a caring grandma) was a doll.  She was so helpful.  I told her to order for me since the point of this blog is try interesting food so she ordered me the Laulau plate (pronounced like the word LOUD, without the D, and say it twice.) It is pork (your choice of pork or chicken) wrapped inside of a tarot leaf (a cross between like a spinach leaf and a tea leaf.)

That would have been enough, except…they REALLY like to eat here, so it came with Laulau, Pipkaula (a kind of local flank jerky) Lomi Salmon (a tomato and salmon salad) Haupia (a local coconut jelly desert) and your choice of rice or Poi.

The food was really good (I think my favorite part was the jerky,) really cozy atmosphere, awesome staff (we love you Cindy) and they have no problem speaking about the celebrities that have visited (they were laughing at us when we started freaking out and taking pictures of the Chuck Norris photo.) If you are ever in Oahu and want a true local place, make sure you stop in.

THE BAD SIDE:  I have no idea if it was the food, or something else, but right as I got back to work, I spent some time in the bathroom…repeatedly.  But the other two did not, so that might just be me.