My Travels in Pictures- Hawaii's O'ahu, 2009: Places to eat

Places to eat on Hawaii's O'ahu Island:

Zippy's, a chain store with affordable cuisine featuring main dishes craved for by the locals with sides of white rice and macaroni salad.


Zippy's featured dish, garlic miso chicken with white rice and macaroni salad.


Zippy's chili and white rice with fried chicken. Hawaiian's like their chicken sweet.


Rainbow Drive-in, located not too far from Diamond Head has a excellent breakfast plate.

Rainbow Drive-in's Scrambled eggs over white rice with slices of grilled Portuguese sausage.
Rainbow Drive-in's breakfast place same as above with soy sauce and sugar based barbecue beef.


A tall glass of pale ale made by Big Wave at The Colony located in the Waikiki Hyatt Regency.


Yellowtail nigiri sushi at The Colony.



If you are going to eat at a steakhouse, there is only one way to eat. A fillet minion with a loaded baked potato.



A breakfast item of smoked salmon slices over tomato slices with a toasted bagel on the bottom.
Various Hawaiian, Mainland US and Japanese dishes at the Polynesian Culture Center.

Restaurant Suntory, in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Mall in Honolulu. Suntory is known as a beverage giant in Japan. Years ago, they were in the fine dining teppan yaki business.




Suntory beer, a rare find outside Japan.

White fish sashimi with a garden salad and dipping sauces to be used for the cooked items to follow.

Surf n' Turf consisting of shrimp, lobster, beef and vegetables. Beef was a hybrid of American black angus and Japanese wagyu, known as washugyu.

Miso soup, fried rice and Japanese pickles.

Kozo sushi in Kaneohe Bay. This chain can be found in California under the name, Sushi Boy.

Smoked salmon nigiri sushi.

Combination nigiri sushi (L to R) tamago, octopus, shrimp, squid and tuna.

Kuru Kuru Sushi in Aiea/Pearl City. This place features kaiten style service where the sushi dishes are prepared in the back of the restaurant and brought to the waiting customers via a conveyor.


Salmon nigiri sushi with hot tea with the conveyor in the background at Kuru Kuru Sushi.

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