Beijing Restaurant
There are a lot of Chinese restaurants in Hawaii. Today, you can find a wide range of Chinese restaurant Honolulu as well as throughout the Aloha State. You can find your typical chop suey houses that are located in many of the local neighborhoods. Here you can finds some good food at some really inexpensive prices. Particularly in the Downtown area, you can find some great hole in the wall places where you can get Hong Kong style noodles for lunch or dinner. And in Downtown and in the working class neighborhoods, you can also find some great places where you can get the local take out version of dim sum, called manapua.
Growing up in Hawaii, we never knew that such local favorites as crispy gau gee, which is basically a fried noodle, chicken and vegetable dish with fried dumplings, and cake noodles, another fried noodle dish, were unique only to Hawaii. You won’t find dishes like this in China or in anywhere else in the world.
Initially, the first Chinese restaurants Hawaii largely reflected the style of cooking from the Guandong southern area of China. As a result, most of us in Hawaii grew up on Cantonese style of Chinese cooking. The food was good, cheap and plentiful. Some iconic places where you could get great Cantonese style of cooking were at McCully Chop Suey, Kapahulu Chop Suey and Wo Fat. Those places are long gone and today you will find more types of Chinese foods reflecting culinary traditions from all parts of China, from cheap, hole in the wall places to five star establishments, like the Beijing Restaurant the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center in Waikiki.
