I came for the shrimp tacos and I ended up wandering around and checking out other vendors. I am so…read morehappy that I ran into Nelly's tacos. When we visited, it rained a little on this day but that didn't stop us from enjoying some grindz. I have been on the hunt for really great tacos on the island. I had bought two tacos and they were two too little so after a few bites, I went back and ordered six more to share with my family who was visiting from out of town. The person running the food truck was so pleasant and kind. I enjoyed my first experience. I am already dreaming of my next bite and looking forward to my next 45 minute drive to Kahuku just for these tacos. I've gotta say the best food on this island is on wheels!

This place looks a little sketchy but the food was good and the guy in the old bus was real nice…read more We had a good meal and just watch out for the scavengers, cats all over waiting for you to feed them or drop food. They are expensive.

Great little taco spot. I was pleasantly surprised by the flavor. We stopped in about an hour…read morebefore closing and still received great service and great food.

Whoa! The best shrimp tacos I've ever had! Their hot sauce was also soooo good! Will definitely go…read moreagain before we leave!

Brah hands down best garlic shrimp on the island .. especially the spicy one . Came there again…read moretonight on Easter after a long drive through traffic and bradda hooked it up . Throw bradda a nice tip and your plate just might weigh a little extra .broke da mouth. This my first review I ever wrote From braddah Kai spears Yessah

Shrimp was amazing. Love the medium spicy garlic sauce. Steak was cooked to order, and also…read moreseasoned well. The potato salad was not bad, but was a little bland for my liking. Definitely fresh, and cooked to order quality. Service was great. Answered all our questions and told us up front what items has already sold out. Truck is located on the side of the highway, but plenty of room to park and stay safely out of traffic. Great grab and go, then hit the beach!

I def recommend this spot as well the burgers are super good, there is always a line so try to…read moreplace an order online if you can. There is indoor seating, and outdoor seating, the secret sauce is always really good, and their onion rings are really good as well. Ambiance is super sick its outdoor, and indoor, but def would recommend coming here after surfing, swimming at the nearby beaches. Mahalo!

Definitely worth the stop if you're on this side of the island! We checked out the bakery first,…read morethen grabbed food from the separate chicken sandwich shop. The chicken sandwich and fries were so good we ate every bite before I even thought to take a picture. The whole area has such a fun, relaxed vibe with lots of little shops and places to walk around, making it a great spot to spend some time instead of just grabbing a quick meal. The service was friendly and welcoming, which made the experience even better. We'll definitely be back!

This is one of the taco food trucks at the Polynesian Cultural Center. I ordered the chicken…read morenachos. And boy oh boy. A whole lot of chicken. Ingredients were fresh. And the service was quite nice. There is seating right out near the front and you can sit and enjoy your meal. By the way, we returned on Sunday and they are closed on Sunday and Wednesday.

So, my teenager got a bean and cheese burrito with rice and beans on the side and green salsa. She…read moresaid it was good. Unfortunately, she threw it up a couple of hours later (and then some) and felt sick the rest of the evening. But at least the food was good. ‍ lol

Sorry late post! This was about a month from posting this!…read moreMy family, bf, and I wanted to support food trucks today for our lunch, so we decided to head to the Kahuku Sugar Mill I wanted a garlic shrimp plate and this is usually my go-to spot. I love the garlic smears they leave on the rice and that it's almost like a paste (my preference lol). Though it is very oily/buttery (almost like a pool) where they have the shrimps- still really Ono! My dad wanted to try their squid and shrimp plate (garlic butter combo)- he said he enjoyed it! He requested no garlic on his rice. Overall, this has been my preferred garlic shrimp plate. I don't like the shrimp heads at the shells aren't too hard. There's some places and it's very crunchy. These ones aren't pretty soft so I don't have to worry about it hurting my lips when I suck the garlic off lol I do want to note that I had shrimp here once and it was a bit mushier than usual. This was a couple months ago, but all the other times, the shrimp has been a good texture

I am being brutally honest. I was extremely excited for this shrimp . I have never had bad garlic…read moreshrimp at any truck on the island. If I could give negative stars I would. Not sure if this was an off day, or if I got a bad batch of shrimp (everything else wasn't good either) but it was horrible. We walked around the entire food truck area trying to decide what we wanted. We came to this area for Da Bald Guy but he was sold out so on to the next option. Shrimp on the island is my go to and so I decided to try Famous. Their pictures on the menu looked great so I ordered a plate to split with my husband of spicy and garlic shrimp with two scoops of rice. It was $20. I paid as my husband went over to Mikes Huli Huli Chicken to see about getting an appetizer. My food came out super fast. Like almost too fast... My husband asked why it was so quick. I think I found out. We sat at the brewery bar area and grabbed a beer and opened the to go box. It looked good. The spicy was clearly spicier than the garlic shrimp. I grabbed a garlic shrimp and started to peel it and was having a hard time. It was not letting go of the shrimp. That is usually a sign that it was thawed incorrectly or overcooked. My guess was these were shrimp that were cooked earlier and sat... overcooking. Once I finally got the skin off and ate one the shrimp was grainy and super rubbery. They were gross. Absolutely gross. I took a scoop of rice and it was mushy. Again seems like it sat for a long time and over cooked. It was a ball of mush. I couldn't get back two bites before we threw it away. There goes $20 and sadly my confidence that all shrimp trucks on the island are magical and taste great.

Literally the best shrimp I ever had. Absolutely delicious!!…read more I don't say that lightly either. It was otherworldly!! The staff was great too!!!! I'll be back!

Giovanni's is one of those places where memory does a remarkable amount of the seasoning. I've been…read moreeating here across decades. Enough visits that this is no longer about catching them on a bad afternoon, ordering the wrong thing or failing to understand what the place is supposed to be. I've tried the different shrimp, stood in the lines, eaten at the tables, navigated the parking, brought people here and returned because, for a very long time, Giovanni's was simply one of those places you went when you were on this side of the island. At some point, repetition becomes evidence. The truck itself has become an artifact. Covered in signatures, battered by time, photographed millions of times. There was probably a period when all of that felt charming. Now it mostly feels tired. There is a difference between patina and neglect and the surrounding experience has increasingly crossed that line for me. Flies, crowded tables, overflowing activity, rough parking, heat, trash nearby. You can romanticize rustic only so far before rustic starts asking for a pressure washer. Then there is the service, which has consistently been the hardest part for me to understand. I don't need anyone performing hospitality like they're auditioning for a resort commercial, but basic warmth costs nothing. Too often the interaction here feels impatient and transactional, as though the customer is somehow inconveniencing the operation by showing up to buy the food. After enough visits, you stop calling that an off day. And then there is the plate. The shrimp itself is actually the least offensive part. It is generally cooked reasonably well. Tender enough, rarely destroyed and when you get a good batch you can understand why this formula became so popular. Everything around it drags it down. The rice has repeatedly been soft, clumped and bordering on mushy. I am annoyingly particular about rice, but rice is not some decorative substance placed beneath the main event. It matters. When half the plate is rice, screwing it up is not a minor detail. The garlic is abundant, certainly, but abundance and care are different things. It often arrives more like a wet mass of processed garlic than the fragrance and texture you get from properly chopped fresh cloves. Add the butter and oil and you certainly get intensity, but after several bites the whole thing becomes heavy rather than interesting. The little salad on the side generally feels like an afterthought that has been waiting for someone to remember it. And that is ultimately my problem with Giovanni's. The entire experience feels as though its reputation arrived at the destination years before the restaurant did and everyone decided there was no longer much reason to keep improving. People will continue coming. Of course they will. The name is famous, the truck is recognizable, the photographs are practically mandatory and nostalgia is one hell of a business model. I understand it because it worked on me for years. But strip away the mythology and ask a brutally simple question: If this exact plate came from an unknown truck with no history, no signatures and no reputation, would you still wait in line for it? I wouldn't. Two stars. The shrimp can still be decent and I have too many memories here to pretend the place means nothing to me. But nostalgia should bring you back to a restaurant. It shouldn't be responsible for making the food taste better. I kept returning because tradition can turn habit into taste. I'm done confusing the two.

Where there's a will there's a way. I had a top 5 burger of…read moremy life here. The Paniolo is a must try. Everything here was keeping it 100. These guys are out here aura farming no cap. Might be the best onion rings I've ever had and fries all done in tallow. Staff was friendly and supper accommodating. I have to go back to try a couple of other things hopefully I'll remember to get a photo then. Don't listen to the impatient haters in the older reviews. They are in Hawaii and still complaining?? Big mistake. Cheers guys and keep up the aloha.

In the sleepy town of Laie on the North Shore of Oahu, my son and I stopped into Seven Brothers to…read moretry their signature burger and fries. We were welcomed into the small hole-in-the-wall restaurant in a neighborhood strip mall by a young woman named Telani. Telani could not have been more excited to tell us everything there was to know about the entire menu and the history of the family who owned it. Telani was so genuinely interested in us and asked question after question that made us feel like we were celebrities that had just walked into a small town diner. Telani is the star of this story, but I want to mention that the other two employees left a positive impression as well, amazing service is clearly a culture at this restaurant. Our shake took a little longer than usual because they were accommodating a young boy with a severe peanut allergy. At the end of our meal, Telani walked over and handed us a personalized postcard that she had written to commemorate our visit! This 17-year-old medical student at BYU Hawaii just put my own customer service expectations to absolute shame. I cannot wait to get back to my hotel staff and share this story and hopefully inspire them to start writing some postcards of their own. I've just finished writing one of my own. P.S. All the food was AMAZING! We got the Shez's paniolo burger, the Sterlings teriyaki burger, the paniolo fries, the banana bread, and a vanilla shake with Nutella and Oreo. Gonna have to hit the hotel treadmill hard tomorrow.