There were only about 4-5 food trucks when I visited, and it felt small. Around 6 PM, the area had…read morevery few people. There was some live music, but it seemed more like a quick stop for tourists rather than a real night market. I didn't try any food because the atmosphere wasn't appealing, so I left quickly.

Came here when it was less crowded the seating area is big wide open with chairs, tables, and a…read moregreen luscious outdoor view. There were only a few vendors like maybe 4 trucks at the time we got a plate from a vendor called "Wasabi Express by Tiger" the white woman who most likely also works with the main chef randomly approached us recommends it for my partner and I says it's going to taste great it's made fresh daily,, said why not we came for a trip but honestly it was mid and this is why I don't listen to people but realistically I should've just dogged it in my opinion; understand it's Hawaii we are in a touristy spot, but too overpriced for something that tastes like yoshinoya meat and rice that tastes just like fried rice from a regular Chinese takeout

The old nostalgia 50th state fair........the place I loved as a child as it was the only cool rides…read moreI could get on (didn't get to go to real theme parks until college haha). How it's the same but NOT the same lol. Like every one else you have power cards and gone are the scrips. My favorite ride I still the zipper. Now coming from a father perspective.....aka wallet.....WOOF lol. $9 parking, rides and games are few bucks or more per person. Food is a whooping $15-20+ per meal lol. A Hundo $$ don't last very long......and I only have my wife and son. We had the gyro and waffle fries, forget the spots name....but that was delicious. . Greet job to all you parents with more kids, haha. However being able to see the utter joy, excitement, and fun my son had on that evening makes it all worth it..........BUT not again until next year haha.

I haven't been to the 50th State fair like almost 25 years omgeee.. Things have have changed a lot…read morefor one thing everything is now on a pre-paid card lol. So it's 200 points for $20 and 1500 points for $100. All rides average 30points and that's only because Sunday 12n-6pm is at a discount. It could be more in the evening. Compared to long time ago there's less rides and game booths. The pre-paid cards is also good for games and food booths . They do not except any cash at the game booths anymore. It was a new experience for me but I guess it's easier that way plus more efficient. It was very hot on a Sunday afternoon but my grand nephew had fun that's the main thing . We also had pizza and cotton candy to bring home . I guess due to Covid19 it's hard to maintain workers so EK Fernandez have to go on a smaller scale carnival. It was smaller than I could remember way back when . Support local so they can still be in business

This is one of the smaller bon dances on the island, but they still have the two things that every…read morebon dance has - dancing, and delicious food. It's usually held for two nights in early August, and it seems to get more and more crowded every year. The event starts with food for sale at 6pm, followed by Taiko drum performances and then the dancing. The festivities take place in the church's parking lot, which fills up quickly, so it's best to come early to kapu a place to sit. Bring your own chairs. Parking is tight in this neighborhood - which is another reason to come down early.

Parking is tough to find but worth the effort! Always a fun time! Okinawan dancing later...good…read morefood and music!

Inaugural event. So definitely room for improvement. They definitely need more space for people to…read moresit and a bigger dance area. Also maybe open up the event earlier so that there is not a sudden rush for the food booths/trucks that there are long lines the whole night. Other than it was a great event with lots of live and recorded music.

*Disclaimer: This review is from the viewpoint of a volunteer…read more The Inagural Megabon Festival was a large community project hosted by Jaycee chapter JCI Honolulu. Most local chapters were there providing volunteer support, especially my chapter the Hawaii Kai Jaycees. Before the day of the event volunteers such as myself picked up their volunteer packets, which included detailed information of the roles and responsibilities we were assigned to and our volunteer shirt. Upon checking in our group was directed to our game tent. We were in charge of the yo-yo sukui game. We were feed somen noodles (thank you!). Key take aways and room of improvement: 1. First of all, I congratulate JCI Honolulu on hosting this successful event! Looking forward in this being an annual event in the years to come. 2. I hope the space gets expanded next year, there was a point where I felt it got over-crowded. 3. Some of our volunteers in our group were augmented away and we felt short-handed at our game station. We did receive assistance later on that evening but my hope is that more volunteers will be recruited to cover. Again, great community event!

STEVE's AKAKA FALLS FARM Jams, Butters & Honey: This review…read moreis specifically for Steve's Akaka Farms Giving them 5 stars for their great tasting jams, butters, and honey! Giving 5 stars for Katy, who works at the Pearlridge Farmers Market location in Saturdays. She is a ray of sunshine, with her great smile and loves to share samples of their product. Be careful, though because when you taste the delicious products you'll have to get something! Their passion fruit habanero is amazing with cream cheese and crackers or as a glaze for meats. If you combine it with cream cheese it softens the heat. They do have one with ghost peppers or Caroline Reaper peppers but beware - I bought it for my friend who loves heat and she said it's really hot! They have amazing butters - try any of their chocolate butters and you'll think you are in heaven! Note-these are seasonal so there may be different ones available when you visit. Award winning Coconut black chocolate is absolutely amazing, rich, and decadent and the best way to eat this is to get a big spoonful then just sit there and savor the flavor. The Kona coffee dark chocolate is also amazing. Hard to decide which is better! Got a jar if passion fruit Hawaiian pepper (chili pepper) smoked pineapple Kentucky whiskey to use as a glaze for meat. Can't wait to use it. These also make great gifts to send to or give to suiting folks from the mainland to give them a taste of Hawaii. I like the POG jam for islanders who have relocated to the mainland because it's like a taste of home. Kona coffee butter and mango are also divine. I have the mango for me...! I also got a jar of the mango honey and it's marvelous, too! These are high quality and a bit pricey, but after going to the craft fair at the Blaisdell, the prices are not too much more if not comparable. ...AND they are available weekly! If you go and sample a flavor you like, be sure to ask if it's seasonal (such as mango) or not. If it's seasonal - get it. It may not be available again until the next season. Me

Stumbled across the Pearlridge Farmers Market only because I had to kill some time because my car…read morewas being serviced across the street @ Firestone. 1st time here and poor thing very small Farmers market with probably less than 30vendors . A mix array of vegetables, produce and food booths. In the middle there's a small tent for dinning along with live entertainment. I walked around less than 10mins nothing really cached my eye . It's hard nowadays because on a Saturday other big farmers market is going on ! The KCC and Kakaako farmers Market is also on a Saturday. Support local

You will not believe that last night 2/6/2026 was my first time here! VIRGIN LOL!…read more Located in the Waikele Shopping Center (lot where the old K Mart was). Parking was so easy to find, we got there a little after 5 pm. First place we stop at was Mama Mercy's but they didn't have her famous empanadas, so then we headed to Joja's for their smash burgers and truffle fries. We were happy we got in line because shortly after, they were sold out. We ordered two smash burgers and truffle fries and the wait was a little over an hour but I must say, it was the best burger I ever had!!! The fries were perfectly fried and so damn tasty!!! While waiting we ordered food from a Himalayan food vendor and my goodness, soooooo good (we wanted to try foods that we normally don't eat). We also got drinks, Sunrise from Dragon Teagirls was the best, the Smashed Lemons lemonade was a little too sweet for me but it was still yummy (I gave the rest to my boyfriend who was at home lol). The strawberry shortcake parfait from Ruby's ended our food and it was perfectly delicious! It started pouring rain pretty heavy and we retreated to Grandma's Pasteles where the owner gave us a free pastele empanada that was so delicious and we bought 12 Pasteles (11 frozen and 1 fresh). There was alot of people and the best part is that it's pet friendly! Lots of room to walk (I hate super crowded places) around and check out all the vendors there. I will definitely head back there whenever I can, BEST FIRST EXPERIENCE EVER!!!!

What the Truck is always a good choice for our family because we live very close and everyone gets…read moresomething they want. Barbecue, lechon, corndogs, mochi, churro sundaes, naan, teas, coffee, vaifala, & pork hash. I usually go for something barbecued or grilled just because it seems like they are making a lot of effort to be there and it smells so good.

All Vendors are hand picked and "invited" to participate in this craft fair. Shop in air…read moreconditioned comfort. Take a detour from the west bound traffic shop and have dinner. Lots of Tsum Tsum items, gifts baskets, t-shirts, blankets, HECO Cookbook and so much more!

This actually breaks my heart because I was so excited about this. My friend suggested we go and…read moregot a Groupon for tickets - $15 a piece - and so we all went on Saturday. Coming from Washington, I was thinking a Bumbershoot-esq festival with what the name suggests - music, art, and food. But what we got Bumbershoot's sad cousin who no one talks to because they're kinda obnoxious. Considering this is not Seattle, I thought of what Bumbershoot in Hawaii would look like: Eat The Street meets Night Market meets Art + Flea. Sadly, that's not what I got. We got to the stadium a few hours after the festival had already started on Saturday and had to pay for parking - this was annoying enough after already paying for the event, something that doesn't happen often at a lot of big, festival-esq events here. But we got parked and walked in to find... not much. Nobody seemed to be there in the middle of the day on a Saturday - plus one for not being crowded, but also you kind of expect crowds at these events, right? I'll give it to them, there WAS music, art, and food. But the music was isolated to one "main stage" all by itself off to the side, the food was a bunch of random places I've never heard of alongside a Jack In The Box, Papa Johns, and Jamba Juice tents, and the art was technically local artists, but only maybe two or three tents fill with what I expect when you say the words "arts festival." All the tents were awkwardly spread out and located so there was no real flow. There was a beer garden located waaaay across the parking lot by itself and a few rickety rides that looked like the rejects from Punahou Carnival. AND you needed scripts to do anything. After paying to get in, paying for parking, laying everything out all wonky, they make you exchange all your money for scripts to make it that much more difficult. It makes no sense to me. We lasted maybe an hour there before we gave up and headed home. I believe this is the first time this festival has ever been, so I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt and say that it may get better. I have high hopes as I'd love these types of events and want to see them do well. But if you're charging somewhere around $30 for regular priced tickets and then only offer what I saw... I'm gonna go out to eat a restaurant with a live band and then go shopping later and call it good. Step up your game!

I was not impressed with the honolulu music art and food festival. Entering aloha stadium there was…read morea parking fee of 5 bucks. As we walked towards the festival it seemed very quiet. It was easy to maneuver through the lot as there was not much cars. There was a tent to check in and a stamp that was given for entry. Well I must say instead of being greeted by a bustle of people, loud music, and drinks there was a huge gap of emptiness. The signage for the festival was almost nonexistent once entering. I saw more of the Spartan banner then anything. There was a tent that sold t shirts for 10 bucks which did not get much attention. The fact that this festival was supposed to raise money for kids I felt more effort should've been given. Especially when people base most of their experiences on their first impression. I did feel sad that not much people were there to listen to the band. As for the art aspect not much was really displayed. I believe more was offered at the aloha swap meet on Wednesdays. There was not an abundance of food variety as I had envisioned at a festival. It was ok, but they did not accept cash. You needed to trade it in for tickets at the script tent. I bought a crazy corn from one of the tents which was delicious. The seasonings on the fresh grilled corn makes me want to buy a grill lol. Onto the kid section, I would've thought the petting zoo be more spacious. We ended up speaking to a mom with kids that felt everything was overpriced and not worth the admission price. Maybe an arts and craft table should have been implemented as one of their activities. There was a performance going on to entertain the kids. Oh and there was a bulldog dog show going on as well. I did enjoy that one very much. I'm only reviewing my overall experience perhaps someone else felt differently. :) I may attend next year if they can just tighten upthe loose ends. The proceeds raised may then be better for the kids:)