It feels like I just keep returning to this place (like every month LOL), but the food is so…read moreappetizing and I have major FOMO, which the Shioketh team seems to be good at inducing! Their rotating menu means that whatever I end up enjoying might not be available in the near future. At the end of January, my friends and I ordered the Beef Rendang Combo with Sambal Goreng and Fried Egg (always good), Roti John (so good), Blooming Eggs (always good), Veggie Spring Roll, Pandan Waffle with Nutella (super sweet but so good), and 3 Combo Deals of a drink and Kaya Bun: Pandan Iced Coffee, Watermelon Cucumber Spritzer, Bandung Fizzy. The Bandung Fizzy has a nice rose flavor which was new to me. At the end of February, my group ordered: 2 portions of the Nasi Lemak, a Nonya Vegetable Curry, 2 orders of the Fried Gao Spring Rolls, and the Pandan Bun Combo Deal, with the drinks being Lychee Spritzer, Mango Cream Soda, and Pandan iced coffee. In early April, we ordered: Singaporean Laksa, Salted Egg Popcorn Chicken Plate, Blooming Egg, Pandan Iced Coffee, Watermelon Cucumber Spritzer, Mango Iced Tea, Pandan Waffle, Strawberry Matcha Sorbet, and Strawberry Pitaya Shrubae. In mid-April we ordered Punggol Mee Goreng, Ginger Fried Chicken, Mango Iced Tea, Lychee Iced Tea, Yuzu Fizzy, and Pandan Frozen custards. In mid-May we ordered Hainanese Fried Chicken, Curry Bak Mee, Pandan iced coffee, Pandan matcha coco cloud, and Kaya Toast frozen custard. I repeat myself when I say that the quality of food has been consistently satisfying. Shioketh is a rare Singaporean food offering on Oahu, and it has exposed me to unique dishes that I cannot forget. (The Roti John is something I still think about to this day.) Sometimes the Shioketh team brings you your food, and sometimes you go to the counter to retrieve your order. I'm fine either way because it's a smaller venue. We always choose to dine in, and we get here early (between 11 and 12) so that we *can* dine in. The head chef Emily usually makes the rounds to greet customers, and she's seen me enough times to recognize me as a regular (LOL). This practice of hers helps lend a feeling of community in the air.

After visiting Singapore many years ago, we enjoyed the flavorfulness and spiciness of the street…read morefood at the hawker stands, which was a mixture of Indonesian, Malay and Singaporean cultures. Occasional eateries have opened in HI offering this cusine, however, many were short-lived. In 2014, Emily Terukina immigrated to HNL from Singapore with her husband, Gavin. She worked as a host and kitchen helper at the Pig & the Lady. After missing her native home cuisine, she left the Pig & the Lady to open her own restaurant pop-up at the Hapa Market and Grill in Palolo called Shioketh on 9/7/24. Emily uses her traditional recipes to display the authentic flavors while growing up in Singapore, with slight adaptations to the likes of the local residents of HI. Huband Gavin oversees the back end of the restaurant's operations, including graphics and web design. Emily chose the name "Shioketh," which is a Singaporean/Malaysian slang term meaning: * "Shiok" = delicious, pleasurable, superb or highly satisfying and frequently used to describe a great meal. * "Shooketh" = a slang for shaken/surprised. She hopes to provide fun, casual food options of Singaporean flavors that leave her guests both satisfied and craving for more. Generallly open on Saturdays only, Shioketh offers a rotating, limited weekly menu that includes: * Entrees: laksa curry, beef rendang (Indonesian curry), ayam penyet (crispy Malay chicken), nasi lemak (coconut rice with chicken and egg), crispy wonton with noodles. * Sides: sambal goreng (stir-fried tofu, long beans, tempeh, shallots); blooming eggs. * Desserts: pandan waffle, Kaya sweet bun. * Drinks: Pandan iced coffee, bandung/yuzu fuzzy, mango cream soda, lychee/watermelon cucumber spritzer, iced teas. I had the following: * Salted egg popcorn chicken plate. Super crispy popcorn chicken tossed in a creamy, spicy salted egg sauce and finished with fried curry leaves, served with jasmine rice. Delicious, flavorful, seasoned sauce that was fiery spicy that complemented the chicken and Jasmine rice topped with garlic chips! Excellent spicy sauce that had me wanting to eat more and more! * Ginger fried chicken with fragrant chicken rice. Crisp, juicy ginger-marinated chicken fried with garlic, curry leaves, and blended macadamia for subtleness. Paired w/ fragrant chicken rice infused with ginger aromatics and war spices. I expected the chicken or the sauce to be spicy, but both were not; however, I enjoyed the spices that they were cooked in! Yum, very delicious! The juicy chicken is best eaten when freshly fried and dipped into the sauce for the best flavors! * Pandan coffee. This was a cold brew coffee topped with pandan coconut cold foam and sweetened with gula melaka palm sugar. I enjoyed the rich and creamy coffee with the subtle taste of the pandan foam! Very refreshing! As the weekly menus change, I plan to check Shioketh's Instagram site to see what food items will be offered on future dates. And if I see a menu item that interests me, I will preorder before the Saturday to guarantee having it. Staff is very friendly and knowledgeable about the menu items. Since I had preordered the food items and coffee, they were ready at the time of pick-up. There are a few tables for dine-in, and when we arrived at the peak of the lunch hour, all seats were taken. However, I had previously ordered online for takeout to ensure that the food items would not be sold out. Note that even if you dine in or take out, all food items are served in take-out containers and are made to order to ensure freshness and quality. Shioketh is generally open on Saturdays only from 11a to 3p, unless it is participating in private events; check their Instagram posts a few days prior for their schedule. Free parking in private lot shared with Hapa Market and Grill. I look forward to trying more of the different dishes offered! Love the delicious Malaysian cuisine with the accompanying spiciness, the authenticity of the menu, and the friendly staff that make this an amazing dining experience! I am glad that Shioketh has garnered a loyal following over the past year and wish them continued success. Support local!

We had dinner here tonight and it was delicious. It was our first time here and I've have never had…read morebroken rice, so the waiter patiently and very kindly helped me. A little later a party of 6 came in and sat next to us and they had similar questions as I and he was so nice to them too. I don't know why it took me so long to try this place. I ordered the shaking tofu and my husband ordered the tofu vegetable vermicelli noodles. We were both very happy with our dinner. I have never had shaking tofu ...it was amazing! Food came out quickly, service was prompt. I'm definitely coming back. It's a cute spot with beautiful photos of Vietnam on the walls. Makes me want to visit Vietnam.

I have been here when they first opened and thought it was ok but haven't been back in a while…read more The restaurant is family owned so they don't have much help. There was only the one man taking all the orders and busing the tables so it took awhile. We ordered our food which took 25 minutes to arrive I had the lemon grass chicken vermicelli which was very tasty, had a good amount of chicken it needed more noodles. My husband had the shaking beef which was basically beef with rice. Portion sizes were on the small side so we definitely had to get dessert after. Overall very good flavor but small portions for a higher price. There are a lot of Vietnamese restaurants in this area so I would probably go to the other ones and save this one as a last resort

Finally got to try this. Tasted straight out of Taiwan. No complaints! Watch out for all the sticky…read moremonkeypads on the ground!

Authentic Taiwanese pork belly bun. Friendly and fast service. The buns are made to order so you…read moremay have to wait 10 min or so. It's located at the Kaka'ako Farmers Market on Saturday on the side with the sugarcane juice and butterfly chrysalis. It's take away only then you can try to find a spot to sit at a communal table. My favorites are the pork belly and the braised tofu. Also try their braised tea egg.

5-15/26 @10:45am or five minutes after 11am…read more ... anyway let's put it this way if I was to go back over there the one thing that I will be getting more of is the japanese andagi. ... I've seen this place so many times and I've even been to their neighbor which is the rainforest cafe- (exceptional Italian cream soda / like egg soda) I love the Lilikoi tart they have there. This time I actually went to get something and didn't realize they do sell "Andagi" I also bought a small thing of okinawin yakisoba. And two pieces of sweet mochi Truly not a disappointment. In fact this has that very open Okazuya style of takeout most times it does have order ahead in there were a few people before I bought my food that had larger orders to pick up so it is recommended that you call them ahead of time. They're very gracious people that work in there they're very kind. They're very courteous and they're very quick with the order. I don't believe I saw the yakisoba in the menu, but I seen it when I got to the window and the mochi ball and Andagi are very close to the counter window I highly recommend anyone who is in and around the area for a quick grab on a local favorite of a Japanese doughnut to come to this spot because the andagi- is much to appreciate it's one of these things that we know here in Hawaii to have that nice texture, The nice first crisp bite into the donut and then it leads into that delicious sweet cake doughnut part in the middle what we know as a Japanese donut, this carries its respected delightful reality... stop by this place because for $1.00 a piece... it's a crowd pleaser... I should have bought 10 of those things.. it's delicious when fresh and they keep really well into the end of the day.. Also I would definitely go back for the yakisoba the way it's made is delicious and I am one of those people that loves a good entrée that won't have meat or sometimes not even a hint of meat and this noodle dish is very good. I love how the vegetables were intertwined into the noodles sort of just not perfectly chopped, but it is tangled into the noodles as if it was another soba noodle- the carrots, spring onions, and if you see the accompanying picture- cabbage & or chopped boy choy. Thank you Teruya's Andagi. I will return

i would've loved to love teruya but i did not. i just didn't and i have no shame in disliking this…read morecute local business because i am a professional big back and a picky one at that. $10-12 price range for bentos - they have chicken, shrimp tempura etc. and some vegetarian options and mochi. we got garlic chicken and tempura bentos, they came with 4-5 sides like tamago roll, potato salad thing, sausage thing, eggplant thing IDK THE NAME SORRY service was nice. seems like it's run by grandmas. i am a professional grandma lover too. location on a small strip in between vons chicken and a barbershop. food - basically everything was very oily. it just tasted okay. chicken could've been crispier and had more depth. the potato salad was good, reminiscent of a potato stirfry dish my mom makes...but it was a bit too salty. the other sides were either kinda bland or not special. i did like the sweet potato mochi though! nice and fried like my dead hair overall 3 stars for service and the mochi yay

I have been craving Indonesian food and it's really hard to find since it's not a common cuisine…read moreoutside Netherlands or Southeast Asia. So I was so happy to find this. This is a catering/at home business that I found through Facebook. I sent the owner a message asking what dishes on her weekly menu were vegetarian and she responded within minutes with pictures and explanations. I was so excited by it I ordered all the options. Pickup: I arranged a pickup time and met her outside within minutes of messaging. Food: everything was delicious! My favorite were the appetizers, the veggie fritters and fried tempeh. The tempeh stir fry was legit and very spicy but I knew what I was getting into and thoroughly enjoyed it. Wishing this business and the sweet owner nothing but the best!

***FYI: If you want to see more updated weekly Indonesian food items, please go to her Facebook…read more'Hawaii Bali Food Indonesia' *** As promised from my 2023 review, I finally tried out her cooking class! Invited 3 of my friends and my boyfriend to try out Loliana's private Indonesian cooking class with me. Here's how the process goes. A day before the cooking class she will send you directions of where to park at her apartment and then she will meet you on the visitor floor. Once you enter in the apartment, there will be a table of all the ingredients of all the foods you will be cooking today. We then took a picture in front of the table of ingredients with our cooking certificates (best to take the picture now so you won't look tired haha). We put on our aprons and washed our hands to get ready to watch Loliana do some cooking demonstrations. Here's the food we chose for the lesson: Team Veggies: *Balinese spring rolls *Gado gado salad rolls *Vegetarian Nasi goreng *Cauliflower chicken wings with buffalo sauce Team Chicken: *Balinese chicken spring rolls *Chicken Nasi goreng *Chicken satay My biggest recommendation is to start the cooking lesson early morning like 7am or 8am because you'll be cooking for 4-5 hours. Some of the sauces to add in the meats are tedious to prepare so Loliana premade it in advance to help cut down the hours but she will show what ingredients was needed to make it. It was a really fun hands on cooking experience! The dish that I enjoyed making the most was the Chicken satay! I would most recommend trying out this cooking experience!

My new favorite Thai place Food is flavorful…read more Service is friendly The restaurant is small and clean

ahhhhhh went to sabb thai for the first time last night and it was sooo good. it was empty :( but…read morethe aunty helping us was the sweetest. we ordered the pork cheek salad, it was giving beef waterfall salad but pork. it was delishhhh. i think i prefer this over beef. aunty also made her own garlic chili sauce that was fireee. at the end of the meal, she made us some eggplant jeow to take home and some vegetable soup. u know this aunty cares cause all she does is wanna feed you. please support this business. i think we found our new favorite thai spot! can i get a W aunty? follow my foodie ig page: smolgirlfatass

Farmers Market find…read more.. After a very long work week with many issues I decided to visit our local farmers market at Kaka'ako and with lots of choices it's so difficult to decide especially with some that are quite particular in taste not wanting the usual morning meal I decided on the Mazemen at Ezogiku Ramen. You can find them every Saturday 8am-12 noon at the Kaka'ako Farmers Market at the 919 side the opposite of Kewalo Basin and with some seatings available right at their storefront as well enjoying it al is very quick and easy. Mazemen is a broth-less ramen so there no worries of some hot soup though there is broth at the bottom hence "maze" means mix in Japanese as there's broth at the bottom. There was a choice of three Original, Curry and Vegan Tofu so I chose curry and is topped so beautiful that I had to capture before he covers it as it may get messed up in transit though as I watched my friend consume it all I'd say it was good and a success. The service is nice and friendly along with the whole farmers market vibe though come early to beat the crowd and you'll find seats easily along with the heat as it does get pretty hot but a great find for a quick and easy meal. Thank you!

Note: This review is for their mobile location at What the Truck…read more Outstanding, fresh ceviche. Finally, one that uses a controlled amount of at least partially ripened limes and lemon lacking the sharp, sour, citrusy burn. It is also lightly seasoned so the tomatoes, cucumbers and onions retain their texture and crispness for hours. The both the shrimp and fish versions feature fresh seafood with a clean, mild flavor with a tender yet developed chew. Sauces and two tostadas packaged separately for DIY assembly. Tip: Grab a pack of your favorite tostadas from neighboring Safeway. You're gonna want to eat more than just two. Fairly priced. In its own way, surpasses the best on the Island, a certain place with "cartel" in its name for the simple fact that it is NOT overly seasoned allowing it to be enjoyed over time with a few drinks.

Last night, I got a container ($20) of that mixed ceviche at the What the truck!? Market at Waikele…read moreCenter and I have to tell you...This is by far the best ceviche I have had on the island! I love the ambience of the vendor set up (simple and clean) with the ceviche containers were over ice and the guy who was selling the ceviche was nice. They gave to go tostadas, a cup of mayo and salsa with the ceviche. It was delicious and I'd recommend it to anyone. Tip: spread the mayo on the tostadas, add the ceviche to your tostada then top it with the salsa. It is finger licking good!