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- The Top Nine Best Cheap Eats in Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii. I'm Chris, this is Yellow Productions, this is part of my
travel series on Hawaii. You can find more of those in the links in the description or at
the end of this video, but in this video, I'll
be telling you about some of the tastiest
places to eat in Waikiki that are cheap, won't break your wallet, and are delicious, so, here we go. Located right along the
Waikiki Beach Boardwalk is the Steak Shack,
specializing in fast food steak. For $8.25, you get a styrofoam container with some steak, six ounces
of it, rice, and some salad. If you wanna pay a little more,
you can get some more steak. The seating options are
nice, they're outside overlooking the Boardwalk, or
you can take your steak to go and eat it at one of these tables in Fort DeRussy Beach Park,
looking out on Waikiki Beach. Paradise and steak, what
a great combination. My favorite place to eat in Waikiki just a five minute walk
down Beachwalk Drive is Tonkatsu Ginza Bairin. They have some of the most delicious pork katsu I've had anywhere. For about 15 bucks, you can get a katsu donburi, or katsu over rice. If they're too busy on the inside, you can get it to go and
take it to eat on the beach. A little cheaper if you get it to go. But this is one place that I
highly recommend you check out. The katsu is moist, juicy,
delicious, and pretty fast. You can seen down and get
your katsudon pretty quickly. For dessert, head just down the block to Henry's Place, the place that has this big mob of people outside
enjoying their ice cream. Henry's Place is known for their fruit ice creams and sorbets. 5.25 will get you a delicious ice cream or sorbet in a styrofoam cup. There's this freezer by the door, just look in there, it is
labeled with Sharpie ink on it. Trust me, they're all delcious. I get one every time I come to Waikiki and what I really like about
the ice cream at Henry's Place it tastes like real fruit,
this tastes like real mango. Mostly mango, a little
bit of ice cream, so if you only eat one dessert from my video, check out Henry's Place. Just between the kotsu place
and the ice cream place is this Pau Hana Market Waikiki, a collection of food trucks. I can't vouch for how
good any of them are, but they're all pretty cheap. Located in a one story,
nondescript building on Kuhio Avenue in the center
of Waikiki is Marukame Udon. It's a udon chain from Japan. They often have long lines. They've got these things set up here, in case you see a line out the
door, that means it's good. They specialize in
udon, which are noodles. You can get a bowl of noodles
here for as cheap as $3.75. Can't decide what you want? Well, like any good Japanese restaurant, they've got their plastic models of the food right in the window:
udon, tempura, and musubi. They've also got pictures as well. When you go inside, it's a self service counter type restaurant. You take your tray, you
go to the first station, you tell them what base you want, whether you want hot
noodles, cold noodles, kind of the major toppings you want on it, and then you go pick up any of the fried tempura things you want, and then you pay, and
then you go sit down. Soft drinks and water, self service. Just in the plaza behind Marukame Udon is Yummy Korean BBQ, a Hawaiian
take on Korean barbecue. My favorite: the Kal Bi plate. Korean short ribs, two scoops of rice, and some Korean sides. Two blocks south on
Kuhio is the Food Pantry. It is Waikiki's only supermarket. You can get some food here cheaper than the ABC stores, and they've
got their little mini-mart, the Food Pantry Express,
right out in front. These next two come as part of a pair, because they're right across
the street from each other. The first one is Me BBQ,
kind of like Yummy's. Yummy's is a chain; this
one's just got one location. Korean barbecue plate lunch place. They have 48 different
plate lunches you can get. Of course, my favorite's
gonna be the Kal Bi. 15 bucks will get you
the full order of Kal Bi, couple scoops of rice,
and some Korean sides. Right across the street from Me BBQ, which is why this is a
pair, is the Musubi Cafe. Musubi Cafe specializes
in Japanese rice balls. They're about two bucks each. These are all the different
Japanese ones they have, or you can get the
Hawaiian take on musubi, which you should, since you're in Hawaii, a little bit more
expensive, they're $2.50, but they are made with Spam. And they've also got rice bowls, curry, eel, beef bowls, for eight bucks or less. They've got a couple of
seats inside the Musubi Cafe, but the great thing about musubis is that they are an
immensely portable food. So why not take it a couple blocks down to the Boardwalk and
enjoy it on the beach? In case you're trying to
find the Musubi Cafe as well, basically located just in
from the big Banyan tree. That's that huge tree right here. You can't miss it if you're walking down the oceanfront boardwalk. The musubis come wrapped in
cellophane so they don't leak. They're a pretty neat food to eat. This one's got rice, seaweed,
spam, egg, and cucumber. It's pretty good, so if you
think you don't like Spam, wait 'til you give a Spam musubi a try, and you may have a difference
in opinion on this food. The next spot here, it's
in the center of Waikiki, in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping
Center, it's the food court. It's up on the second floor in the middle of the shopping center. There's about ten different cheap eat places that you can enjoy here. I think the standouts are the ramen place. You can get a bowl of ramen
for about eight bucks. And there's also Uncle
Tetsu's Japanese cheesecake. If you've never had
Japanese cheesecake before, nine bucks will get you one that's shareable amongst
a bunch of people. Check that out, give it a try. Or if you're a fan for your
more traditional dessert, check out Kulu Kulu Honolulu. Traditional desserts that
are really, really cute. Their number one best seller
is a strawberry shortcake, the unique flavor is
the tropical shortcake and they've also got
Hawaiian soft ice cream, which is a Japanese-style soft ice cream with Hawaiian ingredients. For the best Hawaiian
plate lunch near Waikiki, check out the Rainbow Drive In. It's about a 20 minute walk
from the south end of Waikiki, so I'd only walk here
if it was at night time. But they specialize in
the mixed plate, which, you get a plate that has
some fried mahi mahi, some teriyaki beef, and
some boneless chicken served over a bed of cabbage. Over here, we have two scoops of rice, put some soy sauce on top,
and some macaroni salad. That's about eight bucks
for that plate right there. I also got the Loco Moco Bowl, which has a sunny side up egg on
top of a hamburger patty with gravy and rice
underneath: truly delicious. When they call it a drive in, they don't mean a drive through. They mean a drive in;
it has a parking lot, you drive in, you park, you get out, and you order at the counter. There are four lines. Pro-tip, the right line is the fastest because it's also the phone order pickup. The seating is all outdoor seating at these picnic style table seats. Okay, that completes the top nine, but I have three more bonus entries. Bonus number one: Teddy's Bigger Burgers. This is my favorite
burger chain in Hawaii. They have a location in Waikiki. I cover it more in my
Maui Cheap Eats video, so if you wanna know more about Teddy's, check out that video, links
in the description below. Bonus number two is the
Makai Market Food Court at the Ala Moana Shopping Center. This is a bonus because it's technically just outside Waikiki, though
easily within walking distance. The Ala Moana Shopping Center food court is truly an amazing food court, and whenever I come to Waikiki, I love to come to the
Ala Moana food court. It's really big, it's really large, and it has a lot of food that you don't find in typical food courts. My favorite thing to eat here
is Blue Water garlic shrimp. They have a nine piece
garlic shrimp plate. Truly delicious, definitely
check that out if you're here. 15 bucks, delicious garlic shrimp. There's also a Yummy's Korean B-B-Q. Think Panda Express, but
Korean food; just better. A couple other notable places! CoCo Curry Ichibanya, Japanese curry, and Jollibee, Filipino
chicken and burgers. But I think one of the newest,
most interesting additions to the Ala Moana food
court is Kona Abalone. I can't vouch for how good it is, but it's really interesting to see a store that just specializes in, yes, abalone. But if you like Japanese
food, then there's another food court in Ala Moana
you should check out. It's this one, it's called Shirokiya, and the entrance is
from the parking garage. Shirokiya has 48 different
Japanese food vendors. It's a really impressive food court. They've got it decked out to
look like cherry blossom time. There's vendors here that sell ramen, gyoza, and even that Musubi Cafe that I showed you earlier is here. 48, too many to show, just check it out if
you come to Ala Moana. All right, well, that
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