Eating on Oahu: Other Tidbits

Click below to read about where I found afternoon snacks, bought an excessive amount of macadamia nuts, and my favourite stops on Oahu.

Liliha Bakery

Liliha Bakery's famous Coco Puffs

A funny story that goes with my experience with Liliha is that on my first visit, I arrived to a locked door. They are open 24/7, but just closed on Mondays. And of course, with my type of luck, I happened to pay a visit on a Monday. Fail for my foodie homework. 

Thankfully, the Island of Oahu is not very large, so a second trip to Liliha is only a short car ride away from Waikiki. Liliha Bakery sells very homestyle-looking baked goods, and they have a lot of it too. Their products  are relatively cheap here, so you can afford to try a few things. My family purchased coco puffs (or cream puffs), coconut danish, and a lemon coconut bar. But out of those three goods, I would only recommend the puffs. Specifically the original coco puff (coco custard centre with a different type of cream on top. Chantilly?) or the green tea one. The others would not be worth mentioning. Make a trip to Liliha purely for their coco puffs, because their puff exploding with custard is delicious.

Din Tai Fung 鼎泰豐 - Bun time!

Eating on Oahu: Meals

I did an adequate amount of foodie homework before flying to Honolulu for a family vacation. Here is where my research brought me.

Blue Water Shrimp & Seafood Market

Pink Snapper at Blue Water Shrimp & Seafood Market

Inside the International Marketplace in Waikiki is a food court with plenty of good eats to be found. This was our first meal in Hawaii and we ordered two plates of pink snapper as I have seen many people review this dish online. Another contributing factor was the $2 off coupon I discovered in one of those tourist booklets. 

It is delicious and well worth the $12 we paid; one and a half large pieces of snapper perfectly deep fried topped with a pineapple salsa with accompanying corn niblets and a green salad. My mom had low expectations for a food court dish and was pleasantly surprised at the good quality. She also appreciated how it was served on a hard plastic plate as opposed to styrofoam. 

Breakfast is served until 11am, and the menu looks tasty and cheap! I would recommend this place for some quality fish dishes.