I’ve passed by this place several times thinking, one day, I’m gonna give it a try. One day finally came and I did stop, checked out the menu and thought, “no thanks, nothing really sounds that enticing or cheap enough to convince me it’s enticing,” so I left. Finally I made my way back to this place again and thought, “fuck it, let’s give it a shot.”

There’s a few tables to the side of the building. Grab them fast or you’ll find yourself eating in the car or taking your food home.

Ray was in the mood for Banana Pancakes today, $6.50. A stack came with three large fluffy pancakes topped with powdered sugar and was accommodated with three packets of syrup and some butter.

You can see big chunks of banana in the pancakes and when Ray realized he had mowed through half the pancakes without even asking me if I wanted to give it a taste, he says, “wow, these are really hitting the spot right now.” I’m so happy those pancakes are working out for you.

I got the breakfast special, $6.50. It came with eggs, cooked the way you like, your choice of meat, I picked polish sausage, and white or brown rice, I chose white.  If you like you could also add substitute fried rice for $1.50.  In my opinion $1.50 is a lot to pay to substitute a small about of rice. It was a nice surprise to see a piece of biscuit inside because the menu didn’t mention it. I didn’t realize until I got half way through that I was really going to finish the whole plate. Everything was really good and my plate hit the spot quite nicely just as well. I cut up my pieces of sausage and sliced up my egg and just mixed it all together with some soy sauce and pepper. I hate it when my food and eggs come out super greasy and as you can see nothing was too greasy here.

Overall I think I like this place. The prices are alright and the food is really good. They also have a full menu for lunch or just come and visit the market inside. It doesn’t hurt to look and there’s a ton of stuff to see. If your not hungry now, don’t worry you will be later. You can pick out premade, not frozen meals that you can cook up later. There’s lots of wine, bread and my favorite, dessert. Oh, there’s also premade salads and wraps for you healthier folks. Come, check, check, check it out.

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Diamond Head Market & Grill
3575 Campbell Ave
Honolulu, HI 96815

Get Directions(808) 732-0077

On this day we decided to head over to DMV to register to vote. This was a pretty stupid idea because as most of you probably already know a trip to the local DMV usually sucks donkey dick. Our visit to the DMV was no different. The lady that took our paper work was a dirty cunt bag. Since we hardly come to this side of town we decided to stay and eat up. The first place that caught our eye was this place called Noodle Me House of Ramen and Curry. At first glance one would think it’s a children’s store or maybe a google store because of its colorful sign but if you actually read the sign you’ll see it’s a noodle house.

With the exception of the table behind me this was the dining part of the restaurant.

The man that took our order was a one man army. He took our order cooked it and then served it. We started off with an order of Gyoza, 6 pieces for only $3.25. Basically they were upside down chicken pot stickers. We all really enjoyed these. These little dumplins were delivered to us hot off the grill.

We ordered the Spicy Seafood Combo Meal, $8.25. It came with this Noodle Sea Food Soup filled with fresh veggies, noodles, and seafood.

The combo also came with a heaping serving of rice. This was the way fried rice should be. It wasn’t too salty or mushy and every bit was bursting with flavor.

Hold on folks there’s more, our combo also came with more of our favorite dumplings. Can’t get enough of these. Holy shit, all this food for only $8.25. What a steal.

Shane ordered the Shoyu Yakisoba Noodles, $5.95. It was a mixture of pork, vegetables and noodles all stir fried together.  He goes, “I could seriously eat this everyday.”

This is definitely one of our new favorite finds. Our bill came out to $18.27. All that food for under $20.00. We all laughed because we kinda felt bad about it and left the one man army a mighty fine tip.

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Noodle Me House of Ramen and Curry
Ste 14
1210 Dillingham Blvd
Honolulu, HI 96817

Get Directions(808) 845-8886

The first time I went to this place was with my long time friend from high school, Trinity. We came here with her son who is also my God child to catch up. I didn’t really pay attention to the food since I didn’t have a food blog back then. All I know is that it didn’t leave a lasting impression on me. Big City Diner is a local chain that gets pretty good reviews. I was a little shocked so I decided to give them another try.

Shane got a short stack of pancakes, $3.79. Everyone is different when it comes to pancakes and I’m starting with this line because I know a lot of people are not going to agree with me on this, but I don’t think there’s anything special about these pancakes. But like I said everyone is different when it comes to pancakes. Some like it fluffy, soggy, spongy, doughy, you get my point. These were a little on the doughy side. Shane thought they were a little undercooked. Ray however, liked these pancakes. He thought the doughiness gave them a subtle sweetness.

I got the The Really Loco, Loco Moco, $6.99. I haven’t had a loco moco yet, so I thought what better place to have a popular Hawaiian platter than at a popular Hawaiian diner? For those of you who aren’t aware of what a loco moco is, it’s white rice topped with a hamburger patty, sauteed onions, covered with gravy and then topped with an egg, cooked the way you like. Again, not impressed. When it comes to this dish, I think the flavor of the gravy will make it or brake it, since every bite will be smothered in gravy. In this case it broke it. The gravy tasted cheap, like the poor quality packaged gravy where all you do is add hot water. I say poor quality packaged kind because there are some packages that are pretty darn good. It seemed as if I didn’t eat this fast enough, it would start to solidify and get clumpy.

Here’s what it looked like half way through. Excuse the pepper. Some do salt, I do pepper. Notice the gravy to the side starting to get a little clumpy.

Ray ordered a side egg, scrambled, with his dish, $1.09. Really not much to say, it’s an egg.

This was Ray’s dish, Grilled Oatmeal Cakes, $7.49. Boy, I tell you Ray must of had a wild hair tickling his ass this day because he’s rarely this healthy. It’s suppose to be topped with honey and come with fruit. Now unless they cook the honey in with it because there was no honey to be found. Also the fruit was melons and a pineapple garnish. In all honesty, these cakes surprised me. I think I ended up liking them more than Ray did.

It also came with a side of toast.

The best part of eating here is being able to check it off the list and moving on to bigger and better things. Sorry if it sounds like I’m bashing them, I’m not. It just didn’t do anything for me, but that doesn’t mean it was bad. I think the oak cakes actually being good was the highlight of this meal. I didn’t come in with high expectations because, well, it’s a diner. In my professional opinion, Big City Diner is a Hawaiian version of IHOP.

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Big City Diner
1060 Auahi ST.
Honolulu, HI 96814
(808) 591-8891