A buffet in a big way
Friday - December 14, 2007
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If you’re in need of a place to gather with large groups of family or friends this holiday season, you might want to consider some of the added attractions at Hawaii’s largest seafood buffet.
At Makino Chaya, kids eat free at both the Pearlridge and Aloha Tower locations, and the buffet continues to offer some outstanding deals. Makino Chaya now offers Wagyu beef as part of the buffet along with lobster tails and king crab. The acclaimed Wagyu beef, considered the tastiest and most expensive in the world, is on the menu daily as part of the $14 lunch buffet.
“We have some people who come now and that’s all they eat,” says owner Toru Makino. Other holiday deals at Makino Chaya include a free meal to celebrate your birthday (seniors age 65 and over and children under 7) or 50 percent off your food check on your birthday (ages 7 to 64).
Makino Chaya
Pearlridge
98-150 Kaonohi St
486-5100
1 Aloha Tower Marketplace
Second Floor
585-6360
Foodie Trip to China For McCully Shopping Center Winners.
A trip to McCully Shopping Center earlier this year resulted in a trip to China for Jonathon and Kelly Gabrielson, who won the shopping center’s travel contest.
“We ran the promotion in June and July to celebrate the diverse cultural cuisine at the center,“says PR director Terri Hansen.“It’s nice to know that the Gabrielsons had such a great time.”
The Cuisines Around the World promotion included tastings and specials at most of the shopping center restaurants, including Fook Yuen, Phuket Thai, Tudo De Bom, So Gong Dong and Viet Caf. Contestants had to correctly identify which national flag belonged to each restaurant to win the trip to China.
Jonathon and Kelly left Honolulu for China Oct. 8 and returned Oct. 19, having spent four nights in Beijing, one night in Xian and five nights in Shanghai. The event was sponsored in part by MidWeek and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
McCully Shopping Center has restaurants specializing in all styles of cuisine from Hawaiian to Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese.
McCully Shopping Center
1960 Kapiolani Blvd.
955-7377
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Kum Chee Caters for the Holidays.
Kum Chee Korean Buffet in Aiea has lots of holiday options, especially if you don’t feel like cooking for family gatherings. Offering a range of catering menus, Kum Chee’s specials include spicy shrimp platters, grilled fish, seafood stews and big bone kalbi.
“We’ve been doing a lot of catering recently,” says Kum Chee’s Diana Nacasa, “and people seem to like the variety of dishes we have to offer.”
Kum Chee also has a private dining room that may be rented for parties and large gatherings. Lunch and dinner buffets feature kalbi, barbecue chicken, fish jun, meat jun, zucchini jun, fried chicken, fried mandoo, chicken katsu, jap chae and a dozen or so vegetable and fruit dishes, and an a la carte menu features specials like grilled saba. Prices range from $5.95 for fried mandoo to $13.95 for a fairly luxurious seafood stew filled with crab, shrimp, clams, squid and butter-fish. No MSG is used in any of the dishes.
For information on private parties and holiday catering:
Kum Chee Korean Buffet
98-1247 Kaahumanu St.
No. 101, No. 102
488-0315
488-0316
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