Hung Won Restaurant

I remembered a time when this Chinese restaurant in Kaimuki was called — «Kwok’s Chop Suey»…but that was a long time ago…
Since then, the original owners sold the business, and now this Chinese restaurant is called — Hung Won Chinese Restaurant.
Hung Won is located just next door from Café Miro, and there is a pretty sizable parking lot in front of Hung Won. Parking is free, but the parking lot is shared by other businesses like an Ice Cream Shop, & a Gold/​Metal dealer.
As I walked into the restaurant today, I could see it wasn’t too busy. The restaurant looked cleaned, but had a faint Clorox smell.
Upon getting seated, a waitress comes by and drops off hot tea, water, & menus.
After looking over their selections on the menu, I decided to get the Oyster Sauce Chicken with Choy Sum & Chow Funn. My friend ended up getting the Char Siu, Cold Ginger Chicken & Choy Sum with rice.
What can I say about the grub?
I was very pleased with the generous portion of food that they offered, but my oyster sauce chicken was lacking as far as taste, gravy sauce, & the chicken skin was not crispy at all. To top it off, my chow funn noodles were rather oily too. On the positive side, my dish did have a lot of fresh choy sum vegetables, which I liked.
My friend who ate the char siu, cold ginger chicken & choy sum on rice said he liked this dish.
Overall, I spent $ 27 bucks for these two dishes (with tip)…I gotta honest with you folks, for what I paid, and what I got (as far as the food) it kinda left a lot to be desired about this place.

It was lunch time and since I was in Kaimuki so why not have lunch here.
I had their lunch plate B with cold ginger chicken, sweet and sour spareribs, Gon lo mein and two crispy gau gee. All this for under $ 10.
Customer service was great and food arrived fresh and hot in about 7 minutes.
Delicious

Have NEVER had a bad meal here! Love this place!

This review is only for Singapore noodles which were way too salty & spicy. If you order this dish must request no MSG! Terrible

As you first walk into the restaurant there was a heavy bleach smell, the layout of the restaurant is odd. The dinning table are placed next to a wall. Chandeliers are placed in the middle of the of the ceiling. Some tables are slightly close to the bathroom the food isn’t that great, if you want real good Chinese food go to Chinatown hence the name. This place is dull and unsanitary, if you don’t believe me here’s the photo of the tea cup Enjoy!

This is our favorite place to get Chinese food here in town. The prices are reasonable and the service is great!

Add this on the list of good Chinese food. This place ranks in my top 3 along with Happy Days & Duk Kee. Prices are cheap & their food is always fresh & flavorful without being overly greasy & making you feel sick after. I order out a lot but have also dined in a few times. If you dine in, try their complimentary hot tea. I like my tea to have strong flavor & theirs blows me away.
Duk Kee used to be my go-​to spot for take out Chinese but the parking in that area is such a pain. Hung Won has a private parking lot, with entry & exit on Waialae, with free parking. Soooo much more convenient!

Excellent service and wonderful food!!! :) atmosphere is friendly :) quick service too, has a slightly authentic feel. Has parking in front too which is a big save in this location

Home style Chinese cooking in a clean neighborhood restaurant.
If you are craving for Chinese food Hung Wong delivers. It’s not the best but there are many good dishes to select from.
Our menu consisted of:
Taro pot roast pork rating 2.5 stars (it’s the only restaurant close to where I live that serves the brown hong kong style pork, but I have tasted better elsewhere.)
Mongolian beef 3
Pork hash 4
Crispy chicken 3
Gon lo mein noodles 2
Sam see cake noodles 2.5
Spareribs with Peking sauce 3
Cold ginger chicken 3
The portions are reasonable for family style so you really won’t go away hungry but a little pricy.
The restaurant was clean and airy. They also sell roast pork, char siu, and roast duck so you don’t have to go all the way to china town to buy it.
All in all a nice neighborhood Chinese restaurant. Nothing spectacular but I would go their again to try their stuffed mochi rice duck.
Overall restaurant rating 3
Food quality 2.5
Food selection 3
Value for the price 2 (some items kinda pricy)
Friendly staff 4
Check out Hung Won under new management.
The original owners sold the restaurant around 2 years ago. The new owner was in business for 3 months (and was terrible). This is the third owner who has now managed the restaurant for about 2 years. I would give this new owner a chance.
Check out Hung Won for good neighborhood Chinese food if you are in the Kaimuki area.

Hung Won is one of the few Chinese restaurants in kaimukI. It’s great because it has pretty authentic food including roasted meats! They also have plenty of free parking!
This is a very convenient location for my family and I to get our Chinese fix at. We have a different restaurant that we frequent, but it’s a tiny bit father. Hung Won also serves kind of unique dishes like their lamb dishes. It’s not your typical Americanized Chinese fare.
On our last visit, my family and I ordered the lamb and beancurd, string beans with pork, salt and pepper pork chops and hot and sour soup. Everything was great for the most part and the food came out super quickly. I will say that this is not my favorite place for string beans… I liked them well cooked and crispy. Hung Won serves them still pretty raw.
The service was good, relative to other Chinese places, it could be said that the service was excellent. Our waters and teapot were kept full and our food was actually served with a smile!
The décor leaves something left to be desired… I’ll definitely be back for roast duck and roast pork though!

We ordered take-​out from here and it is by far the best Kung Pao chicken I’ve had on island.

Hung Won Restaurant
Just asking– can you please get a normal name? There is a thread about punny names.
I lived on 9^th Ave. AT 3 am there are sometimes tons of drunk drunk men that scream at the top of their lungs «Hung Won!» Can you name yourself something like Kings food or Kings dinner or something that won’t incite the drunks?
My favorite though after coming home on the bus, getting out, dropping off my stuff and walking over to eat– is the dinner plate. I’m easy — give me a plate of food and I can finish it.
When I eat in– the beef and peppers is wonderful. There is also the shrimp walnuts which is worth a try at least once. It is on the sweet side but still delishish.
The rest is just on the good side– chicken is cooked well and good flavor-​fulness. Beef is tender yet firm and good quality — not the cheap cheap kind. Can’t go wrong with a beef broccoli — it will fill you up nicely.
Inside the restaurant though is about the friendliest well lit place of any Chinese restaurant I have been to in HI. It is open and not cluttered sitting down. I have been there when a full family gathering took up every seat in the place and there was still room for me and others to pick up carry out easily.
Next to my home phone there was the phone number for take out– so in my book that means something– it is worth going back again and again to try something new and get a little comfort food like beef broccoli to make it through another day to get to work the next day.

My uncle and his family were visiting from Seattle, so we went out for a family dinner at Hung Won. It was my first time here but I heard good things about this place, especially their roast duck. I’m not sure what anything cost here though because my parents went in advance, ordered and paid. I didn’t even get to see the menu.
Having been born in Hong Kong and coming from two full blooded Chinese parents, I can assure you that the food here is authentic. There are two types of Chinese food for me, «authentic» and «local». Dishes like sweet and sour pork, orange chicken and lemon chicken are «local» to me. If you go to Hong Kong, you won’t find too many natives ordering things like that. That could be the reason they have been getting low reviews for those entrees. Every dish that we had that night was really good. I would rank it just a little below Royal Garden and Legends.
We started with the Chinese chicken salad. It would have been perfect if they had added the jelly fish. I didn’t taste any. The tangy dressing was perfect along with the shredded chicken. They also included the pickled vegetables which a lot of places don’t add. That makes such a big difference. The scallop soup was good. It wasn’t too salty and the ingredients to broth ratio was spot on. The roast duck is what this place is known for and it didn’t disappoint. It was definitely the star of the night. The duck was huge and it was flavored with some kind of gravy. Other restaurants just serve it dry. The fried chicken was also awesome. The skin was fried crispy and the meat on the inside was juicy. They also sprinkled some kind of sauce on it. I could tell because the shrimp chips had spots of brown sauce on it. My least favorite of the night was the beef with vegetables. The beef was tender but the sauce was on the saltier side. The fried fish with sweet and sour sauce was bomb. The fish fillets were huge and fried really crispy. I have no idea what kind of batter they used but it was still crispy after they drenched it with the sweet and sour sauce. My other favorite of the night besides the duck was the abalone and mushroom dish. OMG, this was so, so good!!! I couldn’t stop eating the lettuce with the abalone and mushroom, with the sauce. For dessert, we had tapioca. It was just as good if not better than Legends. I knew it was good when the hubby ate two bowls of it. He’s picky with the tapioca. He won’t touch it at a lot of the Chinese restaurants that we go to. Many places make it too thick. He likes it watered down with coconut milk. He hit the jackpot tonight.
The décor was subpar compared to other Chinese restaurants. It was clean and bright but it just wasn’t nice. It looked more like a hole in the wall kind of place. The service was excellent and efficient. I’m not sure if it was because we spoke Chinese to them.

We have been going to Hung Won for 5 years and normally order the same dishes. A year or so ago, we found a penny in our noodles and after reporting it, we stopped going there. Hung Won then underwent new ownership and we decided to give it a try a few months after it opened. To our surprise, the food was wonderful and the service was even better! We normally order the crispy gaugee which is pretty good, beef broccoli cake noodle which has perfectly baked/​fried noodles with the sauce and broccoli and my fav… dried beef chow fun! Yummo!!! I love it since you can taste how fresh everything is and the beef is so tender and the noodles are perfect! We normally do a take out dinner from them once every couple of weeks. Such a convenient location and great food!

Went here for pupu stuff for Super Bowl and very happy how everything tasted. Loved chow funn, Peking duck, crispy gau gee min was excellent. Plan to go back and order dinner food!
Loved the service!

My family eats A LOT of Chinese food. A LOT. Hung Won by far was the best and FRIENDLIEST service from a Chinese restaurant I’ve ever had.
The food came fast, Kevin even checked on us to see if we wanted the courses to come out faster or slower (to give us more time and room).
The duck is really really good! Lots of meat and great flavor.

After Golden Duck in Kahala closed, we lamented that there wasn’t another local Chinese restaurant nearby. Then came the write-​up in Dining Out for Hung Won, and we gave it a try.
Got a takeout order of kau yuk and taro and their jai. For us, the test of a restaurant is how good it cooks jai. Everyone says their mother’s jai is the best. Hung Won’s version isn

After Golden Duck in Kahala closed, we lamented that there wasn’t another local Chinese restaurant nearby. Then came the write-​up in Dining Out for Hung Won, and we gave it a try.
Got a takeout order of kau yuk and taro and their jai. For us, the test of a restaurant is how good it cooks jai. Everyone says their mother’s jai is the best. Hung Won’s version isn’t sweet like a lot of other places but it was too heavy on the rice noodles. No ginkgo nuts or fat choy. I’m still searching for jai like my mom used to make!
The kau yuk with taro was delicious! That’s what pushed me to give this place 4 stars. Sweet pieces of pork with tender chunks of taro in a tasty gravy. Just writing about it makes me want to drive to Hung Won to pick up an order.
This place also gets 4 stars for the friendliness of the employees. My dog was having separation anxiety while waiting in the car so I kept her company outside. The cashier brought out my order to me!
Parking is easy. There are spaces in the lot as well as ample street parking.

I’ve been to Hung Won 3 times in the past week… I wanted to try a few more things…
I think the duck deserves 4 stars… but I have to admit I’m not crazy about the cake noodle or chow mein dishes… The black bean look fun was good… so to be fair, I’d give the 4 stars for the duck and the look fun dishes…
Oh and to the wonderful people there too!

After reading this last weekend’s (9/21/2014)Dining Out section in our local Sunday paper, we decided on trying this Kaimuki neighborhood restaurant. Hung Won has been a longstanding favorite among many locals. Recently, a new management and cooking team took over. There have been many mixed reviews since the change so we decided to jump in and try the place for ourselves.
The restaurant’s interior is bright, clean and spacious. Service was friendly and attentive. Our waitress chatted with us about the new management and pointed out the daily and «off-​menu» specials. She had a familiarity to us like we were family members… like a being with a favorite aunt or older sister. She was respectful as we were her customers but she made us feel comfortable.
We noticed the portions that were set on other patrons tables. For the prices listed, I would say that the portions are priced fairly. The portions were decent and definitely shareable between 2 or 3 people. But, if you’re a big eater, then a single order should suffice. While perusing the menu, our eyes focused on two items… Minute Chicken CAKE noodles and Lamb with Leeks. We were pleased to find that Minute Chicken was served boneless without those pesky chicken bone shards and the meat was tender and flavorful. The noodles used for the cake noodles were Hong Kong-​style like at Lee Ho Fook Restaurant. The noodles were nicely crisped, its noodle interior was a semi-​firm chewy bite and cut into chopstick manageable squares. There was enough flavorful gravy to moisten, not drown, the dish. But, it was the lamb dish that «stole the show» for us. The lamb was wok-​fried, thinly sliced, tender and flavored with leeks, ginger, Chinese wine and their «special sauce». There was no gamey flavor. this is lamb, not mutton! We could understand from its flavors and careful preparation that this dish is one of their many signature dishes. Even with only two dishes, we ended up with leftovers… it wasn’t because of any lack of flavors but the portions filled us.
We enjoyed our experience and wish this new management continued success. We’re already planning our return.

Casual Chinese restaurant, now under new ownership. We ordered a total of 10 dishes– beef chow fun, salted fish and chicken fried rice, honey walnut shrimp, roast duck, char siu, cooked oysters, braised eggplant, tofu casserole, sweet and sour pork and a beef dish.
Majority of the dishes has a nice wok hei flavor and was seasoned well.
The standout was the roast duck! Excessively succulent and heavenly, with just the right amount of fat. Even the skin was terrifically good! Must try, no matter what!
Servers and waiters were nice and constantly refilled waters, tea pots, asking if things were going well and clearing empty dishes.
Personally if I were the new owners, I would’ve change the name of the restaurant and improve the décor. Interior is sparse, with two large paintings and a vase. Another thing is, in the front window, under Hung Won, it says seafood… but when asked if they had any lobsters, the waitress said we would have to reserve it beforehand. Which is odd, since they claim to have seafood. Still I would return for the roast duck.