Many good restaurants here. Parking validated.

Its not what it used to be during the Glory Days in the 70s. But the center still has lots of great options for dim sum and various Chinese foods. Its open and spacious with lots of parking. You can grab a bite and shop for some vegetables in the same place. If you cant find what you need then all of Chinatown is just a couple of minutes away.

Good food from restaurants like Legend, Sandys, TaiPan. A few vegetable stands but quite fresh.

Lots of restaurants with a variety of choices. Chinese, local foods, manapua, fresh produce, convenience store, and exotic shops to explore, with a parking structure.

Tasty food and great service. I got the combined soup with Vietnamese coffee. The place looks good and clean, the staff is kind. I dont know anything about vietnamese food but I enjoyed this meal. It is affordable too.

Great place to get something to eat, Chinese food American food. Get you hair cut but trinkets.

I love shopping at the open markets in the Chinatown Cultural Plaza. I avoid the crowds and not spending time waiting in line at cashiers. The freshness of the local vegetables that are bagged for sanitation reasons. I can also find vegetables not available in the supermarkets. Prices are lower. I call in advance to make sure product are available and will set aside for me. Parking is validated.

A great place for a walk. Also many fine restaurants, convenience stores, cigarettes and liquor. A unique and different cultural experience rich in local history. Great views, plenty of river, trees, and mountain views. A view, or at least a view, to the other part of the world, the Orient. (for those of us Americans from the mainland) Scenic and refreshing! Historic. Quick convenient shopping for most shopping needs. Very pleasent.

Lots of eateries, they were all great.

First visit at the Chinese Cultural Plaza for the Chinese New Year celebration for 2018. It was very crowded but the atmosphere, its excitement, was contagious. The vendors were great. Miss the parade and the block party they usually hold yearly. So compared to that its a little downgraded on the usual things to see and do. But overall, it was nice.

Legends. .bit pricey at $4.45 an order of most dim sum but tasty!

This plaza has some of the best Chinese food restaurants on Oahu. Want Dim Sum? Great place! Want Cantonese food? Great place! Want to eat some great traditional Cantonese breakfast foods? Also available. With ample parking and the ability to get parking tickets validated this is a great place to come and eat!

Went here for legends seafood. Dont miss the parking, its validated.

I went to Royal Kitchen for dim sum. I was craving for pork hash and char siu bow. I went to the original place we always went for many years, but they were closed. I also got for my CPA and they enjoy as well.

Royal kitchen baked manapua is da winnahs! Nuff sedd

Fresh daily produce, local farmers, support!!

Great memories. Great restaurants

This is a Chinese-style snack, I especially like to eat here

Great place to visit to see the open markets and Look Funn Factory

The guy Alex such nice to older. I bought a smart phone from him last week. He spent long time to teach me. Today I brought my other phone active another number from him try bring more business to this guy. God bless you! Mahalo

I get all my authethic Asian vegetables, can goods and sauces here.

Clean and well maintained no complaints unless you have large vehical.... highly recommend you park in street.

Very good place but be careful about car break. If you forget to lock your car, trust me it takes only two minutes you will lose all your belongings (personal experience). Try to park on second floor and other side of elevator. Usually more car breaking happened near elevator. Stay safe and be careful.

Went to Tai Pan for dim sum. It was fast and fresh.

Craig K.A lot of Resturants, small shops, Open Market. After eating at one if the restaurants you can leisurely walk around and look around in the small shops. In the Open Market you can find fresh fruits and vegetables. A nice place to visit.

The people are friendly and the food is good.

There are very good Chinese restaurants in the Cultural Plaza. My favorite is Fook Lam on the River St. promenade. And there’s several other excellent restaurants. 4 stars for them.Unfortunately, the parking lot is horrendously slow. The last last time I went it took an hour to get out of the parking lot. The owners should upgrade the equipment. I’m never going through that again. 0 stars for this.

5 levels of parking available upstairs. Make sure to get validation for discounted parking fees good up to 6 hours. I enjoy walking around the airy open courtyard, looking at all the little specialty shops and jewelry knick knack stores. Some shop owners are gruff with stink eye others super friendly. I dont let that bother me. Lots of food places and Ill be reviewing those too. Open market selling fresh veggies and kimchee on mountain side of plaza opposite side of stage. Walk through a dark hall next to shop full of foreign DVDs. Ask for Kathy if you want 5 star friendly service. Kathys mom offer home made style marinated cuttle fish and pickled spicy delicacies. Yummm!

Lots of great international cuisine and shops. The homeless are plenty in this area. Come early if walking or on public transportation and not familiar with area when there is good security and daylight for the best possible experience. Otherwise, its can be as good or, like other open marketplaces and shops in Asia right in the Honolulu China Town area k

A good friend of mine has a temple there. I help him and his group every year for the Chinese New Year parade.

Lots of small mom and pops shop. A place for prayers of good luck is in the middle of the spot

Enjoyed eating dim sum

Chinese restaurants and shops a quan yin altar where people burn incense, people from the neighborhood practice Chinese instruments here. It is an authentic place with practical businesses and services for the local population

Nice place to eat with a few great restaurants. Recommend the yum cha

This plaza has many wonderful restaurants & shops. Validated parking up to 6 hours for only $4.00. Check it out!!!

Chinatown is close to my home, everything cheaper than Supermarkets

Convenient parking thats affordable with validation!! Love going here for dim sum! Then after eating, go walking around the shops and find unique gifts, or great fruits and vegetables!!

In celebration of the Chinese New Year, this school of martial arts students from Kongs Siu Lum Pai presented an AWESOME! program.Every student showed that their hard work and practice paid off. Everyone around us truly enjoyed the performance! I am so pleased that my niece performed am unforgettable Lion Dance Cheers to the year of the Rat!

You will find several really good Chinese restaurants in the Chinese Cultural Plaza and surrounding areas.

Fun experience but maybe not the safest place in the city. We were fine because we got there early.

Here is the Chinatown in Honolulu, Hawaii. By the way, I can see all the icon regarding Republic of China. Such as the National Flag, tradition food, and etc..

Nice place to walk through for a cultural experience whether shopping, dining or just browsing for souvenirs.Outside the courtyard is a local favorite shop called Royal Kitchen. Nice place for chow fun lunch or a baked manapua bun treat. Dont limit your eats to things just described, there are more items to eat and all taste great.

Taiwan/American Culture Center: good if you have the interests, otherwise boring. Right in the middle of Chinatown. Great onsite paid parking. Several restaurants ( Legends Sea Food very good for dim sum). Several shops: some kitsch, some better quality. Occasional events: excellent Chinese New Year, Tai-Chi classes, Kuan Yin shrine.

Great day experience at chinatown plaza, no restroom available for customers only negative part of the staff that works for plaza.

Variety of places to pick up good eats.

My son had a field trip to Chinatown. Just one of many stops. We did have manapua, dim sum, & rice cake from Royal Kitchen while waiting for the bus.

A hub for a lot of Chinese restaurants. Ive been coming here since forever.They also host the happy new year festivities here.

If youre looking to feel deep sense of melancholy and the abandonment of all hope, this is the place for you.Viewing Chinatown through the lens is to see a pilgrimage of misery from all the darkest corners of life, and what new life springs from its cracks are sure to be trapped within, in a cage of fear and apprehensionVisitors beware... she is medusas trapping gaze that you cannot will yourself away from.You may look upon her grotesque pagodas and decrepit mildewed finishes... marvel at the stacks of ancient airconditioning units precariously situated one one top of the other.. you may look upon her shiny treasures of bootleg steven chow dvds and plastic luck totems with wonder- but there in the reflection looking back at you trapped in time, you will see the dragging on of your remaining days-Tethered to a cursed drag of 3 square miles doomed to gamble penniless on college walk and nuuanu Avenue for the rest of your life among the squatting and dismal.

Good place for vegetables shopping and houseware for kitchens like utensil and cleanings equipment

Dim sum was excellent but staff unfriendly and overall people in the area were extremely rude especially in one of the stores near a temple. Most of the mall was outdated and not clean. Lots of homeless and street vagabonds.

The place is clean. There are a variety of shops here. Parking is convenient and reasonable.

China town in oahu is always poppin

Expecting to eat something Amazing but didnt find it

A pretty rundown place with some good restaurants

Great parking but didn’t notice you need to validate for the posted prices. Better than checking time for metered parking.Wasn’t busy, kind of a run-down mall. Cool restaurant there we tried but hair in the food. Probably visit Chinatown again as a local but not for this plaza.

Debbie K.Chinatown Cultural Plaza is a good place to go if you are hungry. A lot of restaurants, Regal Doughnuts and Open Market too. Kents Drive Inn huge portions good food, Hong Kong Noodles lots of noodles the best, Tai Pan best Dim Sum. Visit the Open Market fresh veggies and fruits. After a good meal walk around to see the other stores. Also a lot of different celebrations thru out the year. The Chinese New Year Celebration is one of the best.

Delicious Lobster Rolls!

Still a great place to visit go for itand enjoy.

Delicious breakfast, great refills of coffee.

I shop here once a week. Youll find cheap prices on everything you can think of. Especially foods.

Good place to shop. Aloha

Went there but didnt go in stayed in the car and she went in Royal kitchen

It the best place to experience true Chinese culture and value in their civilization. It has the best Timxam in town and some of the best Chinese restaurant, medicine store, and public square. I admire it much more than San Francisco China Town for it is smaller and more recently built.

Great people and the great food! Check out the the Legend, its a great experience and delicious food!

Oh wow, what a disappointment this was. Ive visited Chinatown in Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Vancouver, and more. This one was by far the worst. Very few of the shops and restaurants were open, and there was almost no one around. It wasnt worth the time. Skip it.

Just went there to eat at Legends and to walk around. Parking there is inexpensive...yay!

Awesome.

Super fun place to go and enjoy the Chinese New Year festivities. We have been going there every year for years. Best place to see the amazing Lion Dance groups. What a show!

Good lunch places

Love coming here for Chinese New Year celebrations!

Not sure about how food is cooked or what is really in it, but most places yummy, nonetheless. Not sure about secret passwords to backrooms. Havent needed them, yet.

Waimanalu comvience center

My friends and I come here for dim sum lunch. Theres a few restaurants to choose from but our favorite is Taipan. Parking is inexpensive, but make sure you get it validated.

Convenient location and great shops for Asian knick knacks.

Its a little shady but its fun to walk around during the day. Parking is awful for cars and bikes (mopeds too). But everything is pretty cheap compared to anywhere else in hawaii

Great dim sum place nearby.

THERES A LITTLE CHINATOWN IN EVERYONE...A WHOLE LOT IN ME.I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT CHINATOWN,HONOLULU...EVERYTHING!

Traditional Chinese downtown scencerynot well maintained

They Have a Good place to sit and eat in the shade!

Home of Royal Kitchen. Go to place for a variety of baked manapua. Vegatarian offeribgs as well.

Royal kitchen has great baked manapua

Its not bad

Went to the plaza since street celebration couldnt meet the financial obligations. Bad management! Businesses lost revenue and Hawaiis visitors and locals missed out. Celebration in the plaza was ok. Hope street festival will be back next year.

Really great place to eat and see some of the local lifestyles that go there.

Fabulous diversity. Its like being back in time.

Great place to purchase ALL kinds of items and food at low prices

Good eating places relaxing atmosphere

Awesome place filled with great dim sum and other restaurants, plus within short walking distance to open air vegetable and produce markets right down the street. Get here by 11am on weekends to get good parking and be sure to validate parking stub. Otherwise, recommend parking at municipal parking lot down the street.

So fun place to wander through the shops and eat. Chill. Same cheap merchandise you will find in any Chinatown.

Lunch was at a Fabulous restaurant called Won Kee Restaurant. We had some tasty, delicious Dim Sum and Noodles with Tea. Clean, delicious, and reasonable. Love it! We will definitely be back!

Chinas incubated Wulan 400 & Corona minus a lime wedge and dash of salt!!!

Building is somewhat rundown with alot of vacancies but they do have a few great restaurants, they also have a few markets with some good deals.

Pretty much the center of Chinatown anything and everything youll need for your Chinese menu.

Lots of good food and shops.

The Cultural Plaza is fine for restaurants and a few small businesses, and it has a devotional Buddhist statue, but most of the time thats about it. Its much more lively (and ceowded) on festival days -- at which time its worth 4 1/2 stars. Legend and Tai Pan are good for dim sum, and Regal Bakery has excellent doughnuts (and other baked goods) and bubble tea. There are also a couple of nice produce markets and seafood stores at the far end.If you drive to Chinatown, the Cultural Plazas parking structure is very convenient. Make sure to get your parking slip validated!If you exit the Cultural Plaza toward River St. youll find a statue of Sun Yat-sen, and there are typically groups of older Chinese men playing mahjong or something at tables along the river.

Lots of great Chinese food places to eat dim sum, spicy palace, manapua, pork hash 5/5 shakas

Great beer and food and friendly people

This is one of those places where it has a lot of history and culture. May look run down but everyone seems friendly and nice. You got elders playing games on the floor and varieties of Asian food to pick to eat.

Food was delicious & scored a side street parking

Great place to visit while on vacation