A trip to Honolulu, Hawaii and dining at a few Ono places: Day 1 and 2

Day 1 - Our flight arrived fairly late into Honolulu so we stopped by one of our favorite restaurants in the Ala Moana area outside of Waikiki. It's Side Street Inn located across from Ala Moana shopping center in a small one way street.

Fresh ahi poke in shoyu with Maui onions and limu seaweed:



crispy deep fried Thai spring rolls:



Wing Zings, one of most delicious hot wings ever:



Grilled Korean style Kalbi short ribs:



Hawaiian style yakisoba with slices of spam, kamaboko, and veggies:



And a small side of macaroni salad:



Day 2 - For lunch, we took a short drive west past downtown Honolulu over to Pier 38 for some simple fresh grilled fish at Nico's at Pier 38. This is a casual counter service place next to the fish market serving inexpensive but very fresh seafood:



The special of the day, grilled shitome (very firm white fish) with a cilantro aioli, steamed white rice and fresh Nalo mixed greens:



The most popular dish at Nico's and my all time favorite, furikake pan seared ahi with ginger garlic cilantro dip. The ahi tuna was perfectly seared on the outside and rare on the inside:



And another special of the day, deep fried moi with tomato chili pepper salsa:



Dinner was at Million Korean BBQ restaurant. I've heard about this place before but this was the first time I've ever tried it. It was very good and much better than Hyung Je Joomoluck (another Korean bbq place we had later in the week):



There were all kinds of banchan:













And we selected a combo dinner that had galbi, beef brisket, shrimp, scallops and mushrooms:



Million uses gas grills which is standard in most places, but what was slight odd was that they had these tubes above the grills for ventilation:



And a warning sign not to mess up their vacuum LOL:



But after dinner I have to admit that the vacuum tube worked really well. I didn't smell too much of bbq.