Dim Sum at Happy Day
Some pregnant women crave chocolate, some crave pickles and ice cream. I craved dim sum. I've given birth two times over since then and the dim sum obsession remains. Fortunately, I live five minutes away from Happy Day on Waialae Ave.
Happy Day is a good, reliable, clean Chinese restaurant. (I only mention this because I've been to many a questionably clean Chinese restaurant that are good some days and inedible on others). It's a place that you won't be embarrassed to bring your guests. I've never been a pork chop fan, but their Salt & Pepper Porkchop is absolutely ono. They also make a finger-lickin'-good Black Bean Crab. But that is another blog...
It's amazing how much dim sum gets served in a single day at Happy Day. It's a fairly large restaurant, but it's not uncommon to see every table filled during lunch. Our perennial favorites include Half Moon ($2.68), Shrimp and Spinach ($2.68), Scallop Dumpling ($2.68), Mochi Rice (in leaf) ($3.25), Baked Char Siu Bao ($2.68), Taro Gok (deep fried taro with yummy pork filling) ($2.68), Pan-Fried Turnip Cake ($2.68), and Gin Dui ($2.68).
Siu Mai (aka Pork Hash). Has shrimp inside.
Shrimp and Spinach.
Shrimp Dumpling
Scallop Dumpling
Half Moon has Chinese parsley in it, which is a wonderful twist on the standard
Baked Char Siu Bao is sticky on the outside and has just enough dough to keep the pork inside. Meat in every bite.
PAKE TIP 1: Get 25% off your dim sum 8:00-11:30 AM if you do Take Out. Perfect for scoring brownie points with your co-workers. A discount and no need tip. What more could you ask for?
PAKE TIP 2: Happy Day also has dinner specials where you can try the Salt & Pepper Porkchop and Black Bean Crab (among others). Dinner for four is $63, for six is $84.
Happy Day Chinese Seafood Restaurant
3553 Waialae Avenue
Honolulu, HI 96816
ph 808.738.8666
Happy Day is a good, reliable, clean Chinese restaurant. (I only mention this because I've been to many a questionably clean Chinese restaurant that are good some days and inedible on others). It's a place that you won't be embarrassed to bring your guests. I've never been a pork chop fan, but their Salt & Pepper Porkchop is absolutely ono. They also make a finger-lickin'-good Black Bean Crab. But that is another blog...
It's amazing how much dim sum gets served in a single day at Happy Day. It's a fairly large restaurant, but it's not uncommon to see every table filled during lunch. Our perennial favorites include Half Moon ($2.68), Shrimp and Spinach ($2.68), Scallop Dumpling ($2.68), Mochi Rice (in leaf) ($3.25), Baked Char Siu Bao ($2.68), Taro Gok (deep fried taro with yummy pork filling) ($2.68), Pan-Fried Turnip Cake ($2.68), and Gin Dui ($2.68).
Siu Mai (aka Pork Hash). Has shrimp inside.
Shrimp and Spinach.
Shrimp Dumpling
Scallop Dumpling
Half Moon has Chinese parsley in it, which is a wonderful twist on the standard
Baked Char Siu Bao is sticky on the outside and has just enough dough to keep the pork inside. Meat in every bite.
PAKE TIP 1: Get 25% off your dim sum 8:00-11:30 AM if you do Take Out. Perfect for scoring brownie points with your co-workers. A discount and no need tip. What more could you ask for?
PAKE TIP 2: Happy Day also has dinner specials where you can try the Salt & Pepper Porkchop and Black Bean Crab (among others). Dinner for four is $63, for six is $84.
Happy Day Chinese Seafood Restaurant
3553 Waialae Avenue
Honolulu, HI 96816
ph 808.738.8666
Hours: 7 days a week 8am - 1030pm
Labels: Chinese food, dim sum, finds, food, happy day, kaimuki, manapua, pake, pork hash, waialae. menu
posted by kawehi at
3:47 PM
2 Comments:
Be prepared for the LACK of customer service especially with the cashier/order-taker. When we went to pick up a telephone order and wanted to get a take-out dim sum menu, the woman (I just can't call her a lady by no means) spoke with such an angry tone of voice that the man in back of me commented on it when she was out of hearing range. (Just so you don't think this is a discriminatory remark, I want to disclose that I am ethnic Chinese.) This woman should not be in a customer contact position. She needs to work in a cubicle by herself. She yelled at others (customers and workers) so it was not a personal thing against me. Sad to say, the convenience and price MIGHT NOT overcome this major impediment. Maybe we should take this as a lesson on why customer service skills are so important in public contact positions????
There is definitely LACK of customer service, and you feel like you're in some foreign country, not Hawaii. If it wasn't for the good dimsum, quick and easy, I wouldn't go there, and therefore I NEVER recommend to friends.
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