Kong Kee Chinese Fast Food

I love it! It’s definitely one of my favorite Chinese restaurant on Oahu! Everything that we ordered was tasty; especially shrimp fried rice was super delicious and I loved their fried dumplings! The portion is pretty big and super cheap! I would definitely come back and try their other food :)

Got some steamed cherng fun and iced tea with lemon here. The ice tea was too sweet after I told her ‘less sugar” and then steamed cherng fun was too thick. No dried shrimp.
I think it’s like a simple HK café.

After seeing the reviews, I thought to myself, I gotta try this place. I went on a Monday morning and order beef jook, deep fried bread stick wrap with look fun and a cold Hong Kong style tea. They were out of look fun (at 8:30 am??), so I replaced it with just plain deep fried bread stick. The jook was different from other that I have eaten in the area. They put bean curd stick and ginko nuts in their jook. At first, I was not use to the flavor but as I ate more of the jook, the more I like the taste of it, The beef was also very tender. The fried bread stick was cold and a little hard since it was not freshly made and was probably sitting for awhile. The Hong Kong iced tea with milk was also very good. But the best part of this experience is that for all the thing that I’ve order, there were enough to feed two persons (myself and wife) and only costed me $ 8.75. I would definitely come back again to try the other goodies that they have to offer.

Food is tasty and prices are really reasonable. Try the variety of noodles and rice dishes.

Remember the news segment Cheap Eats? This place would be very suitable for that show. We are talking about dirt cheap ($ 5.75 to $ 6 plus), large portions, and authentic Chinese noodles. Feels like I just flopped quads when playing poker.
The star is the beef chow fun noodles, whether it’s wet or dry style with or without choi sum, black bean sauce, etc. Compares to Lam’s Kitchen where you pay a bit more at $ 7.50 but you get better service and you got A/​C.
The place is very busy and it really helps to speak Cantonese as their English is limited but they can understand enough to take your food orders. No A/​C and it could get hot eating in, so it’s best for take out orders. Funny thing is that they don’t have take out menus! It’s a two person shop, one person does the cooking and other waiting tables and taking food orders.
It’s really obscure and hard to find, next to Royal Kitchen but inside the marketplace. Check out the pics that my Unilocal friend Val Y posted, it will help you locate.
Highly recommended!

I’ve been coming here to pick-​up some take-​out about 1x a week now and the Chinese couple now recognize me.
I really like the beef chow funn here. When I ordered this shortly before noon today I was advised the chow funn noodles were sold out. They must have read my highly disappointed face because the man came out with a box of some look funn noodles. He was honest that it wasn’t enough for one order and asked if it was okay if he gave more bean sprouts, which I happily obliged.
My dish was made fresh and I walked out very happy!
NOTE: I have yet to try this place on the weekends as they only make char siu on Saturday and Sunday.

The other day I was in the Chinese Cultural Plaza looking for a place to eat and found this Chinese restaurant that was real Chinese. This is what I think is a real Chinese restaurant.
1. There are two entrances to the restaurant but only one sign. The sign inside of the Cultural Plaza Annex read «Kong Kee Chinese Fast Food».
There is no sign on the outside of the restaurant.
Real Chinese are very thrifty. Real Chinese make only one sign to save money.
2. Everything on the menu of a real Chinese restaurant are less than $ 6.50 or less.
Owners of real Chinese restaurants know that real Chinese people don’t like to spend money so they make everything on their menu very cheap.
That way they can sell lots of food to real Chinese or local cheapskates like me.
3. The tabletops in a real Chinese restaurant are red.
Real Chinese people believe the color red brings good luck. Red table means lots of real Chinese customers sitting and eating. This must be working because the restaurant, though small, was very busy.
4. You know you are in a real Chinese restaurant when you see Chinese calligraphy before (not after) the English description on a menu.
English is not a second language in a real Chinese restaurant.
I tried ordering in English but the lady owner didn’t understand a word I was saying. She had to come to the front of the order counter to see what I was pointing at. She mumbled something and headed to the back. [1]
I ordered the dry chow fun with beef and vegetables for $ 5.75.
5. Real Chinese restaurants don’t charge G.E.T. tax. I love this real Chinese restaurant tradition.
6. The language spoken in a real Chinese restaurant is Cantonese.
I’m standing at the order counter and everyone in this real Chinese restaurant was speaking Cantonese. No English! No Filipino! No Japanese!
I stood in front of the counter and yelled: «Hey! Why can’t Chinese couples have Caucasian babies?»
I wanted to see if anyone of them understood English. Everyone in the restaurant looked puzzled.
I said: «Because two Wong’s don’t make a White!»
No one laughed. I knew I was in a real Chinese restaurant. They didn’t get it! This always happens in a real Chinese restaurant. It is loud and noisy; but no one is laughing!
7. You know you are in a real Chinese restaurant when you can see the kitchen and the eating area when standing at the order counter. This is very efficient utilization of space. Real Chinese restaurants are small, decent and very efficient. Even the cook is small and efficient.
I enjoyed watching the real Chinese cook.
His shirt was definitely not Armani or from Macy’s. Real Chinese are known to recycle clothes. My guess is that the aloha shirt he was wearing was from Liberty House or McInerny from the 70’s.
I yell to him «Hold the MSG!» [2]
He turned and I guess he thought I was one of his real Chinese friends. He yelled his real Chinese friend’s name… FOOK YU! Real Chinese have swear word names.
I yelled back: «DIM SUM!» I know that doesn’t make any sense but that was the only thing I could think of at the time.
8. You know you are in a real Chinese restaurant when grease is one of the ingredients of a recipe. I’m just kidding on this one but I think this kitchen would not pass Restaurant Impossible — Robert Irvine’s eye and finger test.
9. Real Chinese cooks can make simple dishes taste very good. Real Chinese cooks are very generous and pile on the food. My chow fun dish must have weighed between two and three pounds and was awesome.
I like real Chinese cooks. To me the ones at Panda Express are replica Chinese wearing Chinese costumes. Try ordering a beef chow fun from there and compare the quantity and cost. The cooks at Panda are not real Chinese.
I was glad I found this real Chinese restaurant. Take a look at the menu. This place has real bargains with delicious food at a great price.
[1] A real local cheapskate is someone that is always mistaken for a real Chinese. When I tried to order my beef chow fun the owner thought my real Chinese name was Dum Gai! She might be right!
[2] MSG free restaurant.
P. S. Sea bass with ginger and onions on rice is 5 stars.
P. P. S. Hong Kong style tea and coffee with cream and sugar is a must try.

If Taste is what Matters, and you don’t care about presentation… this place is great! Talk about a little hole in the wall that is hard to find! The couple use to run Aikane Café over ten years ago. If you are like me and do not speak chinese, then you will be the only one unless I happen to be there too. Don’t let the smells and dinginess scare you away, because the fried pork chops with curry or black pepper sauce will have you hooked. Sea Bass with choy sum in garlic sauce is damn good too!
This is a place for real foodies… no fufu foodies or faux foodies here!
Located across the hallway from Royal Kitchen and adjacent to the Chinese Cultural Plaza’s open market.