Plaza Mini Mart

Small little gem of a mini mart that has a good variety of inexpensive breakfast, korean, & sometimes sushi roll bentos made fresh. Korean couple making all the food fresh in the back kitchen. They also regularly have fresh cut fruit, good salads, a generous somen bento, premade sammies. Plus many offerings of a convenience store. I can eat here almost everyday spending between $ 4-​$ 6. Nice owners, too.

My favorite go to mom and pop store when I’m at work. They have everything from sundries, groceries and hot food. They recently went through new owners, both owners were/​are very friendly.
It is pricey here but the convenient location makes it worth while. Freshly brewed coffee every morning (a must for me!) and spicy musubi! Odd combination but SO good, just don’t eat it in conjunction or you will have «issues».
The freezers are kept full, grab and go food always on hand. The only downfall is their chips run low quickly, being it is the only convenience store for a huge office building, residential building and Kaiser.
Great service, necessities on hand if you need them, clean and great location.

I’m rating it «Five Star» because this mini mart has an awesome array of Korean food bentos at awesome prices – under $ 5.00 for a meal! You can even splurge on a side of mandoo or sushi for that price. Bulgogi, bbq chicken, fried tofu, bibimbap on certain days, fish and meat jun – am I missing anything? In these bentos, you usually have rice, cellophane noodles, takuwan, some type of greens, and bean sprouts. Just right for the average person who needs to go back to work without being sleepy from overeating. The bentos have just enough seasoning, not too salty. My favorites are the mandoo and the tofu (yes, really, the tofu). My husband says the bibimbap is good for not being in a stone pot. His egg was perfectly cooked.
Too bad I don’t work in the area, so I can only go there when I’m on vacation, or if I want to grab a quick breakfast. (In the morning hours they have spam musubi, assorted danishes, manapua, hot-​dog manapua, tuna manapua, eggs and rice with either bacon or «little smokies» sausages – also very reasonably priced.)
One of the reasons why I look forward to my vacations is so that I can fill my cravings for the Plaza Mini Mart bentos – no kidding!

oh little shop of bentos and musubi’s… please don’t ever change.
this little shop is located on the ground floor of Royal Capital Plaza which happens to be right across my job. They have fresh and hot spam musubi’s with perfect spam to rice ratio. The bentos are good to if i’m feeling extra hungry, and the bacon bentos are great because they wrap the bacon in a saran wrap and keep it separate from the eggs and rice so it doesn’t get soggy. poifect!
The lunch bentos are good too! So Mondays & Wednesdays they have bi bim bap. Thursday is Chicken Katso and i forget the other day specials. But it’s just as good and for a decent price!
Sometimes if I go there for a late snack, i’ll pick up some small goodies for my kiddo’s.
They do accept credit cards, but if it’s less than $ 10 they add $.50. i dont mind so much because it’s less than pulling out $$ from the ATM.

This place is AWESOME!!!
Finally figured out where all my coworkers are sneaking off to and coming back with delicious smelling Korean food!!! Trust me, there is nothing more torturous than sitting in a cubicle smelling other people’s Korean food at 10:15 in the morning… Sniff Sniff — where??? WHERE???
Plaza Mini Mart is located in Royal Capitol Plaza — a high-​rise condo near Kakaako. I’m pretty sure that if you don’t work or live IN the Plaza, you’d have no idea that this place even exists.
So if ya don’t know… Now, you know! Cuz Plaza Mini Mart makes some KICK-​AWESOME Korean takeout!!! And everything is sized and priced to make the perfect lunch supplement!
They have mini orders of the following:
Chive pancake
Fried mandoo
All kinds of banchan — cabbage, cellophane noodle, broccoli, and more!
California maki and hand rolls
Hard boiled eggs
Breakfast items
And a whole store full of snacks and drinks
Most side orders are priced around $ 1.35 or so. Last visit I got a mini combination of chive pancake and mandoo for $ 3.50. This was really filling and I never had room for my lunch later on in the day! You can also get plates made to order, so I’m definitely going back again!
NOTE: I’ve seen the owners taking turns cooking more pancake and refilling the take out bentos. Every time I’ve eaten here everything seems really fresh, but I tend to buy stuff before noon. The entrance is off Curtis street between Kawaiahao and Kapiolani Blvd. There is a little turn around for the Plaza, so you can probably run in if you’re grabbing something pre-​made. I’m so ono for that chive pancake, I’m gonna have to go back tomorrow!

Love this little place and can’t believe it’s not on Unilocal yet!
I’m here just about every day. Around my work, this place probably has the best value. They’re a mini convenience store with all the things that make it convenient + more! It’s in the perfect location, too.
They make really good bentos, have awesome snacks, and even carry small packets of medicine for those emergency headache or allergy cures. You want to laugh at some of the other things they have for sale there like salt & pepper shakers, etc, but it’s a mini mart at the bottom of an apartment building so you have to remember it’s really for the convenience of the apartment residents.
I heart this place.

You’d never know that this tiny place at the base of a condo makes a fresh, ono chicken katsu bento at a very budget friendly price.
The chicken katsu bento packs an amazing amount of surprises into the little container. The katsu is fairly thick, not pounded too thin, and comes with a quality katsu sauce, not the lame de rigueur fast food goop. There’s also a few florettes of bright green steamed broccoli, chop chae, fried mandoo, bean sprouts, a slice of scrambled egg speckled with kamaboko and spam, rice and takuwan. All this for just $ 3.95 including tax! Pretty hard to beat for an economical bento that really delivers in quality and quantity.