Kawamoto Store — Restaurant in Hawaii

Line was out the door at like 9am, but sooo worth it! We ended up ordering a build your own bento box en route to Volcano Nat’l park, and boy I wish I had enough time to go to this place once more before we left. The shrimp tempura and the ono tempura was so tender and fantastic. I preferred the ono to the mahi imo (mahi was a little on the drier side). I’d skip the musubi, unless you’re looking for a heavy rice snack to hold you over. The long rice is like a thick glass noodle and it was delicious!! I didn’t want to share with my fiancé lol. Tempura eggplant and the shoyu fish cake were both excellent as well (the latter was a little sweet but I rather liked it). Overall, everything was delicious here – highly recommend! Oh oh and the Japanese manju cake things that are in plastic packages. They’re like pie crust outside and red bean inside....

I went in to buy Korean Fried Chicken based on a recommendation and was told to go early because they sell out early, I arrived at 11:00 AM. I was cautious and ordered five pieces, when I got to the car I ate one and immediately got out of my car to get more. I returned and the entire tray was gone, they were sold out. The Korean Fried Chicken is downright amazing, great crunchy texture, well flavored, and the chicken is well cooked while remaining juicy and not dry. The food and service are 5 out of 5, the atmosphere is a 3, they are not aiming for atmosphere, they deliver on food and service. I will have to try their cookies and other items on my next visit. I saw people buying boxes of them. I will go back and will definitely go multiple times when visiting Hilo. I only leave reviews when the food is fantastic and this...

A very unique restaurant serving bento boxes, seemingly popular with locals and tourists alike. You may have to wait a while yo get your food, but it will definitely be worth it. Once you get to the front of the line, you select what you want in your box from a display case filled with different types of chicken and fish, noodles, sushi, spam musubi, and much more. Everything we had was excellent, and we tried a wide variety of their offerings. The prices were also surprisingly affordable given Hawaii standards and the high quality. Seems like a lot of locals call orders in for pickup, so you can try that if you want to save time, although I preferred the experience of seeing the options before ordering. Either way, you can’t go wrong...