New Mui Kwai Chop Suey — Restaurant in Oʻahu

When you don't have anything nice to SAY.... DON'T.

Having been born, raised here in the islands and of Chinese descent, I don't have many favorite Chinese restaurants. Having lived on the mainland and been a cross-country trucker, I DIDN'T much care for the Americanized Chinese cuisine with only 2 or 3 main sauses. So if you fancy yourself a foodie expert & critic in Americanized Chinese food... STOP READING. THIS PLACE, ITS MENU AND THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE DISCERNABLE HAWAII LOCAL PALATE.

If you are visiting or staying at BNB's in the Kailua Area on the Island of Oahu and want to experience as close to Cantonese dishes as you dare...THEN look up the website and their menu items. My grandpa would take his entire ohana( his, hers and ours. 16 kids and 20-40 grandkids) to the Mui Kai chop suey in Kaneohe. This is comfort food review from a local boys perspective and the only other Chinese restaurant I would recommend is Kin Wah also in Kaneohe. As for their food New Mui Kwai makes the grade and worthy of mention. WEBSITE has the item # and prices.

Today's order: Crispy Gauge Gee, Beef vegetables Chow mein, Egg Foo Young, Crispy Roast pork, Kau yuk w/ bun, cold Ginger chicken, fishcake rice soup, shrimp Canton, Beef broccoli, roast duck. They added rice cake and gindoi.

The ONLY REASON I"M GIVING 4 STARS is I haven't eaten in their restaurant yet. I'm a 24/7 CAREGIVER to my terminally ill dad, hence I have no review for the dining-in experience and no fifth star until then. But the ease of looking up menu on the web, mapping on most apps for directions, comparable menu prices and #'d items help with not miscommunicating call-in orders( If don't use it, you're the idiot) and growing up with good local version of Chinese cuisine. not that Americanized cusine they try to pass as Chinese food on the mainland and here at some places gets a 4 STAR RATING from me. Take it or leave it, makes no matter to me. But they've impressed me enough to WRITE THIS LONG REVIEW and if you read this far, maybe they will impress you too if...

Ordered take out, drove from Kaneohe to Kailua 15 minutes, our food was at the pick up counter, our order was Chinese chicken salad ( not what use to be blah) also had the dinner plate ( that was ok only slightly warm???) I use to eat here all the time ,lived in Kailua over 50 yrs food back then was always great and hot... What happened? did not know Chinese chicken salad was half a head of lettuce bland shredded chicken and thousand island dressing, dinner plate was almost as bad beef broccoli and noodles was the only good part. Will not order dinner take out any more I will stick to the items in display case manapuas, rice cakes, crispy gau gee, you know the finger foods those are the best. Maybe was getting to be time to go home...

This happened twice. I ordered stuff eggplant and both times I got stuff bittermellon. The first we ate it. The second time I decided to go back. When I said I am returning this I ordered STUFF EGGPLANT not stuff bittermellon. Now how can you distinguished the two?... the lady said I ordered bittermellon. So I told her I did not. Then she tells me they are out of the beef for stuff eggplant so I ordered beef sour cabbage. And I had to tell her is there a price difference? If I didn't say anything she wouldn't have given me any money back. She just gave me my food. And what really got me irritated not even a sorry. The lady just took it for granted I said bittermellon. I probably wont order here again. I'm sorry. It was a...