chun wah kam noodle factory

i think it's pretty safe to assume that the majority of my readers have never visited kapolei, hawaii. infact, up till a few weeks ago, i hadn't been there myself.

the town kapolei is brand new. so new, that the two-lane roads that for so long worked just fine in connecting kapolei with the rest of oahu are congested like you wouldn't believe. most of kapolei is (a) newly built or (b) being built. 

so on tuesday evening rosa announced that we were going to eat dinner in kapolei at this new chinese place. ok whatever, as long as they have white rice and chicken something, i will be a happy camper.

then we pulled into this place: the chun wah kam noodle factory. we walked in and my jaw promptly hit the floor. the place is fabulously decorated: minimalist and modern, asian, red and white. cement and stainless steel and glass. the bathroom was even fabulous.

so what you do is go up to this counter and stare at all the food options. at some point, an attentive employee will ask "may i help you" and you will nod (because by this point you are speechless) and they will ask if you want a "small or big box". a small box is $6.75. you can have either one starch (noodle or rice- and not just regular, plain, white rice- we're talking 8 different kinds of fried rices and 8 more kinds of noodles to choose from) or you can split that one starch into two smaller servings of different starches. by the time the guy on the other side of the counter had scooped in my rice and noodle choices, i thought he was going to have to get a second box for my two choices of entrees. 

but he had been well trained. he knew to keep shoveling it in. when i left, i had dinner for that night, and lunch for the next day. all in one small foam container.

now that we know what we're doing, we've decided that next time we (rosa and i) are going to get the big box (AKA 2 meals for 2 people), for $10, and then we'll have 4 choices for starches and 4 choices for entrees. we can share these, getting to enjoy more different dishes and save money at the same time. 

so next time you are wandering, starved, through kapolei stop in and check it out :).