Ken’s In & Out Plate Lunch

Total hole in the wall, they handled our huge order well. Everyone enjoyed their meals. Pick up some lunch here and take it to Waimanalo beach.

I was hungry and their Mochico chicken was good enough. I’d go back if I’m in that area.

Nice whole in the wall. I had the pork. It was good, but would like to try other things. Definitely worth stopping and definitely better than subway or jack in the box.

This is one of my personal favorites. Ive been here in 2009, and when i have the time, i make the trip up waimanalo to visit this little restaurant. Fast, efficient and friendly service by the filipina who works the counter. I usually order the Pork Guisantes (Pork and Peas)

Prices was reasonable but the food SUCKED, we barely ate the food before we dumped all 6 plates and went to Windward mall to eat.

Really hungry and low on cash? This is the place to go!
I’m a fan of Kens. They’re always so sweet and eat what you pay for. $ 5 for a breakfast plate that’s filling. Can’t go wrong with bacon and over easy eggs. Their other options are also tasty.

I have weird food cravings at very inopportune times sometimes. It’s like I’m constantly pregnant. Smh and it makes it very difficult to satisfy these cravings especially in places like waimanalo where there is not much variety.
I found myself killing time at this little shopping area in waimanalo one day with a bad craving for spicy chicken wings (not the American kind, the asian kind where the spicy sauce is mixed in with the batter and then deep fried). I stumbled around the parking lot, trying to decide if tacos from jack in the box would satisfy my craving or if I’d have to get a plate of dukbokki from Ohana karaōke (I know, I’m a weirdo and don’t make any sense sometimes). That’s when I found Ken’s. Kens serves a variety of plate lunches and breakfast plates. There are some local foods like shoyu chicken (yum!!) and a lot of Filipino foods too.
After championing the hoard of flies right outside, I poked my head in the door to read the menu and found chicken wings as an option for a plate lunch. I wasn’t THAT hungry and waited in the very long line to ask if I could just get a side of wings. The friendly cashier happily obliged and told me I could order just a side of wings, even though it wasn’t on the menu board. Six wings for $ 5 is a steal in my book! I happily left with my styrofoam box of wings. They were pretty delicious too.
The interior desperately needs some renovation and I can’t speak too highly of the way it made me feel about the cleanliness of the place. It seems like a lot of tourists come here… not really sure why since many of the dishes are Filipino. There was a sign for «bagice» on the wall. I just assumed it was a Filipino fish I’ve never heard of. NOPE. «Bag Ice». The Filipino people who run this place didn’t put a space. Lol.
I’ll probably be back for the wings. It was too perfect in satisfying my very precise craving. I won’t stick around to eat there though.

Ok. Stumbled in here after a hike. Kinda sketchy. Got mixed plate, mini loco moco, and banana lumpia. Loco moco not as good as Rainbow or Zippy’s, but not bad. Mac salad a bit bland and kalua could have used a bit more smoke.

Bargain breakfast plate served all day! Two fresh eggs & choice of Portuguese sausage or Spam, with toast, a mountain of rice & a soft drink for only $ 5! Freshly cooked & a bargain compared to the nearby fast food places, with fresh eggs cooked to order, not the reconstituted egg-​like facsimile.

Id rather go here than to the L& L arcoss the street!

on our hiking tour, we stopped for some lunch at a plaza where there were familiar mainland lunches, but we were in hawaii… it only felt right to get a hawaiian lunch plate, which consists of meat, rice, and macaroni salad. i got the galbi, or korean bbq short ribs. the meat was tender, but the macaroni salad was way too mayonnaise-​y for me. otherwise, a great meal.
ps, i also got the small plate, which was perfect. my husband got the regular with 2 meat options and was unable to finish it.

Ken’s In & Out Plate Lunch is located in the strip mall in Waimanalo sandwiched next to a subway and across from a Jack in the Box. I have been eating breakfasts here since the «Big Boy» was 3.25 (It’s now $ 5 — still an amazing deal). And it is the only thing I can review, as it’s the only thing I have ever ordered. You get 4 scoops of properly cooked rice, four pieces of toast, two eggs — cooked right, and six or seven pieces of bacon (the other standard meats choices — spam etc.- are alos offered). Basically it’s a heart-​attack in a Styrofoam clam shell. And it’s completely satisfying, much more so than than the jack in the box next door. Exactly what I want, what I would expect (well, even more meat than I would expect), and at a good price. Check it, and be sure to stroll down to the statue of Akebono a few doors down.

We wandered by this restaurant mainly because we were killing time waiting to meet a friend in Waimanalo. Ken’s is located in a non-​descript strip mall, stuck between a curio shop with plastic trinkets from China and a Subway fast food franchise.
Nearby, there is a statue of Chad Rowan, also known as Akebono, a Waimanalo local who made the top ranks of Japanese sumo as a yokozuna in the 1990s. Adjacent to the (crumbling) statute of Akebono, you can see assorted transients sleeping beneath a staircase.
Ken’s itself is about as clean looking as the bums sleeping under the stairs. I did not want to eat here. But eat here we did. A mini order of mochiko chicken was procured and taken into their air conditioned «dining room», which is actually a small 4×10 room with a couple of booths and a sliding door as a partition. There were flies all over the place, and you could smell yeasty baking bread from the Subway next door.
The food… the food was about as good as you could expect from this ragtag plate lunch joint.