Martha Cheng

Martha Cheng is the former Dining Editor for HONOLULU Magazine. She also writes for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Food and Wine, and Eater. In past lives, she was a line cook, food truck owner, Peace Corps volunteer and Google techie and has degrees in Computer Science and English from Wellesley College. She really likes listing things. More than a decade ago, she came to Honolulu for a boy and stayed for the people and ocean. She was born in San Francisco but prefers surfing in Hawai‘i.

Articles

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Closing Indigo

Recently, after 19 years of business, Indigo closed its doors.

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From Our Files: Food

HONOLULU Magazine and Paradise of the Pacific—chronicling the Islands since the 1888 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Glenn Chu on Indigo's closing

Chu reflects on starting the restaurant that launched the Chinatown revival, the good days, the mistakes made and his future plans

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Hunan Cuisine in Chinatown

Honolulu is dominated by Cantonese-local hybrid restaurants that tend to blur together after awhile. Enter Hunan Cuisine.