Frolic’s Top 10 Stories of 2022
The posts you bookmarked, shared and drooled over the most.
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We Rounded Up Your Top 5 Dim Sum, Manapua and Oxtail Soup on O‘ahu
We asked, and you voted—see how your faves stacked up in these hotly contested reader polls of 2022.
Battle of Two Manapua: Sing Cheong Yuan and Royal Kitchen
Melissa Chang and Frolic reader Chad Yamamoto go head to head with their favorite baked manapua in Honolulu.
August 2022: Our Top 3 Most Viewed Posts About O‘ahu’s Food Scene
We had no idea how much you wanted to know where to find the city’s best meat jun, local beer and lemon meringue pies.
Hale ‘Aina Award Winners: Secrets of Making Dim Sum at Jade Dynasty and Tim Ho Wan
We venture into the kitchens of two of our winning dim sum restaurants for a look at how favorites like har gow and baked char siu bao are made.
You Voted: Here’s Your Top 5 Dim Sum Restaurants on O‘ahu
Fook Lam, Happy Days, Jade Dynasty, Mei Sum and Yung Yee Kee: Find out how you ranked them.
Reader Poll: Your Favorite Dim Sum on O‘ahu?
Pork hash, har gao, chicken feet, more: Tell us your fave spot by midnight Friday, then check back next week for the results.
New: Xiao Long Bao at Mr. Dough, and Revisiting the Sheng Jian Bao
First we reviewed the still-evolving pan-fried soup buns. Now, xiao long bao: Too thick or too thin or just different?
First Look: Mr. Dough Has Soup Dumplings and More Near Ala Moana
The former MW Restaurant space is now home to the Hong Kong-based chain specializing in sheng jian bao.
February 2022: The 3 Frolic Hawai‘i Articles You Liked Most
Pageviews don’t lie—here are the stories you read and shared most.
Chinatown’s Mandalay Is Now in Kaimukī and It’s Delicious
A new chef is dishing up killer char siu and lobster e-mein.
KaSnack Attack! Yung Yee Kee’s Famous Dim Sum Are at 7-Eleven Hawai‘i
So how do these dumplings hold up to convenience store treatment?
How to Eat Xiao Long Bao and Other Tips for Enjoying Soup Dumplings in Honolulu
It’s loved by many but a daunting task for dumpling freshmen. We share three methods for eating xiao long bao.
Essential eats: Where to satisfy your dim sum craving
Week 8 of stay-at-home and at this point, especially the day after Mother's Day feasting, we're all about comfort food. Here's what people have been asking about and what you can find for takeout and delivery all over Oahu: succulent…
Upscale Dim Sum Is Now on Kapiolani and It’s Excellent
Yung Yee Kee opens with Hong Kong flavors near Ala Moana Center.
A Dim Sum Crawl of Chinatown
Six stops on a Saturday morning to get all our dim sum faves in Honolulu’s Chinatown and we are stuffed.
Poll Results: Here’s Your Top 5 Crispy Gau Gee
From Wai‘anae to Lā‘ie, crispy gau gee ranked by readers.
Tim Ho Wan Waikiki just started a $5 happy hour
Update: As of January 2020 the restaurant had discontinued happy hour. “Affordable” and “Waikiki” are seemingly mutually exclusive. Well, Tim Ho Wan Waikiki just launched a happy hour and it’s pretty affordable. This happy hour menu debuted Aug. 5 and will hang around until…
Chinee Like Me: Dinner at Tim Ho Wan Waikīkī
The Michelin-starred Hong Kong dim sum eatery’s latest outpost opens at Royal Hawaiian Center.
Something new: Yauatcha
This restaurant has closed. Sponsored When you think of dim sum, it’s usually a noisy brunch crowd in Chinatown with large carts of steamer baskets lumbering past. But when you bring dim sum from a chain in London, you know…
Chinee like me: Dim sum at Yee Hong Pavilion
Chinese New Year is on February 10, but Honolulu starts celebrating this weekend with lion dances, the big Choy Cheng event, Night in Chinatown, and the big Cultural Plaza festival. It is the one time of year that I eat…
Chinee like me: Dim sum at Royal Garden
Since I’m Chinese, people often ask me where the best dim sum in town is. To be honest, it kind of depends on various factors, like price, service and overall quality. It also depends what year it is, as Chinese…
The five-course prix fixe menu has risen the ranks to become the city’s best tasting menu and it changes every month.
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Here are all the Hawai‘i James Beard Awards 2023 semifinalists.
