Million Restaurant

Ever wonder where you can go to eat in the middle of the night?  Your best bet would be a place like Million Restaurant.  It's open for 21 hours a day!  What???...you heard me!  This place serves some of the best Korean food around and also offers yakiniku grills if you'd prefer to grill your own meats and vegetables at your table.

Tonight, our party of three arrived at Million at about 8:00 pm.  Luckily, it wasn't too crowded, which guaranteed fast delivery of our food....we were hungry!  We ended up ordering our standard fare, Outside Beef Skirts (US$18.95).   This is beef that has been cut into bite-sized pieces and comes to your table sizzling hot on a bed of onions and topped with sesame seeds.

The beef, as usual, was very tender and flavorful.  It's served with rice, seaweed soup and seasoned lettuce salad. 

This beef is meant to be dipped into various sauces and wrapped in lettuce with fresh garlic, rice and kim chee.

In addition, like most other Korean restaurants, there are a variety of ban chan (Korean side dishes) that are served with your meal, including:

cabbage kim chee (pickled cabbage)

cucumber kim chee (picked cucumber)

chap chae (cellophane noodles with meat and vegetables)

tagyal chim (steamed egg custard)

kong namul (soybean sprouts)

odeng (fishcake)

yongun jorim (soy-sauce glazed lotus root)

We also had one order of the fried man doo (fried Korean dumplings, US$3.95, 4 pieces).

Let's just say that after all of that, I felt like I needed to be rolled out of the place.  I was stuffed...and stuffed full of great tasting Korean food!  This is one of my favorite places to eat!

If you are in the mood for some great Korean food...or are just looking for something to eat in the middle of the night, stop by Million Restaurant, you won't be disappointed!

Million Restaurant
626 Sheridan Street
Telephone:  808.596.0799

Comments

[Min]

Aiii i must really eat at a korean restaurant soon...everything looks so droolsome expecially the beef and gyoza(?).I hear they use bulogni sauce for the bbq marinate...keep bumping into them at asian markets and wondering if i should buy them:)24hr korean restaurant is really so amazing!

Great site and excellent pictures you have here.Good job:)

[Reid]

Min, thanks for the compliment. There are just so many Korean restaurants here in Hawaii to eat at. This just happens to beone of my favorites.

[nai]

reid--

sad to say, but million is 21 hour no more. they don't serve lunch at all and they are open from, i think, five pm (forget what time they close) every day but monday. found that out the hard way, when i had already spent a good five minutes talking it up with my friend, who had never been there. we were looking forward to the beef intestine stew. we ended up at choi's garden, which has no such stew. i had a squid stew but it was more soupy than stew-ey. =( but if you do go to choi's garden, they have an EXCELLENT spicy butterfish. in fact, my former boss, who is korean, says mrs. choi does the best spicy squid stir fry in town. alas, we were in the mood for stew, and sodonggong wasn't gonna cut it. but anyway...yep. million not open 21 hours no mo.

[Roger]

If you like Bi-Bim Bap then you have to try dol-sot bi-bim bap which comes in a large scalding hot stone bowl which makes the rice touching the bowl crispy.

[HarleyDog]

This is our favorite restaurant in Hawaii. A little rough around the edges, but go there hungry and you won't be disappointed. The bulgogi yakiniku is great, make your own lettuce "tacos" with whatever topings you like. No two are alike. Go there with clothes you can toss into the washer immediately when you get home...you will reek. But a good kind of reek. Like BBQ and kimchee. See my review and site at http://home.hawaii.rr.com/gonebananas. Aloha