Today, Filipinos are the fastest-growing ethnic group in Hawaii. More than 275,000 isle residents identify themselves as Filipino or part Filipino, 23 percent of the state’s population. LWHD said GU Industrial & Business Corp. has operated Gold Coin restaurants and bakeshops offering Filipino specialties and other food products since 1985. The locations on Oahu include Waipahu, Ewa Beach, Honolulu, Kalihi, Wahiawa and Wailuku. The division also assessed Golden Coin $23,240 in penalties for the reckless nature of its violations.
Some restaurant industry employers disregard federal wage and hours requirements recklessly making it harder for vulnerable, low-wage workers to earn a living and for law-abiding employers to compete. “Some restaurant industry employers disregard federal wage and hours requirements recklessly making it harder for vulnerable, low-wage workers to earn a living and for law-abiding employers to compete,” according to the US Department of Labor. In the last five years, the Wage and Hour Division has conducted more than 2,650 investigations in the drinking and eating establishments industry in the Western Region, recovering $24 million in back wages for more than 15,300 employees.
GU Industrial & Business Corp. has operated Golden Coin restaurants and bake shops offering Filipino specialties and other food products since 1985. Based in Waipahu – home to the company’s headquarters, a banquet facility, and meat and poultry processing and bakery facilities – GU Industrial & Business Corp operates Golden Coin locations in Ewa Beach, Honolulu, Kalihi, Wahiawa and Wailuku. Based in Waipahu – home to the company’s headquarters, a banquet facility, and meat and poultry processing and bakery facilities – GU Industrial & Business Corp operates Golden Coin locations in ʻEwa Beach, Honolulu, Kalihi, Wahiawa and Wailuku. The one dish that really impressed me the most in Guam, was their fried fish. On my plate, I was basically served a whole fried fish.
However, instead of a tomato and carrot flavor, there’s a vinegar and pepper flavor. The adobo is pretty much the classic version of adobo in my mind. It’s the same style of adobo that every other plate lunch place that offers it, tries to achieve.
Domingo, a travel and insurance agent/radio producer/announcer/notary whose office is a tiny cubicle in Northstar, helps people file petitions for spouses and other family members of U.S. citizens to come here. Next month, Hawaii’s Filipinos will begin a year-long celebration of 100 years of immigration.The first 15 sakadas, contract sugar plantation workers from the Philippines, arrived here on Dec. 20, 1906, beginning an ongoing cycle of immigration. Thanksgiving When the Manuel family first moved to Hawaii in 1923, they didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. Driving past Golden Coin on King St. in Kalihi, they had a big banner advertising their palabok. As this was one of the featured dishes at Jollibee as well, it was one of my first jumping off points for Filipino cuisine.
What Golden Coin does really well, is their 2-choice or 3-choice plates (the same as Patti’s or Panda). Instead of getting a chow mein, I went straight for a pancit bihon. Their pancit also utilizes translucent rice noodles, like the palabok. The best pancit I ever had, was of course, homemade by a Filipino lady who used to give us dance lessons. Her pancit was a completely addictive, chewy texture, almost similar to pad thai.
However, it must’ve been a different fish from the one I had in Guam. In fact, the skin on the fish, usually one of the best parts, was a little touch and scaly. But the meat was very nice and white, and the bones were easy to pick out. Golden Coin is pretty much the definitive Filipino plate lunch in Hawaii. What Patti’s Chinese Kitchen was to Chinese food, Golden Coin is to Filipino food.
At one time she had Caucasian and Japanese neighbors and also got along fine, she said. He had just wired $ the equivalent of about 33,738 pesos — to the Miller Sanitorium and Hospital in the Philippines to help pay for treatment of his wife’s niece. He usually sends about a $100 a week, but a larger payment was required this time. Many of its residents feel safer in Kalihi than if they were living in a less familiar neighborhood, like Kailua.
KALIHI is considered a “gold mine,” the most sought-after neighborhood for Filipino home buyers, said Roland Casamina, president and CEO of House of Finance. Waipahu and Ewa Beach are next on their list of choices, he said. Casamina, who evergreens are plants that maintain their leaves in all seasons and include trees such as grew up in Kalihi and now runs his business just blocks from his boyhood home, said Kalihi is close to the main bus routes — the lifeline for many Filipinos who rely on public transportation to get to and from two, sometimes three jobs.
Other than a different dipping sauce, the flavors of the lechon were essentially the same as any siu yuk you would find at a Chinese fast food place. Though they may use different herbs and seasonings, they weren’t really pronounced enough to make the lechon taste different from siu yuk. Worse, the lechon suffered from the same flaws as all Chinese fast food places. The fat was congealed and hard, and all around unappetizing.
