Ray’s Kiawe Broiled Chicken roasts some tasty huli huli chicken in Haleiwa, Hawaii.
When you visit Haleiwa, Hawaii, there are some great choices for places to eat – there are some nicer high-end dining restaurants – but the places that serve the best food are usually the small hole in the wall spots.
Though it only happens on the weekends Ray’s Kiawe Broiled Chicken, is one of the best places in town, or even on the island of Oahu, to eat the Hawaiian style grilled chicken known as huli huli chicken. On Saturday and Sunday, in the parking lot of the main Malama supermarket in Haleiwa, Ray’s sets up its grilling production. The grill is probably one of the most amazing grills you’ll ever see in your entire life – they literally took an entire truck trailer – and I’m talking the construction sized trailer – and turned it into a massive rotisserie chicken grill. They can literally cook, or shall I say roast, on entire flock of chickens at one time. For food lovers like you and I, their grill is like a trophy of culinary triumph.
Anyway let me get back to the huli huli chicken. To the chicken is first marinated in a combination of pineapple juice, soy sauce, sugar, and some other ingredients and seasonings. This marinade gives the chicken an amazing flavor, that’s not actually too strong, but just subtle, sweet and sour, and of course nice and salty from that soy sauce.
When you arrive to Ray’s Kiawe Broiled Chicken, there’s usually a continuous line, but since most people take away, and since the menu is so concise, the line usually moves very quickly. You really only have a couple of choices of what to eat, you can get a full huli huli chicken, a chopped huli huli chicken, the special sauce, and their pineapple coleslaw. Of course there’s rice also available. I decided to go for the whole chicken, and chopped so that we could eat it immediately, and also a side of the special sauce and pineapple coleslaw. I was actually going to eat right then and there, but unfortunately there were no seats, so I decided to jump back in the car and head to the beach. That chicken smelled amazing.
Kiawe is actually the Hawaiian word for mesquite wood – the chicken is roasted in the fragrant coals and smoke of mesquite – another dimension of flavor. The chicken was cooked to perfection, it was nice and juicy, and a bit oily, but it wasn’t overcooked. The meat was incredibly flavorful and so juicy even the white meat. The special sauce tasted mostly like a combination of soy sauce and a hint of vinegar. That salty and sour flavor on pieces of chicken made it really tasty.
Overall Ray’s Kiawe Broiled Chicken serve some delicious huli huli chicken, and if you happen to be in Haleiwa, Hawaii, on the weekend, it’s worth grabbing a chicken or two for the beach.
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What is the name for the grill?
Mark make a video showing your workout regimen. Because since I started watching you 3 years ago I put on 30 lbs. Lol.
he hadnt perfected the ohhh, ohhh woooowwwwww yet , the early days. good job Mark, youve come far 🙂
COLESLAW! See brah, u gotta get da mac salad
BEEN THERE SO MANY TIMES..
Ummmm, excuse? Oh comon sistah lets go kaukau, OMG, I just go for not knowing WTH is all this, I was sort of mad thinking calling me a ckicken, Till they gave me a sample, OMG, it taste so ONO, wow, I said them, now this is why I kept seing you on YTube, Mark, Can you pls, txt me the recipe pls. Pls, Mahalo.
Hey Mark Wiens, lol, lol, lol, I'm so hungry wen I saw you eating those Turn Turn huli chickensThose are the (bom) best ever. Wen I used to leave @ Maui, I heard my friends says lets go get some Huli Huli chicken.
do you have to eat like that
Malasadas! Oh yeah…
I mean wood…lol
Most of the Hulihuli trucks here in Hawaii uses Kiawe would…
Omg I just ate that this morning. So good..Broke the Mouth …I can eat the whole chicken to myself. I'm glad I live only 5 minute away from Rays…also next time..Try the Camaron Food Truck and Crispy Grinds Food Truck. It so amazing !!
wow That food looked so good delicious…………………..///?
“This looks like the secret sauce. I think it’s like soy sauce and pineapple juice or something.” Great line man. I’m dying!!!!! ??
Mark I haven’t seen Seattle. Come check us out.
When you look at that, there is only two things that come to mind,
DAMN THAT'S SOME FINE LOOKING CHICKEN, AND I CANT WAIT TO DEVOUR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is up with the background music? Feels like i'm watching barney tv show. Awesome video though. 5 thumbs up.
HI , WERE CAN I PURCHAS THE ROTISSERIE MACHINE ?
Correction, Mark! Huli-huli is NOT grilled. Rather it is roasted. Huli in the Hawaiian language means to turn or flip over.
Хули хули Курица?
I LOVE grilled chicken.
The huli huli chicken looks so delicious! The meats cook on wood charcoal is the best!
damn i cant believe i missed this spot!!!! i was craving something grilled in hawaiii. especially chicken too
I ate this chicken, delicious. went back there another to buy more and it was closed. I think they are not open all days of the week. maybe closed on Sundays.
makese wanna eat exotic foods!!!
I don't like flies.
Wow brah – looks good. Gonna have to try. My favorite is Koala Moa off Nimitz or at the entrance to Bellows.
I'm glad how Mark's videos have improved now! still love all the videos tho
That would go amazing with sticky rice.
I love Cole Slaw and rotisserie Chicken!
I wanted you to try the cole slaw with the chicken!!! It's so much better that way! Love your videos, btw!
was the best chicken ive had in my life. wish I had the recipe for the marinade to make it in minnesota
I think i ate on that rock before when my family went around da island i ate musubi lol
no seasoning=no taste very disappointed!
that fly wanna eat too
my favorite, Ray's Hulihuli…luv it!
Damn flies always ruining perfectly good meals lol
your amazing Mark !
Flies are the devil.
a flock of chickens being roasted harmoniously – lol – nice sentence/phrase – I think you should try to get a sentence of similar or greater linguistic competence in every video from now on…
great video, greater food, beautiful scenery,
HOW DARE THAT FLY!
Miss the barbarcue chicken by the Malama Super Market esp my sister Amelia Fifita N the husband Kali Fifita ,N our Waialua Ward N our friends N everything about Haleiwa ,miss U MOKULEIA N Waialua N Haleiwa forever ,
ITS IS SO TRUE ,SO DELICIOUSSSSSSSSS ,I USE TO LIVE IN MOKULEIA ,THE DILLINGHAM RANCH FOR 30 YRS ,WITH MY HUSBAND N 7 KIDS N NOW WE MOVE TO ANTIOCH ,CALIF ,WATCH THIS MANNNNN WE MISS THE NORTH SHORE ITS LIKE OUR HOME ,WE ARE TONGAN BUT WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE FOR SHARING THEIR LAND WITH US ,THEY ARE AWESOME PEOPLE ,LOVE N MISS THE SPIRIT OF ALOHAAAAAAA ,HAWAII IS ALWAYS IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER ,AMEN !!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE THE FALEOFA FAMILY FROM MOKULEIA LAND COMPANY MY HUSBAND WORKS OVERTHERE FOR YEARS , LV HA
Get you own utube channel and you can do whatever you like… You don't like it, don't watch. Mark, you're the best on YouTube! Keep making that face.
Don't make that face too much…really?