►Read more about Naty’s Filipino Food Kitchen here: http://migrationology.com/2015/06/filipino-food-honolulu-natys-kitchen/
Back in 2010, I spent about 2 month in the Philippines, exploring, doing all sorts of things, and eating all sorts of food. The amazing people I met, and the delicious food I ate, contributed to it being a very memorable trip. This time, I didn’t make it back to the Philippines yet (however, I hope to visit soon in the future), but when I was in Honolulu, Hawaii, I came pretty close to the real thing at a restaurant called Naty’s Kitchen at the Maunakea Marketplace in Honolulu.
The Maunakea Marketplace is located right in the heart of Chinatown in Honolulu, and if you walk inside the marketplace, and go to the food court section, it honestly feels like you’ve left Hawaii altogether, and have transported yourself into a market in Manila or somewhere in southeast Asia – it’s my kind of spot. There are a few different types of food to eat at Maunakea Marketplace, including a couple Thai stalls, but by far the dominating cuisine in Filipino food, and there are about 5 different Filipino food stalls to choose from. One of the most well known, and also they offer the most selection of dishes is Naty’s Kitchen. Naty’s Kitchen dishes out all the prepared food and has them all on display in the from cabinet, and you just pick and choose the different dishes that you want, which will then all be piled into a styrofoam container. Typically most customers might get a box with 2 dishes and rice, but I couldn’t resist ordering 3 dishes and then a bowl of sinigang soup on the side.
After getting my rice, I ordered the pork dinuguan, one of the more noticeable Filipino foods of pork and blood made into a stew. Although it might not look the most appealing, and some people even call it chocolate pork, it actually tastes quite amazing. It’s almost like blood sausage without the casing, except it’s much more moist and has a gravy. The taste was very nice, almost with a slight hint of a livery flavor and just a slightly sour flavor as well. At first I was also going to order the pork adobo, which is one of the most well known Filipino foods, but it was made with pork belly and after seeing how oily it was, I asked the Aunty if she had any other recommendations. She pointed to the pork igado, which she said had a similar flavor to adobo, but it was made with a less fatty cut of pork. The igado was excellent, including tender chunks of pork, in a pepper and vinegar sour sauce. Along with my rice, it was very good.
The last dish I got on my plate has always been one of my favorite Filipino foods, a dish called pinakbet, which is a mixture of different vegetables fried up with shrimp paste. It wasn’t overly shrimpy or overly salty, just had an excellent fragrance, and a good mixture of vegetables that went well with all the pork dishes. Also, I couldn’t resist getting an order of pork sinigang. When I was in the Philippines I really enjoyed eating fish sinigang, a sour tamarind soup, but here at Naty’s Kitchen in Honolulu this day, they only had the pork version. The flavor of the soup was very good, but the pork made it a little on the oily side – it was good but I would have preferred the fish version.
Naty’s Kitchen is an excellent and quite authentic restaurant in Hawaii that serves delicious Filipino food.
Naty’s Kitchen – Maunakea Market Place, Chinatown
Open hours: I went there at about 11 am on a weekday and they were open and thriving, but I’m not sure of their exact business hours
Prices: All the food I ate and ordered above cost $11
How to get there: Naty’s Kitchen is located in Chinatown at Maunakea Market Place right in Honolulu, Hawaii. If you can find street parking that’s great, otherwise there is a municipal parking garage nearby.
Read the full blog post: http://migrationology.com/2015/06/filipino-food-honolulu-natys-kitchen/
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Mama sitas spices are also good
Bulalo and halo halo sweet dish is delicious ?
Pancit bihon and Adobo is yummy ?
Hi Mark I love and enjoy Philippino food it’s so healthy and yummy ?
He chose well. They are all good. Mabuhay. I love the dinuguan too.
Thank you so much for these videos
I like your facial delicius expression
love—
I SO LOVE YOU VLOG SIR YOUR MY IDOL
Im drooling ???
Igado is an original ilocano dish, in the northern parts of the Philippines, and in fiestas it's always on the table
why filipino food in hawaii why not filipino food In the Philippines
Up next…. karekare, laing, & bangus! ?
It’s yummy OMG ❤️❤️❤️?
mark you inspire me and makes me wanna start doing videos like you. Also all your videos are so entertaining. Keep making videos please 😀
To expensive for that food. ..
Here in bicol you can have it by 3 dollars
Mark Wiens thank u for trying our filipino food. The way how u eat i liked it.. and seems u enjoyed. I love u and thank u! More power to u!
Sir Mark if you come to the Philippines again with Ms.Ying and Maica, I would love to tour you in Bulacan and have you try several dishes?
Next time try ukoy with suka to dip.(suka.sili.sibuyas.paminta all together)
Mark Wiens I so love all your vlogs!!!
sssooooo , i remember that face………. thanks mark, you made my day.
Two ways to cook sinigang ….I either use vinegar or the packet of Tamarin powder..both are ok…depends what your taste bud at that time or what you are craving for..
Next time you travel to the philippines, go to Laoag City…so much more dif cooking from the Southern part of the Philippines…and also, next time you come back to Hawaii, go to Kalihi San Nicolas…their food is great too…I do there a lot!
Saraaaap!!!
This guy is weird
Dinuguan is my favorite filipino food ??
revisiting the first video i have watched by Mark Wiens haha
Omg, this is awesome! And I'm on a diet!! ?
A slight head tilt on the first bite of that dinugoan. ?
It's not bitter melon. It's bitter gourd. Or gourd. That's the correct name for that specific vegetable. ? Melon is round shaped fruit
Definitely Filipino food is good!
I miss dinuguan.,in my 2 years here in saudi arabia all i wish when i go back home is dinuguannnnnnnnnn.
Dinuguan is dirty food tsk tsk
I love dinuguan too, try also chicken tinola (my husband loves it too) and morcon (stuffed rolled skirt steak with liver sauce), cheers from Australia! Come and visit Oz, we're in Tasmania, you'll love it too, similar to Palawan but colder and plenty of seafood- salmon, crayfish/lobster, etc. I catch plenty of squids, yellow tail mackerels, etc. during summer ( from around December to February).
thats my favorite what you order and also dinuguan,pakbet and igado mmmm yummy
ok Mark, will be there sometime when I come back to Honolulu, thanks.
Hi, Mark. I love how you take a huge spoonful of food to fill your mouth. I was taught as a young girl to take teeny mouthfuls. But now I eat the way you do (big spoonfuls) and chew slowly to enjoy the flavors to the fullest. Lol. Love your videos. (I'm Filipino living in Colorado.)
goes to hawaii to have filipino food lol go to hawaii for traditional hawaiian food
Filipino cuisine looks really good, especially the one's with pork !!!!!!!!!
Thank you Sir Wiens for introducing our foods, good thing you dont get fat like us Pilipinos lol Take care & God Bless!
That first dish is one that you just don't want to know the ingredients.
Best "yummy" face ever. lol
Sinigang and dinuguan my two favourites.
It's great to know that you like Filipino foods!
That's my aunty my dad's sister who was serving you. You should try my mom's place AJE'S Cafe. Next time you come hawaii let me know know. I will take you to the best places to eat in hawaii. And i will dish you up some of the best foods in my family cooking. I hope you come and visit here again.
Dinuguan is porks blood.. Igado is an Ilocano Dish!
im jelous that looks good
Hello Mark, I had been watching your travels around the world for food, especially in the Phil., which is where I came from. I have noticed that you don't mind eating the innards and I' not sure if you have tried the one dish that is made of pork beef lungs. If you love dinuguan, you will or I should like the BOPIS. It is sauted in garlic,onions, and tomatostomatoes (?) with vinegar, and chili. I love it when it is cooked with lots of spice( hot). Just try it when you can,and good luck.
Thanks for sharing all your travels and also in introducing your lovely wife and a very good looking baby.