"When the Mandalay Cantonese restaurant closed its restaurant in downtown Honolulu earlier this year, we were sad because this restaurant was on many family and business banquets and celebrations and dim sum brunches for us. Within one month of completion, we heard about their plans for reopening in the Kaimukī Kapahulu area, and our taste buds were thrilled to continue supporting this locally owned business. Two months had passed, and we finally came together with close friends to have dimmed sum at this new location. The founders of the Larry and Linda Chan restaurant are full of circles after almost 40 years after they have and operate a local cantonese chain restaurant. Their first restaurant, Eastern Garden, began at this point and expanded to 4 locations on O 'ahu. We visited their Eastern Garden Restaurant in Westridge since we used to live in our marriage in the neighborhood of Aiea early. At the beginning or mid-2000, we remember to talk to Mrs. Chan about her family's plans to create a more sophisticated Chinese restaurant. And the next thing we knew opened The Chans The Mandalay in Downtown Honolulu, where they have been blooming for twenty years. I don't know if they decided to reduce because they wanted to retire or if the pandemic had something to do with their retreat to their original location, but for what reason, we're just glad to see them again. Thanks to Nadine for a reservation for our group of 7 people, as this would be the first time that we are all able to feed Kaimukī Kapahulu from Mandalay. We all parked in the much more remarkable additional parking next to Salt Lock Safe on Waialae Avenue. There are about eight stands on the same property as the restaurant. Waiala Avenue in front of the main entrance, and there is a lateral entrance from the parking lot. Mr. Chan welcomed us at the entrance. We told him that we were here for the confirmed reservation of the party of 7. He and all the staff of the restaurant wore their face masks, and there were a few tables that were marked to promote social confrontation in the main kitchen room. There was a container of Hand Sanitizer, from which we took one pump before we entered the first private space already set up for our group. After several photos from the interior of the restaurant the rest of the party arrived. Our server delivered glasses with ice water, two pots with hot tea and a menu. The menu was a list of dimme cums or Yaum-Cha dishes, noodles or rice dishes and desserts. Mandalay Restaurant does not serve the dimming amount of steam-heated cars. One of the participants reads the menu, and each of us has pinched in our desires that it is marked on the menu list. Within a few minutes the server began to bring out the dishes that were hot, fresh and tasteful. The quality and tastes of each of the dishes were just as we remembered from their former downtown location. The service was excellent as the server refilled our tea pots and water glasses. The servers would serve dishes completely, but would cut them into portions on our request. The dimming sum was priced as we ordered 11 dishes, and we paid $20pp that included taxes and tips. We are looking forward to The Mandalay again in our Dimm-Summe Essen Rotation."
