CJ Market

Fujioka's WineSam's CheeseCharlie's ChickenSpring MixCoffeeVodkaHamWalmartDeodorantPicklesGift card Babies or Us (that's right!) ChinatownAppleGreen onionOnionCabbage Carrot Green beanTofuDaikon Remember the time when people hand wrote shopping lists? And you could say you lost them? Now we have text. :( CJ is a dive convenience store, no two ways about it. They have all the usual stuff, cookies, crackers, chips, soda, etc.. What makes this five stars for me is this...location, location, location. Located east of Maunakea St., and several blocks before the Walmart on Bethel, it's the nearest place to grab beer, wine, Tabasco, for the BYOB restaurants, west of Maunakea, that you don't plan to spend to much on the sauce. The owner is pleasant and the store if kept in reasonable order. But, let's face it...it's a crackhead Mecca. Back to my fable. Remember the time when you paid $5 for a Colt 45? No you don't, cause it never happened. Remember when you thought you were the BSD, cause you scored a couple of 40's for you and your homies, and it was malt liquor!!! I'll give the high makamaka beer crowd a minute to get their underwear out of their crack. Okay...After a morning of shopping (by myself) I felt rather emasculated. There was CJ, and I knew that I had to man up. PBR was on my radar, but low and behold what do I find next to it???You got it...Colt 45!So, what'd you do? You take that tall boy and pop it in the freezer (no you put in the ice!). You make a huge Sammie (huge!) and eat it with one hand while the other has a death grip on that rock glass full of 45. Then you take a nap, and you dream you're young, the BMOC, and you're a TMF. You wake and write a review on yelp. You write a review (a review!) and it's on yelp? Come on...really? You're on yelp. Man up? *Sniffs, spits, claws neither regions...I wrote a review on Yelp. I'd like to thank CJ Market and G. Heileman Brewing Co. for making this review possible. Mahalo (and of course Yelp and Billy Dee Williams aka Lando Calrissian!). Aloha ;-)

We were in Chinatown for a show at one of the bars/clubs on Hotel Street. The show ended around 11:30pm on this Friday night, and we were walking out of Bar 35 heading west. We come across this little shop across the street - still brightly lit, open, and welcoming. This shop is actually located on Hotel Street, between Maunakea and Smith Streets. Diagonally across from the Honolulu Police Substation.With nothing but bars/restaurants open this late, this shop was a diamond in the rough. It was the only liquor store still open this late at night in the middle of Chinatown. If you wanted to buy some snack for the drive home, you'd probably have to go all the way to Longs/Safeway on Vineyard! Here, you would see the typical fare you'd expect from a liquor store - snacks, booze, soda, etc. A friend purchased a bottle of Jim Beam Apple on this visit. Who knew you'd find it here!English is not a strong-suit for the shop owner. I asked him if it was okay for me to take a photo to post on Yelp. He did not understand my question and just did that "no/yes" nod. Best of luck to the owner here - we all know he'll need to deal with so many shady characters in this part of town!

This is a convenience store that sells liquor, soft drinks, snacks and prepared food on a street with heavy foot traffic.Being on Hotel Street in the heart of Chinatown this store attracts very interesting clientele. I mean, if you ask me I think people watching here has more excitement than at Starbucks!Whenever I buy soft drinks or iced coffee here they put your drinks in black plastic bags for anominity. With the Chinatown Police Substation across the street you need to be discreet when purchasing alcohol and walking around with it.I find it very smart for the owners to have the cashier, hence cash register elevated so it makes it more difficult to rob here.If you're in Chinatown and want to grab a drink and a bag of chips this is the place to come to. I've found this place to be very well lit and clean. However, their business hours for Sunday are not consistent, where I downgrade place by a star.NOTE: The staff here go to church on Sundays so they don't open until later. Times vary on Sundays but usually open by 1pm.

A very convenient location for a convenience/ liquor store haha, but the selection of everything - drinks, snacks, toiletries, ect - is just terrible. Like, it's nice that it's there and u can buy something, but it's going to be some shitty version of the thing u want. Not cheap either. Wish it stayed open later too, midnight at least... Glad it's here tho and better than nothing. Located central to the Chinatown nightclub scene and street scene, you get a lot of different customers in here which can lead to interactions some might consider interesting and others might consider unpleasant. Employees are pleasant and nice, especially considering all the craziness they must constantly be dealing with. Hats off to them

Just started visiting this facility A few weeks ago. The clerk has always been nice to me. I will return. Niceness goes a long way.

The owners/cashiers are rude and treat everyone like a criminal. I guess they don't understand how things work in America.. I sent my husband to get me cigarettes before they closed, with MY debit card.. They were very rude to him, wouldn't let him make the purchase. He explained to them that this is my wife's card and you need a pin to use it, they said "it's a stolen credit card, You get us in trouble, you leave now"... ITS A DEBIT CARD with a Mastercard logo that you need a pin to use dummy's!But again they treat everyone like criminals. Every time I go in there myself to buy something they stare at my ID card and DEBIT card like I stole it. What if I was handicap and couldn't go anywhere myself, they're gonna deny business because of who's name is on a debit card? I believe as long as you have someone's permission and their pin that you can use it.

Don't come here. They're racist and does not like colored people. They will tell you to get out or "shush" you. I also went to buy a small bag of hot cheetos, snack size funyuns, & a Gatorade all that's equaled to $5 I gave her $10 and got my change as I looked at it I got back $1 and as confused as I was I went back in line because I thought hey she charged me for the big bag of cheetos so I went back in line and told her that she charged me for the big bag because I only got $1 in change... anyways I was pissed because she told me that the cheetos I got was $2 and I said then why didn't I get back more change and she couldn't refund me my extra change that I was supposed to get all cause she "couldn't remember" first off if you have a business you would document everything sold/bought I stepped aside for not even a min and she already "forgot" what a rip off. And it makes me more mad the fact that I'm a student don't even get any income besides my $5 tip that I save for lunch.