Waiakamilo Shopping Center

Dining and shopping in Kalihi, Honolulu, Hawaii...Waiakamilo Shopping Center is an open-air strip mall with McDonald's and Firestone on the Dillingham Boulevard end and bars at the mauka (mountain) side.There are many bars here: Club Lilac, Club Eclipse, and Club Lucky Frog... to name a few. I haven't been to any of these... LOL!I have been to Original Pancake House, Lucky Box Restaurant, and Ha Long Pho Noodle House.There's a veterinary clinic and a liquor store that I haven't patronized. I didn't even realize that there was a second level on the mauka end!There are many exits and entrances - one on each end (Dillingham Boulevard and Kaumualii Street) and about three along the length of Waiakamilo Road. Just drive slowly and carefully...Be safe out there!

Waiakamilo Shopping Center contains a few of my favorite places to eat including The Original Pancake House and Ming's Chinese Restaurant. It also contains a McDonald's, an auto repair place, a variety of hostess bars, a liquor store, and more.This shopping center is rather small compared to other shopping centers, but it is still useful having this place here. I like coming here every so often. Parking is interesting as many of the stalls are marked "Reserved", some are marked "30 Minute Parking," and some are marked "90 Minute Parking."

This strip plaza looks and smells like it was transplanted from a mainland housing project during the mid-80s. The dumpsters for the street-side businesses face the front doors of the businesses along the back of the plaza. So as you're standing outside of The Original Pancake House waiting for a seat, you get to smell the sweet aroma of another restaurant's dumpster juice. Mmmmm. Also, the parking lot is absolutely laced with "reserved" spots. What does it all mean? Who are they reserved for? Nobody knows. Why 3 stars then? Pancakes with coconut syrup, that's why.

Not much to say about this place..Been comin here since i was a kid...Its not much of a "shopping" center. Theres a few bars and places to eat like Mcdonalds, Waiakamilo Drive Inn, Pancake House and Mings Chineses Restaurant...There is a pet vet here, a hair salon and a liquor store...Parking can get pretty packed during the day

BEWARE IF ORDERING TIRES ONLINE AND HAVING THEM DROP-SHIPPED TO FIRESTONE FOR INSTALLATION. They do not all sizes of tires. The Manager there said that they do not have the proper equipment to mount lower profile tires. "We can still do it but your rim may get scratched or damaged". Of course I didn't agree to this and ended up having to put the tires in my trunk and leave.Such a limit in services (low profile tires are not at all rare) is already bad enough from a National Tire Shop. What made it all so worse was but they didn't tell me this until I was there for my installation appointment. Why didn't they work with Tire Rack ahead of time so Firestone wouldn't come up for installation for low profile tires? Also when Firestone received my tires, why didn't they let me know they couldn't install it. Instead, they completing my reservation both online and on the phone. After all, they had my tires for over a week before my appointment day. Or at the very latest, at least when I had checked in that morning and not after waiting an hour when my car actually was going into the repair bay for installation!