Golden Coin - Waipahu

The same Golden Coin we love just in Waipio! Conveniently located down the street from Costco and Starbucks, this location is small but mighty. Serving all your favorite Filipino foods: Diniguan, Pork Guisantes, Pork Adobo, and more! Came here for the pastries and I was not disappointed. Love their banana lumpia and puto. Easy to buy in bulk and always fresh. Warmers and coolers loaded with breads, fry mixes, jello mixes, and drinks. Prices have risen but the quality is still delicious. The line tells me there's still a need for places like Golden Coin homey, comfort food. Definitely a must stop if you're craving!

Line starts here. I rarely come here for entrees, I'm mostly here for desserts. Because really most of these entrees you can make at home but desserts are a pain. But if you do feel like coming for a meal, the dishes are good. It's traditional Filipino food from pancit bihon or palabok or Miki (not the Maui kind) I don't get the rice because really almost every Asian household has a rice cooker. Unless it's garlic fried rice, then it's two scoops please. You can get an order of kare kare (again the double wording like cow cow, which I know you read that review), to pinakbet, to chicken afritada, to BBQ pork sticks. Let's throw some lumpia, char sui, longagnisa (the sweet one my favorite), any soup, to dinuguan preferably dried. They have a lot more but you get the picture. And desserts everywhere. I don't care for their cakes because there's to much decorations on them. Where the heck are you going to put the candles? At this location there's plenty of seating. I believed they have a private room upstairs but not sure. I mean there's an elevator and it has to go somewhere. Overall four stars. Food is good and they have tasty desserts. Not quite five because sometimes the food sits out too long on the warmer line and gets burnt. Now excuse me, time to grab a halo halo. M

I was craving kuchinta and didn't want to drive to Seafood City because their availability is hit or miss. Since I was already at Waipio Costco, I called the Golden Coin down the street to see if they had kuchinta in stock. I got lucky as they had one left and the cashier set it aside for me. I was pleased with the portion and the fact that it's cheaper than the ones I buy from Seafood City. However, when I got home and opened the plastic wrapper, it smelled like it was starting to spoil. At first I thought it just needed to air out because it was hot inside their store. I ate two pieces but the smell was off-putting and made me lose my appetite. I ended up tossing the rest in the trash because I didn't want to risk getting food poisoning. In the end, the kuchinta from Golden Coin ended up costing me more than the ones from Seafood City since I only ate two pieces and trashed the rest. Memo to self, don't buy food from here again.

Decent place to get your Pinoy grinds. I don't recommend the inihaw na liempo though. As good as it looked on the warmer it was dry and very jerky like chewy and hard. Unless you don't mind paying to repair your teeth stay away from that. Other than that the kare-kare is good and mostly all the desserts. They specialize in that. Can't go wrong with the lechon also. It's ono!

The only place in the Waipio area where you can get your Filipino food fix. The food is tasty and fresh and the staff is friendly.