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FUUD: Stanley’s Chicken Market on Ward

By Catherine Toth Fox • June 24, 2011 • Food

It’s something I used to see every weekend growing up in Hawaii, huge billowing smoke emanating from roadside grills.

You knew someone was cooking huli-huli chicken.

Huli-huli chicken is one of those only-in-Hawaii dishes, credited to Ernest Morgado of Pacific Poultry who barbecued this style of chicken in 1955.

Doused in a special teriyaki-style sauce, the chicken was cooked between two grills, which had to be flipped over — or huli-ed — to cook both sides.

Since Morgado has the rights to the name “huli-huli chicken,” you don’t see many folks cooking the once-popular fundraising item anymore.

And that’s a shame. It’s easily one of my favorite things to eat, and you can’t buy it anywhere — with the exception of Koala Moa on Nimitz Highway, but that’s more roitisserie chicken than huli-huli — but from roadside grills.

But one place that comes very, very close is Stanley’s Chicken Market on Ward near Sports Authority.

I couldn’t believe that this roadside stand has been here for 16 years. The original business had been around for 65 years, selling chicken mostly wholesale. But for nearly two decades, Stanley’s has been grilling up chicken on this corner most Saturdays.

How had I not known about it this long?

A huli-huli chicken connoisseur I know invited me to have lunch with him here, at his favorite Saturday spot. (He brings his own wet wipes and cup with ice.) Here’s what we ate:

Stanley's Chicken Market

Stanley's Chicken Market
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Located on Auahi Street facing Ward Warehouse, this roadside stand has been here for 16 years.

Stanley’s Chicken Market, 1020 Auahi St. near Sports Authority. Phone: (808) 593-9989

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4 Comments

  • Reply oldshoes June 24, 2011 at 1:29 am

    nice. guess u gotta bring you’re own mac-salad too. So…..after all these years….you do drink something other than diet coke! How did that happen?

  • Reply M June 24, 2011 at 6:55 am

    Guud morning Cat, Happy Fuud pixs Friday! That chicken looks soooo ono!

  • Reply matt June 24, 2011 at 7:16 am

    looks like i have to check that out next time i’m home.

  • Reply ssunaoka June 24, 2011 at 8:56 am

    I had no idea that was even there. I guess I need to get to town on a Saturday sometime.

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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