Laverne's Lunch Wagon

Yes the one fronting The Home Depot, Kapolei...Food is tasty and in good portion. Curry Stew is what my wife and got
For lunch

Well what can I say I always passing by this food truck located in the old Kmart parking lot in waikele waipahu. Well today I told my husband let's try their squid luau for lunch. So after did some grocery shopping at safeway he went over there to order our squid luau but before he went to order I told my husband find something else to go with the squid luau. Well he took a while I was thinking had lots of people before him but NO he was taking pictures off their front of the food truck. SMH. He came back with plastic bag with our lunch. Park our car and to my surprise the plate lunch was in compartment style plate lunch not individually packed by itself. He ordered the chicken long rice plate, including the squid luau, lomi salmon, poi and haupia and of course the chicken long rice. The taste was okay, the chicken long rice was a bit salty and the squid luau was salty with a coconut milk taste their was squid cut up inside you can see it. But I thought it would have been on the sweet coconut taste more and not with that much salt added. Well at least I tried it and now I know how their hawaiian food taste like. If you looking for fast hawaiian food take out try this lunch wagon.

Laverne's Lunch wagon at the Waikele Shopping Center (same side as Safeway and McDonalds). We've tried their Hawaiian food and it was delicious. Today we ordered the Roast Pork with Gravy and Kalua Pig. Both were awesome. The Roast Pork was cooked perfectly and the savory gravy makes you want to eat it with a lot of rice with the Mac Salad accenting the plate (cool and creamy). The Kalua Pig had just the right amount of seasoning and cooked perfectly. They're very quick and efficient. They're very organized and very neat and clean (a well earned Green placard). If you're in the area and want some delicious food stop by and give them a try

My mom and I took a day at Waikele to check it out, having not been there in a while. Decided to get lunch at one of the food trucks. We chose Laverne's for a couple reasons... 1) Who doesn't like Hawaiian Food? 2) They had the shortest lime at the time. (About 2pm on a Monday), and it was necessary with 2 hungry babies in toll.

Anyway, my mom and I both ordered the Squid Luau plates, but I opted for Poi instead of rice. For the small size poi, there was an upcharge of almost $3. That's understandable, poi is expensive everywhere. Although the portion sizes sucked, it was really small as can be seen in the photo I posted. Even the Mac salad scoop was tiny.

The food taste was decent. The Mac salad though, was terrible. It tasted literally like just Mac and mayo. No salt, no flavor. A little disappointed with this visit. We'll try again another time though. Hopefully I'll be able to update this review with more stars the next time...

So salty!!!! We always see this truck and love Hawaiian food but it was not worth the almost $60 we paid for 3 plates!
First and last time.

I went to Laverenes Lunchwagon in Waikele. Located by Old Navy and Petco.
Decided on getting the Hawaiian combo..(kalua pig, chicken long rice, squid luau)..comes with 2 scoop rice and Mac salad and Haupia. Generous portions for $14.25.
Also ordered a laulau plate..the squid luau was tasty.
And I ordered the Kanaka Nachos $10.95..which i was disappointed with. Proportions was good but I was expecting more than chips and kalua pig. Not sure if cheese would have been a good topping. It just seemed bland.
Bottom line. Would I buy from Lavernes Lunchwagon...sure if I was craving Hawaiian food and was too lazy to make it.
Plates are lower priced than other Hawaiian food vendors and portions are ok

The Hawaiian Food here is bomb!
I keep coming back here for that Island fix. Everything on the menu is magically delicious. The kind of food that every bite tells you how much love was put in.
Tastes like genuine recipes were handEd down from many past generations. The food here is no joke. Serving size will put people to sleep(kanak attack). I bet if the cook sweats it will smell like Hawaiian seasonings exploded.
If you're ever interested in tasting the Polynesian Island love, come here.

Thank you for the clarification Travis, and you are right it is not. My whole review was partially based on the quantity but rather what really did it for me is that not one but both orders were wrong. We actually went and order again to give it another shot and somehow messed up again?? I just know my papa was also very disappointed both times with the food he was served.

I hear you about the proportions and prices, but even despite that the food quality is okay/good which means average for me.

Having worked and helped run a smoothie business in the past some people will love and others will have a totally different opinion that's just what comes with working in food industry. Again don't mean this disrespectfully just an opinion.

The food is pretty good. I ordered a combo plate and some sides. My children had plate lunches and they were more than satisfied. The portions were fair and everything we ordered was good. We always come just before the lunch rush so we don't usually have to wait too long.

I had my daughters Graduation Party and we catered from Laverne's. I ordered a wide variety of food and desserts. Everything was excellent! My guests were loving the food as well. Super happy with Laverne's and I will
definitely be ordering from them again.