All the Food Coming to Filipino Fiesta 2024 This Saturday
Preview some of the food and happenings at Hawai‘i’s largest Filipino cultural event on May 4.
Photo: Courtesy of the Filipino Community Center
The Flores de Mayo Filipino Fiesta is the largest Filipino celebration in the Islands, drawing 8,000 to 10,000 people every year. Over 70 organizations, community groups and vendors will bring food, performances, entertainment and more to the Filipino Community Center in Waipahu. There’ll be park-and-ride stations along the Skyline rail, live music by Eli-Mac, an adobo cook-off, balut-eating contest and a Santacruzan procession of Filipiniana attire. The daylong event is a cultural staple for the community and coincides with Flores de Mayo, a popular monthlong festival season in the Philippines.
This year’s theme revolves around celebrating our resilient community. With people still reeling from the wildfires that tore through Lahaina in August, Filipino Fiesta aims to celebrate what brings us together: our determination to overcome obstacles and emerge stronger than before.
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When and Where
Saturday, May 4, 2024
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Filipino Community Center
94-428 Mokuola St., Waipahu
How Much It Costs
Entrance to the Filipino Fiesta is free and open to the public.
Where to Park
Free parking is available at August Ahrens Elementary School, Waipahu High School and Royal Kunia Park and Ride with free shuttle service to and from the FilCom Center.
What to Eat
Blue Truck Teppanyaki
Teppanyaki
Corn Onoz Hawai‘i
Corn on the cob with a variety of different flavors and ube horchata, calamansi fresca, guava nectar fresca, pineapple mango fresca
Photo: Courtesy of the Filipino Community Center
Cools in Catering by Sinublan
To-go bentos with rice, pancit, pork guisantes, shanghai lumpia, dinaraan, chicken adobo, beef steak, chicken, pork
Hawaiian Honey Cones
J-shaped corn cones with Hokkaido ice cream
Kealoha Seafoods Da Hub
‘Ahi poke and katsu, Da Beef Kids meals, deep-fried Spam musubi, smash burgers, Modagee fries, Pordagee foods
Photo: Martha Cheng
Magnolia Ice Cream & Treats
Halohalo, ice cream scoops, shaved ice, siomai, siopao and hot dogs
Photo: Courtesy of the Filipino Community Center
Mama Merce’s Kitchen
Lumpia, pancit, barbecue sticks, chicken skin, adobo, beef steak, lechon kawali, pork belly roll, dinuguan, guisantes, pinakbet, beef kaldereta, sisig, fried chicken and bicol express
Photo: Maria Burke
Merienda Maui
Chicken inasal rice bowl, barbecue ribs rice bowl, pork sisig nachos
Princess Liz Creations
Bread, ensaymadas, desserts and merch
Photo: Courtesy of Sama Sama
Sama Sama
Milk tea, green tea, iskrambol, halohalo, mais con yelo, buko pandan and coffee
Sugah Daddeh’s Kane Juice
Fresh pressed local sugar kane juice with fresh fruit toppings
Teapresso Bar
Boba drinks, lumpia and cookies
Entertainment and Programming
Live entertainment is scheduled throughout the day on the center stage and will include modern and traditional cultural performances, a headlining set by Eli-Mac, also known as American Idol contestant Camile Velasco, and other local entertainers. There will also be an adobo cookoff and a balut eating contest around noon.
For more information and scheduling, visit filcom.org.
