"On Oahu, that’s 7-Eleven, where you’ll find dark chocolate-glazed mochi doughnuts and warm manapua (bao) of lap cheong wrapped in fluffy, soft dough. While you wait to pay for your takoyaki corn puffs, the construction worker in front of you is picking up a bento of guisantes, a Filipino tomato-based stew with pork and peas. Schoolchildren race down the aisles to grab a few award-winning Spam musubi, and the newly debuted tonkotsu ramen with fresh noodles is all sold out by the afternoon." - Martha Cheng