Is Chef Chai Still Open? Mystery Diners Update (Honolulu, HI)

On the Season 8 episode "Bad Credit" (Mystery Diners, aired 2015-01-07), Chef Chai, chef-owner of his namesake restaurant in Honolulu, noticed multiple voided tickets on the register and contacted investigator Charles Stiles for help; mystery diners went undercover to watch how the register and voids were being handled during service. According to Wikipedia's article on the program, citing its sources, the show's own end-credits disclaimer allows that certain events may have been staged or re-enacted for dramatic effect, and a television critic quoted in the article judged the show's scenarios implausible and unconvincing. Chef Chai, a Pacific Rim and fusion dining room on Kapiolani Boulevard, was checked directly on 2026-09-09: its website listed an August 2026 events calendar, a full slate of dinner, beverage, and dessert-tasting menus, a working reservation system, and recurring Full Moon Concert and happy-hour listings, along with pages for private events and a photo gallery.

Only the restaurant's own site was checked for this record, so this check treats the finding as a single, dated source rather than independently confirmed elsewhere. No ownership change, closure, or relocation was found in connection with the Kapiolani Boulevard address since the 2015 broadcast, and no third-party listing consulted contradicted the restaurant's own current information.