Hook Chu Cemetery Hook Chu Cemetery is one of several cemeteries clustered on the mauka side of punchbowl crater in Pauoa five minutes driving distance from Oahu cemetery in Nu’uanu. It is a Chinese cemetery on the hillside across Pauoa stream next to a credit union. On observation the marked graves here consist of mostly Chinese names, some family plots, Chinese-Hawaiian and Hawaiian plots. According to the tombstone record, also included here are Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Irish, British, Filipino, and Japanese. Planted on top of several of the graves are plumeria trees that have grown to reasonable size. Graves are very well tended with potted flowers and plants. Interesting to note, there is what appears to be a Samoan-Hawaiian name with a papaya tree growing from the grave, and another with a noni plant growing as well. Oldest observed tombstone marker is 1917 http://webomatica.com/kaulapi/random/three/am-studies-418/honolulus-cemeteries-hawaiis-multiculturalism-etched-in-stone