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75 Places To Eat Like A Local Poke
Food

HAWAII Magazine’s “75 Places to Eat Like A Local”: Poke

HAWAII Magazine’s 2014 Food Issue is on sale now. Among its main courses is “75 Places to Eat Like a Local,” our now annual guide to the Hawaii places you’ll find residents like us heading for great eats when we’re hungry. This year’s “75 Places to Eat Like a Local: Mixed Plate Edition” digs into

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Food, Oʻahu

Hawaii’s boldest bowls of noodles in Chinatown

We’ve got the cure for the common ramen. While inhaling a bowl of simple, comforting, hot and savory noodles is amazing, these modern dishes take it to the next level, with those extra touches and addicting flavors that keep us coming back for more.  Belly Bowl Lucky Belly     Gloriously and unrepentantly porky, our favorite bowl at groovy,

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Food

“Power to the Poke”: How to make Filipino “Jumping Salad” Shrimp Poke

Five Hawaii chefs. Five anything-but-ahi poke recipes. No disrespect to the noted palate pleasures of fresh tuna, but there’s more diversity to the popular Hawaii-born comfort food favorite poke than simply using fresh ahi (tuna) as a main ingredient.  That’s what our upcoming November/December Food Issue feature “Power to the Poke” is all about. For

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Culture

Top 5 favorite Hawaii-filmed TV series ever

Hawaii can boast of its fair share of classic movies filmed here in the first century and change of cinema. Not so, though, classic TV series in the last half-century or so of the television era. For every long-running Hawaii-based hit series like the new Hawaii Five-0 and classic Hawaii Five-O, a journey through the

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Hawai‘i Island

The brilliant beauty of Mauna Kea’s little-traveled Mana Road

Mana Road doesn’t reveal its treasures easily or obviously. Situated halfway up the eastern face of 13,803-foot Mauna Kea—between the dormant volcano’s sweeping cloud-level koa and ohia forests and wind-whipped alpine summit—the rugged and remote 40-mile mountain road and unique landscape it traverses are little known even by longtime Big Island residents. For anyone adventurous

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