It’s Aloha Friday, which means the end of the workweek, for me at least. To celebrate the impending weekend, I spent my lunch break near the ocean, eating endless amounts of Hawaiian food. Wish you were here? HAWAII Magazine was invited to attend the Aloha Friday Luncheon at Shore Bird Restaurant in the Outrigger Reef […]
King Kamehameha Day is not until June 11, but Waikiki begins its celebrations this weekend. If you’re here on Oahu, check out these events. The celebration kicks off tomorrow at Aliiolani Hale (Honolulu Civic Center), where the King Kamehameha I statue will be decorated with 13-foot lei at 4 p.m., followed by music and hula
Wanna share a little bit of Hawaii’s beauty with someone? Send it to them in a virtual postcard. Thanks to the City and County of Honolulu, you can send beautiful landscape pictures of Hawaii for free. Just click here. The process is pretty simple. The hardest part is choosing among the 35 designs—from Hawaiian sunsets
I can’t get enough sushi. One of the places to indulge in this Japanese cuisine is Makino Chaya, located in Aloha Tower Marketplace. The restaurant’s decoration is a bit cheesy (where else would you find fish and octopus legs hanging from the ceiling?). But don’t let that deter you from entering the restaurant. Makino Chaya
You ask. We answer. Several HAWAII Magazine readers have sent us e-mails asking if we knew the date of this year’s Taste of the Hawaiian Range food event. The curious included Monte and Xena Ferrario of Stockton, Calif., who said, “We travel to the Big Island every year and would like to take our next
Gladys Knight loves Hawaii. And Hawaii loves her. Knight rocked the Neal Blaisdell Arena this past Saturday at “The Rhythm of Romance 2” concert. As part of the second annual Hawaii Romance Festival, HAWAII Magazine was invited to hear the R&B superstar perform with the Matt Catingub Orchestra of Hawaii.We were also serenaded by singing
I love getting dim sum. If you like seeing food before you order it, there’s no better way to dine out. And Mei Sum Chinese Dim Sum Restaurant is the place to have it when you’re in downtown Honolulu’s Chinatown district. Carts of Hong-Kong-style dim sum are rolled around the restaurant right to your table.
Hawaii’s largest producer of macadamia and kukui nut oil products turns 20 years old this year. As part of Oils of Aloha’s birthday celebrations, HAWAII Magazine was invited to take a tour of its production facility in Whitmore Village on Oahu. Their expeller-pressed process is a complex multi-step procedure that extracts and purifies the macadamia
A mysterious package arrived for me at front desk. I felt like a mad scientist when I opened it and a fog rose from the Styrofoam box packed with dry ice. When the fog cleared, I saw five whole boxes of Mikawaya’s Mochi Ice Cream. Mikawaya is based in Los Angeles, but mochi ice cream
Little Village Noodle House has been one of my favorite restaurants. This week, I’ve eaten lunch there twice. It’s hard to resist this place because the food is excellent and the restaurant is within walking distance from our office. The menu is divided into 12 sections: Appetizers, Soups, Salads, “Beef, Lamb & Pork,” Poultry, Seafood,
After watching Anthony Bourdain eat at Puka Dog Waikiki during his food travelogue No Reservations on the Travel Network, I had to have a Puka Dog. But “What is a Puka Dog?” you might ask. A Puka Dog is like a hot dog, except with an unusual bun. A mini loaf of bread is toasted
One of the joys about HAWAII Magazine is that our readers love to talk story with us. As a result, we’ve created a section in our magazine called, “Your Hawaii”—an assortment of short stories about our readers’ Hawaii experience. In our May/June issue, HAWAII Magazine reader and geologist Lawrence Galiano and his wife, Lori, of
