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Hawai‘i Island, Kauaʻi, Maui, Oʻahu, Travel Tips

The 20 Best Hawaii Fine Dining Restaurants: HAWAII Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards 2014

Last summer and fall, we asked our reader ohana to share their picks of the best of everything Hawaii for our 2014 HAWAII Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards. Thousands of our Mainland U.S., Hawaii and international readers responded, packing their Readers’ Choice ballots with hundreds of selections for everything from their best Hawaii hotels and resorts, […]

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Hawai‘i Island, Kauaʻi, Maui, Oʻahu, Travel Tips

Top 5 favorite Hawaii hiking trails

A trek through a crater once filled with molten lava. A hike to the summit of one of Hawaii’s most iconic natural landmarks. A couple of lush forests hikes ending at mountain-stream-fed waterfalls. And a multi-day hike along an otherwise virtually unreachable Kauai coastline. We’ve counted the hundreds of answers submitted by HAWAII Magazine’s Facebook

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Hawai‘i Island, Kauaʻi, Lānaʻi, Maui, Oʻahu, Travel Tips

The 20 Best Hawaii Luxury Hotels and Resorts: HAWAII Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards 2014

Last summer and fall, we asked our reader ohana to share their picks of the best of everything the Hawaiian Islands have to offer for our 2014 HAWAII Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards. Thousands of our Mainland U.S., Hawaii and international readers responded, packing their Readers’ Choice ballots with hundreds of selections for everything from their

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First-Time, From Our Magazine, Hawai‘i Island, Hawai‘i Island Where To Eat, Restaurants, Where To Eat

Monumental Mochi: A Morning at Hilo’s Famous Two Ladies Kitchen

“You didn’t pre-order?” As she says this, the woman behind the counter at Two Ladies Kitchen stares at me in disbelief. A line of customers winds behind me and out of the small downtown Hilo mochi shop and onto the sidewalk alongside bustling Kīlauea Avenue. “You have to pre-order. They sell out,” she scolds, gently.

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Arts + Culture, Family, First-Time, From Our Magazine, Hawai‘i Island, Hawai‘i Island What To Do, The Latest, What To Do

Get Baked! Making Portuguese Sweetbread with Kona Historical Society

It’s 6 a.m., Thursday, in Kealakekua. The sun has yet to break through the morning haze lazing over the small town on the slopes of dormant Hualālai volcano, just south of Kailua-Kona. Not a car is in sight on Māmalahoa Highway, winding through town. On the pastures below the Kona Historical Society’s H.N. Greenwell Store

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Hawai‘i Island, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu

Are you ready for some whale counting? Volunteers welcome for annual Hawaii humpback whale Ocean Count.

Imagine spending a morning in the Islands watching humpback whales breach and spout as they migrate through the warm Hawaiian waters, all the while helping marine scientists study the habits of our largest annual visitors. These are just two of the benefits of volunteering for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Ocean Count,

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Food, Hawai‘i Island

Where to eat a loco moco in Hilo, the town that invented it

The least-disputed story of the creation of the loco moco—Hilo town’s legendary, high-calorie contribution to the Hawaii cuisine vernacular—begins in the late 1940s with a gang of hungry teenagers, who called themselves the Lincoln Wreckers. As perennially hungry as they were low on spending money, the Wrecker boys compelled the owner of one of their

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Food, Hawai‘i Island, Travel Tips

How to eat like a local: Big Island

From addictively ono Hawaiian poke to the most oishi strawberry mochi to the crispiest Chinese fried chicken, these Big Island faves will keep you satisfied. Hana Hou Restaurant A hand-painted sign at the entrance of Hana Hou Restaurant in Naalehu reads, “Drake and Patty Fujimoto proudly welcome you to the southernmost restaurant in the USA!” The

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Hawai‘i Island, Travel Tips

Top 5 favorite Hawaii small towns

A couple thousand of you voted, we counted every answer and now we’re ready to reveal the results of our latest HAWAII Magazine Facebook Ohana Poll question: “What’s your favorite Hawaii small town?” We received so many votes, in fact, that it’s possible there isn’t a town between Naalehu on the Big Island and Hanapepe

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