Food

Oahu, September 2007

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How do I love Hawaiian food, let me count the ways. One, poke. Two, uhh.. err.. ahh... malasadas? Well, I really like poke, so maybe it should count for more than one. We really knew we were in a different place when we went to get some staples at the first Safeway supermarket we saw. In their deli section, they had no less than 17 different types of poke.

In addition to the meals we had on our own we also ate at a Japanese restaurant with the Chez Panisse contingent, had another meal at the house the Chez Panisse group rented in Waimanalo, and on our final night had the 7-course tasting menu with wine pairing at Alan Wong's in Honolulu with Em's brother Raymond. For a pdf of the menu click here. Em wasn't so impressed with the food and the service was a bit lacking, even though our waiter was very nice. (Many of the dishes and individual elements of the menu were great... However, too many of the dishes were either overpowered by sauces or the flavor combinations were confusing to the palate. Maybe I've been at Chez too long...) Regarding the wines, he told us that Paso Robles was near Santa Barbara! For me, the Bonny Doon Muscat was much to sweet.

The Japanese department store Shirokiya in the Ala Moana shopping center in Honolulu has great food! Clockwise, from the upper left we have rice with a lot of pickly stuff in it, a grilled squid, scraped toro sashimi and sautéed mustard greens.

Don Quijote sold about 15 kinds of poke, yum! Everyone eats POKE, yeah! We have two kinds on this particular plate. At about 6 o'clock there is Ahi-limu poke and at 7 o'clock is the white crab kimchee. Poobie liked both!

My assembled fruit basket in our studio in Kailua featuring guavas from the Old Pali Road and apple-bananas. The rest of the fruit, papayas, mangoes and pineapple I got at the Thursday farmer's market in Kailua.

Another great meal in Kailua featuring rice and grilled meat, this time beef and shrimp.

Shrimp from Romy's shrimp shack. The shrimp are farmed in a field right next to the shack.

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