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Shopping and Lunch in Lihue, Kaua’i

March 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

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Genki Sushi, Lihue, Kaua’i

Dallas and I went to Lihue to Kukui Grove Center, the largest shopping center on Kaua’i, not that it’s really that big. We looked around Macy’s but didn’t get anything, we each got some things at Déjà Vu surf shop (I got a Billabong handbag and this cute Paul Frank tshirt), and then Dallas got some University of Hawaii caps at Lids. For lunch 2007_03_genki_logo.jpgwe went to Genki Sushi. I love that place. It’s not the best sushi ever, but it’s so much fun. Dallas took me there last time we were in Kaua’i and I liked it so much, we had to go back.

Basically, the sushi chef stands in the middle and puts things a conveyer belt that runs around the restaurant. You take what you want off the belt and eat it. At the end the waitress adds up how much you owe based on color coded plates.

After lunch we went to Borders and ran into Dallas’ brother, Jordan, who was also out shopping. I wanted to pick up a few books by local press that wouldn’t be available on Amazon or in Chicago. I also wanted to pick up some local tunes. I asked Jordan for advice on some contemporary Hawaiian music and he showed me what to get, but told me the CDs were cheaper at Costco, so we went over there and bought them.

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Keoki’s Paradise: A Kaua’i Favorite

March 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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Keoke’s Paradise, Poipu, Kaua’i

After arriving in Lihue, we dumped our bags off at the condo, met up with Dallas’ sister and friends who arrived a bit earlier than us, went to Big Save to grab some beer and other things quick, then went to Keoki’s Paradise. It was our first stop off last time we were on Kaua’i too. A great restaurant for some really good, fresh seafood and a few more umbrella’d mai tais.

John, Susan, Dallas and I had dinner at Keoki’s while Caroline, Dallas’ sister, and her friends Tammy and Carrie just stayed Keoki’s bar for drinks. Our table split some ahi sashimi, panko crusted scallops with wasabi butter sauce, and some mushu pork (Kalua pig, cabbage, and plum sauce with mushu wrappers) for pupus. For an entree I had opah (a white, moist Hawaiian moon fish) saute’ed with citrus, shoyu and sesame butter sauce with garlic smashed potatoes. It was fantastic and a great way to relax and end a really long travel day.

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go!

March 11th, 2007 · 3 Comments

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Drunk Paparazzi in the Honolulu Aiport

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Umbrella Drink No. ?, Honolulu Airport

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Mai Tai at the Mahalo Bar, Honolulu Airport

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Walking to the go! Plane, Honolulu Airport

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go! Plane to Lihue, Honolulu Airport

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When we got to Honolulu our traveling wasn’t quite over yet. We needed to take a quick trip over to Lihue, Kauai. Except that our inter-island flight on go! got canceled so we had to wait 4 hours for the next one. Instead of calling up a friend or relative in Honolulu to come get us and get out of the airport, we just killed some time drinking in the airport bar. We had all of our luggage with us and John and Susan were arriving shortly, so it seemed easier to just wait it out than anything else. What a long wait, though. By that time we were in the air for something like 9 hours and just wanted to be at our final destination.

Until recently, Aloha Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines were the only two airlines that provided interisland flights. They were pretty much the same, if you ask me, and each charged about $100 each way for flights between the islands. Then along came Mesa Airlines with go! and everything was all shook up. go! decided to do round-trip flights between the islands for half the price of Hawaiian and Aloha – only $100. So, of course Hawaiian and Aloha airlines had to lower their prices and it was a huge controversy and everything. We flew go! for the first time and it was pretty standard. The only sort of strange thing was that you have to purchase any drinks you wanted.. no free POG like Hawaiian and Aloha offer. I always thought it was weird to have drink service on a 20-minute flight anyway. If they want to skip the drinks and offer half-price fares, that is fine with me.

One funny thing is that for the instructions and safety information, go! uses a recording of a guy, maybe two guys, saying it all in a local dialect with some pidgin thrown in. It’s kind of funny. Probably the only time I’ve listened to that stuff in years. They even start out with a good “Aloooooha!” and end with “Ahhhhhhright”. Funny. The only bad thing was that go! is located way out in the commuter terminal, which Dallas said is the really old inter-island terminal. Nothing really wrong with it, but it’s just a hike to walk or take a shuttle to.

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Pupus With Friends, La Playita Azul, Barbecue Inn

July 20th, 2005 · No Comments


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That night we went to Larry & Eleanor’s house in Kalaheo for pupus. Larry showed us his mountain apple tree and we tasted the fruit from it – kind of sweet, with a kind of bitter skin and was much smaller than a normal apple. Eleanor and Larry had prepared and purchased a ton of pupus. Everything was so good, I wanted to eat a ton, but I also wanted to save room for the dinner I knew we were having later on at one of our favorite restaurants, La Playita Azul.

We dropped off Dallas’ dad, George, and his sister Caroline at Barbecue Inn in Lihue for a night out with George’s cronies. Then Dallas and Kathy, his mom, and I went over for mexican seafood in Kapa’a at La Playita Azul. This was a place we fell in love with last year and HAD to go back to.

Later on, back at Barbecue Inn, George’s friends peer pressured me into eating some smoked meat of some sort.. I think they said it was wild pig? I don’t know. It actually wasn’t as bad as it looks. It’s the pride of Kaua’i, I’m told.

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Kukui Grove in Lihue, Kaua’i

July 20th, 2005 · 4 Comments


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Last Monday everyone was golfing at Poipu again so I took the car and went shopping at Kukui Grove Shopping Center in Lihue. It’s pretty much the only mall in Kaua’i. I bought a Roxy skirt at Macy’s then had lunch at Deli & Bread Connection and then drove over to Borders.

By Borders and Big K there was a stand selling malassadas but Kathy kept promising me we’d have the best malasadas at a bakery in Honolulu later in the week so I resisted the urge to try them and buy them from the stand. I found out later it was definitely worth waiting for the good ones!

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