I'm posting from Shokudo, a Japanese restaurant right next to Ala Moana Shopping Center and five minutes from Waikiki. This mobile post, typed on the go from my laptop whilst I polish off a platter of ahi tatami atop a bed of lettuce and a passel of grilled gyoza gurgles in my gut. Microsoft is sponsoring this and other mobile posts I've been doing on Hawaiirama. Thanks for underwriting my mobile lifestyle, Microsoft. On to the food. Mixed reviews. Upside? Beer is terrific - am quaffing a 27 oz bottle of Orion, a very light brew from the Land of the Rising Sun. Shokudo is a smart looking place with wrap-around booths for two that are perhaps designed for really small people. The lighting is a bit too bright but the place has a nice Devo-esque vibe. My seared ahi tatami salad was dynamite. My colleagues spinach salad less so. In short, stick to traditional Japanese and seafood and eschew the wilder stuff. But Shokudo is fun, relatively cheap and not a stodgy old-style local Japanese restaurant at all.

—Alex, 03/22/08