Kimchi Fried Rice: BaLe Wailuku Just Nails It

Kimchi Fried Rice: BaLe Wailuku Just Nails It

You think of really, old-time local places for the best fried rice – places that have been around for a long, long time.The kim chee fried rice is new to the Ba-Le menu. It has just the right amount of heat. Of course, you can add hot sauce which I do to one side of [...]
Hawaii Pools That Rule: Holualoa Inn High Above Kona

Hawaii Pools That Rule: Holualoa Inn High Above Kona

This is the Big Island’s version of Tranquility Base. A blue pool high in the heavens above the rolling green volcanic slopes of coffee country, this aquatic attraction is not huge but does manage to be highly exclusive. That’s ’cause the Holualoa Inn is actually on the small side, with only six rooms. But small [...]
Overlooked Museum Gem on Oahu: Tennent Gallery

Overlooked Museum Gem on Oahu: Tennent Gallery

The highly stylized charcoal sketches and oil paintings of Madge Tennent are often compared to those of that other painter of Polynesia, Gaugin as well as those of Vincent Van Gogh. They are a bit clunkier and chunkier, to be sure, but no less artful in that the heavier strokes reflect her subject matter. Tennent [...]
Michi Itami: Artists We Love on Maui

Michi Itami: Artists We Love on Maui

A look at “Branch Vases” the ceramic work of Michi Itami evokes bamboo sections coated in slick-looking pahoe’hoe lava from a recent eruption. Itami is constantly playing with shapes in her fascinating and engrossing ceramic works. She moved to Maui only a few years ago and already has become one of the most sought-after artists [...]
Must Eat Maui: Maui Onion and Sesame Crusted Seared Ahi at Lahaina Grill

Must Eat Maui: Maui Onion and Sesame Crusted Seared Ahi at Lahaina Grill

Like Alan Wong’s ginger crusted onaga, this dish has become so classic and so in demand that the restaurant over 20 years has not dared remove it from the menu. The flavor combination is insanely perfect. High-grade ahi is lightly seared then coated with sesame seeds and maui onions. A remarkable sweet-and-sour-and cream sauce of [...]
Rooms in Hawaii for Less Than $130: Napili Bay Resort on Maui, Unit 203

Rooms in Hawaii for Less Than $130: Napili Bay Resort on Maui, Unit 203

We’ve waxed on about Napili Bay in previous posts. This low-key small condo right on the bay is perhaps one of the best accommodation bargains on the Valley Isle. The units at the Napili Bay Resort are all beachfront so you can’t beat the setting. The condos each have individual owners but rent through a [...]
Must Eat Maui: Star Noodle’s Steamed Pork Bun’s

Must Eat Maui: Star Noodle’s Steamed Pork Bun’s

Old school Chinese staple steamed pork buns get’s a totally new treatment at Maui’s now legendary Star Noodle House, the island’s answer to Momofuku Noodle Bar. The buns are brilliant white and piping hot, the pressed pork braised and then brushed with sweet and sour hoisin sauce, the shiitake mushrooms add the earth and the [...]
The Cliffs of Eternity: Waipio Rim B&B Atop the Valley of the Kings

The Cliffs of Eternity: Waipio Rim B&B Atop the Valley of the Kings

It’s nice to enough to sit on a comfortable bench. But how about a bench with a view like this? This is the front yard (or backyard) of the Waipio Rim B&B, a small B&B that sits atop the cliffs on the Hamakua Coast directly above Waipio Valley, the Valley of the Kings. At night [...]

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