Take a bao now

BREAKING NEWS: Double click on thumbnails below to see a picture gallery and read about this morning’s Mangoes at the Moana event: [Show as slideshow] Tomorrow: Mangoes at YOUR house. ON TO CHINATOWN: In the past year or so, my trips to Chinatown have been quick...

If I ran a restaurant . . .

Tomorrow: Take a bao. Breakfasting with some former Advertiser colleagues at Big City Diner earlier this week, I was happy to learn that I could order from the keiki menu for just a $1 charge. As the portions at this local food haven are in keeping with the widely...

Permission to eat cupcakes, please!

Tomorrow: If I ran a restaurant . . . Finally got to drop by the new cupcake shop opened by my friends Kawehi Haug and Nick Gervais, Let Them Eat Cupcakes, at 35 S. Beretania in the old Mix Cafe location (park in the inexpensive underground city lot off Beretania...

The plague of the plastic containers

Tomorrow : What I don’t understand. . . APOLOGIES! Grandchild exception: My first grandchild is in town from Mainland and we’ve been hanging with “the kids” and their kid. Forgot all about blog in my happiness! Now, on to plastic containers....

Digging into the strata

Tomorrow: The plague of the plastic containers. I’m not just a foodie, I’m a cookie (one who just loves cooking). And for a cookie, can there be a greater compliment than someone chasing you down for a recipe? Cooking for volunteers at the Friends of the...