Taste Of Honolulu

[1stwahine]

I have never gone to the Taste Of Honolulu. I was busy cooking at Benny's (our now closed family resturant) all these years. I'm taking MAMA tomarrow. I don't want to seem ignorant and naive but can somebody please tell me how it works. I'm serious.

Thank you,
Lynn

[kimo55]

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Taste Of Honolulu.

can somebody please tell me how it works.

dass da t'ing.
it DOESn't work. Only the guile-less go there anymore.
It is a scam to the nth degree.


there. saved you money and beeeg kine headache.
don't mention it.
you're welcome.

[beemo]

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This is only my second year, but it was pretty similar to last year. You must pay to enter (3 bucks for adults kids under 12 are free). Once inside you must purchase scrips (like cashing in in a casino). Scrips pay for everything. There are tents from 24 different restaurants and various wine and dessert vendors. There is a stage with live music and rides and the like for kids. My recommendation is to bring a couple of folding chairs, beach towel or blanket, otherwise you will have to eat standing up. Portions are small and a little pricey. Most dishes are between 6 and 9 scrips each. Expect to spend about $15 bucks per adult. Pretty fun and nice as long as it doesnt rain. Hope this is helpful.

[1stwahine]

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thanks for the your comments.

lynn

[AbsolutChaos]

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More info on Taste of Honolulu:

www.taste808.com

I'll be there on Sat. around 12:30 or 1pm...

Maybe I'll se ya there!

:-)

Shilpa

[kimo55]

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[QUOTE=AbsolutChaos]More info on Taste of Honolulu:

www.taste808.com


dat web site.
no pull up.
wot kine dat.
buggy to da max.
crash da compooter.
alllll bussup.
no boddah.

[AbsolutChaos]

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[QUOTE=kimo55]

More info on Taste of Honolulu:

www.taste808.com


dat web site.
no pull up.
wot kine dat.
buggy to da max.
crash da compooter.
alllll bussup.
no boddah.

www.taste808.com
is the official site for Easter Seals Taste of Honolulu for the past several years
It worked for me!

[1stwahine]

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www.taste808.com
is the official site for Easter Seals Taste of Honolulu for the past several years
It worked for me!

It worked for me too. Mahalo Shelpa!

[Miulang]

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[QUOTE=kimo55]

More info on Taste of Honolulu:

www.taste808.com


dat web site.
no pull up.
wot kine dat.
buggy to da max.
crash da compooter.
alllll bussup.
no boddah.

Heh heh. Maybe it's da "Macinfection" or da web browser you stay using, Kimo. Seems to be working for anybody who has Windoze!

Miulang

[1stwahine]

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Heh heh. Maybe it's da "Macinfection" or da web browser you stay using, Kimo. Seems to be working for anybody who has Windoze!

Miulang

Miu. hahaha. I was going say something but changed my mind. You know how he is. Anyway's like Andy Bumatai screams, DA KAHUNA wen get ya!

[cezanne]

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Hmmm, just wondering... why is it a rip-off? It benefits Easter Seals right? We were thinking of checking it out this weekend (for the first time). I know you have to buy scrips to sample the food after paying the $3 to get in. Does the charity get the gate receipts or the scrips?

BTW, the site works for me too (Windoze).

[kimo55]

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Hmmm, just wondering... why is it a rip-off? It benefits Easter Seals right? We were thinking of checking it out this weekend (for the first time). I know you have to buy scrips to sample the food after paying the $3 to get in. Does the charity get the gate receipts or the scrips?

BTW, the site works for me too (Windoze).

I don't support the idea of sampling what a restaurant has to offer by going to a park and eating their stuff off styrofoam plates and making more trash that clogs the landfill.
Much of the restaurant experience is sitting down and being served. after a hard day at work. and enjoying the ambiance. the setting. AT the restaurant.
You can't tell what the restaurant is like at a park. where they prep the food you eat completely outside their original kitchen.


IF I want easter seals to get my money, I will find their direct address and send them some.


I usually like to stay miles away from those damned inflated bouncy cartoon character things.

I am very familiar with these restaurants:
Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant
The Shack
Down to Earth
The Willows
Brew Moon Restaurant and Microbrewery

and if I want the other restaurants "showcased" to me, I will GO to the actual restaurants.


and I will NOT have anything to do with
Dave & Buster's

[Miulang]

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After you've been to one of these events, you really don't need to go again the next year. The same old vendors are usually in attendance. We have a big one up here in Seattle (the "Bite" of Seattle) at the Seattle Center the 4th of July weekend. Haven't been to that in about 4 years now. If we go, we usually make a beeline for the pad Thai, piroschky, the Indian dal and naan, Vietnamese bao, or the pesto salmon on a roll and for dessert, a huge dish of strawberry shortcake (strawberries from WA state). The bites up here can cost up to $5. It's usually so crowded (especially if the weather's nice) that you can't find anyplace to sit and people watch. Each little community has its own street fair throughout the summer (my neighborhood has a stock car show that's about 20 blocks long and is being held today full of restored cars) and many of the food vendors do a circuit of the street fairs, which is another reason why I don't have to go to the Bite every year.

If they're charging an admission fee, more than likely that's the part that's donated to charity.

Miulang

[AbsolutChaos]

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After volunteering to clean the Ala Wai Harbor by dredging up trash in nets for four hours this morning, I'm looking forward to Taste of Honolulu for lunch this afternoon.

I go every year just as an excuse to be social with my friends while eating. I get bored with going to restaurants with their sterile, fancy-schmancy, trendy atmospheres sometimes, and I don't mind paying a little more if part of the proceeds benefit a good cause. It's busy and crowded, but that's usually the only way to attract big sponsors to donate money. They don't donate money unless they get some publicity.

Having been involved in creating/organizing events, I respect the amount of work that it takes to put something like this together, and I enjoy supporting events that allow me to have a good time and people-watch too. :-)

Yay for food!

[kimo55]

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After you've been to one of these events, you really don't need to go again the next year.

that's one way i know whereof i speak.
I have accidentally attended these thru the years and am now burned out.

I get enuff of the good times and people-watching at busy crowded outdoor shindigs and hang with friends at da kapoiolani things often. and the north shore events.