More on the Hawai`i / Seattle connection

[Paul Ogata]

Re: More on the Hawai`i / Seattle connection

I'll drop you a line Leo!

And thanks, Miulang. I'll be sure to check those places out.

[Leo Lakio]

Re: More on the Hawai`i / Seattle connection

Leo!

I'll be in Seattle the week of Thanksgiving, performing at the Comedy Underground Fri/Sat Nov 23/24. But I get in early that week, and would love to wala'au over some coffee and pick your brain about where to get some good lau lau in your town.

You got it - check your PM's and we can figure out when and where. Looking forward to seeing you at last!

[Miulang]

Re: More on the Hawai`i / Seattle connection

Leo!

I'll be in Seattle the week of Thanksgiving, performing at the Comedy Underground Fri/Sat Nov 23/24. But I get in early that week, and would love to wala'au over some coffee and pick your brain about where to get some good lau lau in your town.

Uwajimaya in the International District has some that I think come from Hawaii if you're thinking of taking some back with you. They're sold down by the meat counter.

If you mean to go eat in a restaurant, there's Kona Kitchen (Sunday special only), Kauai Family Restaurant and way up north in Everett, Bobby's Hawaiian Kitchen (seen on the Food Network).

Miulang

[Paul Ogata]

Re: More on the Hawai`i / Seattle connection

Leo!

I'll be in Seattle the week of Thanksgiving, performing at the Comedy Underground Fri/Sat Nov 23/24. But I get in early that week, and would love to wala'au over some coffee and pick your brain about where to get some good lau lau in your town.

[jdub]

Re: More on the Hawai`i / Seattle connection

Just kind of noticed this thread. I've got a ton of ex-pat HI Kai cohorts now living in Seattle. Most moved in the early 90s, when it was still the most important city in music in the US.

Yo, Leo, if you ever make it into the watering hole The Gnarr (I think it's in the U-District), ask for my buddy Mason. He's the bartender. Be advised that he is the most awfully obnoxious Steelers fan in the known universe. We've been pals since little league baseball. He's a hoot, and can connect you with a bunch of other lunatic ex-pats like himself.

[1stwahine]

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I did. No need for pilikia. I was happy to be a resource, a facilitator - it's something I enjoy. It's honor enough to be considered knowledgeable about a community that I've come into from the outside. My ego will survive.

heheheh

Just remember, Auntie Pupule is always ready to help my Online Ohana!

Love and ALOHA

Auntie Lynn aka Auntie Pupule

[Leo Lakio]

Re: More on the Hawai`i / Seattle connection

Leo, go check your emails!!!

I did. No need for pilikia. I was happy to be a resource, a facilitator - it's something I enjoy. It's honor enough to be considered knowledgeable about a community that I've come into from the outside. My ego will survive.

[1stwahine]

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Nah - not necessary. As much as my ego would like to have been quoted (as it was in this story from a few years back), it made more sense for her to actually quote folks originally from the Islands. I'm just someone who's luckily been accepted into the community.

Leo, go check your emails!!!

Auntie Lynn

[Leo Lakio]

Re: More on the Hawai`i / Seattle connection

She should have listed you as reference and thanked you.

Nah - not necessary. As much as my ego would like to have been quoted (as it was in this story from a few years back), it made more sense for her to actually quote folks originally from the Islands. I'm just someone who's luckily been accepted into the community.

[1stwahine]

Re: More on the Hawai`i / Seattle connection

She should have listed you as reference and thanked you.

Auntie Lynn

[Leo Lakio]

From today's Seattle Times.

I spoke at length with the reporter a couple weeks ago as she was researching this story, along with several follow-up e-mails to give her additional information and answer further questions. (She e-mailed me yesterday to say that none of my quotes made it into the story, but that she used a number of my contacts and ideas for additional research.) Ms. Liu is a relatively recent transplant to Seattle, but her boyfriend is from Hawai`i - and it was through his beginning explorations into the Hawaiian community in the area that she got the story idea.