I Miss My Local Food!

[oggboy]

Re: I Miss My Local Food!

Tiger Bear,

Flight Time Between Hawaii And The U.s. Mainland Are 5-6 Plus
Hours.

Hawaiian Communities In The West Coast, Especially In Las Vegas

Have Sky Rocketed..... Do To The Cheap Housing Cost And Jobs

Available......

The Hawaiian Communities On The Mainland Can Be Found On Your Web................

Oggboy..........

[oggboy]

Re: I Miss My Local Food!

Oh Sorry,

That Is L&l Drive In..............oggboy

[Tiger Beer]

Re: I Miss My Local Food!

Later I might do a search for the largest Hawaiian communities in the mainland cities.. I'm curious.

[Miulang]

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Interesting about Seattle being the most overrated city. I wonder how many Hawaiians are living in and around Las Vegas.

My girlfriend lives in Vegas.. and when I've visited here.. I've seen a few Hawaiian restaurants like L&M (I think its called?) and others. Plus constant new housing at affordable prices around Las Vegas.

Lotsa expats living in LV now...we expats fondly refer to LV as the "9th Hawaiian island". It's cheaper for most of us to fly to LV than it is to fly to Hawai'i to get our Hawaiian fix.

The restaurant you're thinking of is L&L. It's a chain that started in Hawai'i and that now has branches all over the US, like NYC, Boston, Seattle, and places in between.

I'm sure if your girlfriend has lived in LV for any length of time that she knows about the Ho'olaulea (big party) that the city of Las Vegas and the Hawaiian club there put on every Sept. (this year it'll be on the 17th and 18th @ Alondra Park). At least one other person who haunts this board and I will be in LV for this and for another luau the night before that will be held for another Hawaiian community forum (www.alohaworld.com). Our luau is timed so some of us who can't get enough Hawaiian fun and food Friday night can also go to the city's party the next day.

Does your girlfriend know about the restaurants in the California Hotel? They serve "local" (i.e. Hawaiian) food there. Many people from Hawai'i, when they visit LV from the islands, stay downtown and not on the strip. Everything's a little more convenient downtown and I've heard that the slots are "looser" downtown than on the strip.

Miulang

[U'ilani]

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For the 2nd year now, Seattle has been rated by Forbes Mag as the most overpriced city. It's finally on the economic rebound from the dot com bust with unemployment now just under 5%. Yet, with housing prices skyrocketing, high property taxes (I pay nearly $6000 a year), and wages that don't keep pace with the cost of living, it's very difficult for younger folks to make it here. Sounds familiar, huh?

Still, the moderate climate, the lakes, the trees, and the decent schools keep me here. I still miss Hawaii and the local food, though. I'm going home for vacation next month and will be visiting Liliha Bakery and Sekiya's the day I arrive, then heading for the shave ice place at that clothing store in Kailua just before I buy a warm bag of boiled peanuts. Yummy!

[Miulang]

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For the 2nd year now, Seattle has been rated by Forbes Mag as the most overpriced city. It's finally on the economic rebound from the dot com bust with unemployment now just under 5%. Yet, with housing prices skyrocketing, high property taxes (I pay nearly $6000 a year), and wages that don't keep pace with the cost of living, it's very difficult for younger folks to make it here. Sounds familiar, huh?

Still, the moderate climate, the lakes, the trees, and the decent schools keep me here. I still miss Hawaii and the local food, though. I'm going home for vacation next month and will be visiting Liliha Bakery and Sekiya's the day I arrive, then heading for the shave ice place at that clothing store in Kailua just before I buy a warm bag of boiled peanuts. Yummy!

Hui U'ilani! You live in the northend of Seattle, yeah? If you ever want to go holoholo to Duvall, there's a really good little restaurant over there called Lei's Family Restaurant. It's right in the center of Duvall on the main street(such as it is, since downtown Duvall has like only 2 or 3 buildings), but they have local grinds, including poke on the weekends! We went the first weekend they were open a couple of months ago. They hadn't started offering their plate lunches yet. Benny (one of the owners) says if you're a local and you stop by and you don't see what you want on the menu, ask and they can probably whip up something for you. They do have onolicious kalua pork.

Have fun in Hawai'i. Have a cocopuff for me.

Miulang

P.S. You must have one biiiiiig hale to pay that much for taxes! My property tax on a 1,000 sf condo is only about $1,200, and I live within the Seattle City limits!

[Tiger Beer]

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Well, Seattle being what it is.. and I just don't have the real strong interest.. probably won't end up moving/living there. Now LV on the other hand is a second-hand remote possibility SECOND to Honolulu of course

Regarding my gf.. she's a filipina.. she doesn't know much about Hawaiian culture as much as she knows about philippines culture.. yet SO MANY filipinos have lived or were raised in hawaii (who later moved to the mainland).. that well.. second-hand info and all.

[Miulang]

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Well, Seattle being what it is.. and I just don't have the real strong interest.. probably won't end up moving/living there. Now LV on the other hand is a second-hand remote possibility SECOND to Honolulu of course

Regarding my gf.. she's a filipina.. she doesn't know much about Hawaiian culture as much as she knows about philippines culture.. yet SO MANY filipinos have lived or were raised in hawaii (who later moved to the mainland).. that well.. second-hand info and all.

No, what you just said is true; many filipinos who emigrated from the Philippines did start out in Hawai'i, but have since moved up here for the economic opportunities, which are much greater than in Hawai'i (plus it's cheaper). Many of the Filipino families in Hawai'i live with multiple families in a house that is too small simply because they try to pool their resources to make life easier for their kids. The Filipino families I know are some of the hardest working and most industrious I have ever known. And many of their 2nd and 3rd generation kids are more patriotic than kids whose families have been American for many generations. I think many of the Filipino families living in LV have members who work in the casinos, which can be a fairly lucrative business compared to the kinds of hospitality jobs they usually work at in Hawai'i.

Miulang

P.S. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if that Ho'olaulea in Alondra Park had some filipino booths with food (lumpia, pancit, adobo, longanisa, etc.) The Filipinos are a very important part of Hawai'i. I think they're celebrating their centennial of arriving in Hawai'i this month.

[U'ilani]

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Miulang: I actually live in an exurb of Seattle--Sammamish Plateau, near Redmond. Everyone around us is rich and drives SUVs except us, lol. We wanted to be in a better school district and live in a low-crime city. In our last house (in north Seattle), we had a drive-by shooting on our street, about 6 Level 3 sex offenders nearby, and school test scores that were under 60% in reading and writing.

I still gotta try out that Kauai Family Restaurant in Seattle some time.

Yup, I'll have a dozen cocopuffs for you.

[lurkah]

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I still gotta try out that Kauai Family Restaurant in Seattle some time.

IMHO, although the food is ono there, the portions are small and a bit spendy too for what you end up getting. The serving container for the ahi poke reminded me of a specimen cup.

[Miulang]

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Miulang: I actually live in an exurb of Seattle--Sammamish Plateau, near Redmond. Everyone around us is rich and drives SUVs except us, lol. We wanted to be in a better school district and live in a low-crime city. In our last house (in north Seattle), we had a drive-by shooting on our street, about 6 Level 3 sex offenders nearby, and school test scores that were under 60% in reading and writing.

I still gotta try out that Kauai Family Restaurant in Seattle some time.

Yup, I'll have a dozen cocopuffs for you.

You're closer to Duvall than me, so better you go take one car ride up to Duvall (right before Woodinville on the Woodinville-Duvall Rd. headed north) I think you would be happier with the food at Lei's Family Restaurant (especially the quantity!) than Kauai Family restaurant. The Kauai Family Restaurant got itself cleaned up about a year ago; it's not grimy and the last time I was there for lunch (couple of weeks ago), the service was wikiwiki compared to every other time I've been there. They're doing a booming business with their cakes (they have a sort of bakery next door). Pieces of their cakes (lilikoi, haupia, guava, rainbow, chantilly, dobash) are selling at Uwajimaya in Seattle and some of the other Hawaiian type places. You can even order whole cakes to go now.

Miulang

[lurkah]

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The Kauai Family Restaurant got itself cleaned up about a year ago; it's not grimy and the last time I was there for lunch (couple of weeks ago), the service was wikiwiki compared to every other time I've been there.

Sounds like quite an improvement, but have they also increased the size of their portions to match the size of their prices?

They're doing a booming business with their cakes (they have a sort of bakery next door). Pieces of their cakes (lilikoi, haupia, guava, rainbow, chantilly, dobash) are selling at Uwajimaya in Seattle and some of the other Hawaiian type places. You can even order whole cakes to go now.

Dobash? Did you say Dobash? Eh tita, hacome you nevah tell me about dis befo?!

[Miulang]

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Sounds like quite an improvement, but have they also increased the size of their portions to match the size of their prices?

Dobash? Did you say Dobash? Eh tita, hacome you nevah tell me about dis befo?!

I dunno. I always thought they gave me enough to fill my opu, but you right, hardly eva get enough foa one doggie bag (or maybe because da food so onolicious das why no moa extra to take home?). Now if you go someplace like Kona Kitchen in Seattle up by where I live (Yuji Okumoto, who was in a couple of da Karate Kid movies owns da place), dat's someplace you would like if you like plenty ono grinds. Da odda night we hele ova dere and I had da huli chicken dinner plate. Had one green salad, broccoli, carrots, TWO scoops mac salad (usually get 2 scoop rice + 1 scoop mac salad, but I neva like da rice) and 1/2 of one whole chicken, all foa $8.95. Had so much kaukau, I oni could eat half da chicken!

As for da dobash cake, you neva wen ask me if I knew someplace in Seattle dat wen go make Dobash cake! So now you know!

Miulang

P.S. I tink Bobbie's in Everett moa expensive and dey get kinda manini portions too.

[lurkah]

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Now if you go someplace like Kona Kitchen in Seattle up by where I live (Yuji Okumoto, who was in a couple of da Karate Kid movies owns da place), dat's someplace you would like if you like plenty ono grinds.

Been there, done that. I think was maybe just a few months after Kona Kitchen first opened. Had da hamburger steak dinner. Was ono. Nice guy, Yuji. Down to earth, and we wen talk story lilibit. Totally da opposite of da pilau character he played in Karate Kid II.

I never been to Bobby's yet. Too far up north!