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Duck around Oahu
Green curry duck, Peking duck, duck buns...any tips on finding to-die-for duck around Oahu? I use the Noh mix and roast, serve on good buns for a fast fix at home. Mmmmm, duck...
Foodie's first time in Oahu
The food court at Don Quixote in Waipahu will let you hit yummy Korean, Vietnamese BaLe, chinese, and Dave's Ice Cream all in one meal, not to mention the sushi takeout in their impressive grocery section. Haven't tried Donkey in town yet so dont know if it has as good a food court. A nice stopping place before you head to the North Shore. true local grit!
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Dave's Ice Cream
1602 Kalakaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96826
Waikiki Cheap Eats?
I would walk right over to the awesome food courts at Ala Moana Ctr and Shirokiya. And don't miss Dave's ice cream on the ground floor at Sears. You could get sacks of take out and dine on the beach.
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Shirokiya
1450 Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96814
Nasty Little Treats
This is the most entertaining thread. Here's my nasty food vice, a common drinks snack in Japan is very tiny sardines gutted but dried with head-on, then'candied' in a sugar-sake-soy sauce so that they are fishy-sweet-salty-crunchy. You munch them whole, they are maybe an inch long. So yummy but many are averse to eating anything that is looking back at you. I also love salmon heads but they are not acceptable to serve in America in mixed company.
Also, the deli fat on bread thing is from our European forebears, in Germany a good deli platter features slices of both fat and lean ham. Whether you eat bread with butter, schmaltz, or sliced ham fat, it's really the same thing. A typical serving would be one slice of dense, whole grain bread with one slice of fat meat for lubrication and flavor. Not so strange after all, anyone ever eat a bacon sandwich?
How to eat umeboshi?
Think of umeboshi as the apple cider vinegar cure-all of Japan, it's an acquired taste, and USED to be po'folks food. You would get a whole lunchbox of rice with one umeboshi in the middle, and it's powerful enough to flavor the whole meal, one bit of plum to each mouthful of rice. Add hot tea and you're back to work. Also its a representation of the Japanese flag, a very patriotic lunch.
Sushi: Fingers or Chopsticks?
Sushi pushes so many buttons...foodie snobbery, xenophobia, wasabi-machisimo, and chopstick neurosis to name a few; for heaven's sake it's just a rice sandwich, and it can as simple as PBJ or as over-the-top as a Kobe burger. You don't want to know the indigestion-producing attention we got here in the middle West by grilling and serving fish WITH THE HEADS STILL ON. (Never again, except inside with the shades pulled down.)
Sushi: Fingers or Chopsticks?
No one snickers when the round-eyes eat chinese food with forks...so use whatever implement is comfortable for you. Personally I prefer wooden or plastic ohashi because I don't like the hardness of metal chopsticks. I enjoy eating indian and thai curries with a spoon, but the restaurants in my area cater to American sensibilities and offer only forks, so I end up stealing a serving spoon. Never tried chopsticks on a soupy thai curry, that would be a challenge.
Do waiters really want me to order coffee/dessert?
Stop charging extortionate prices for a simple beverage. I didn't come to your joint to savor the Pepsi. Did you squeeze that OJ? Did you hand-blend that cola syrup with seltzer? No? then why charge $1 or more for something that costs 99 cents a liter and you only had to crack the lid and pour? A paper cup and Ice may cost a nickel. So we're up to 20 cents cost for the pop, is 400% profit enough for you? Apparently not! and the Tea rant is absurd. Like fancy coffee drinks don't require a whole counter-ful of coffeemakers, syrups and garnishes? The problem is, Americans can't make a simple cup of tea because they can't deliver the water hot enough. All tea drinkers want is really hot water and a teabag.
The waiter was torn between moving you out and getting raked for not mouthing the mandatory coffee-dessert-drink offer. Never eat at an Applebees, the sales script is just too intrusive on your meal.
