Bleary eyed from jetlag, I needed an iced doppio ASAP so I drove to Starbucks at the Prince Kuhio Mall and stood in line. I took my grande and sat outside facing an incredibly clear, blue-skyed morning with a picture-postcard view of Mauna Kea. I took a a deep breath and took it all in: the warm weather, local people sitting next to me talking story, birds chirping and light tradewinds blowing. Hard to believe a week ago I was in Paris, Germany, Amsterdam and frigid NYC. As amazing as those places are. Hilo is just as amazing. I was home.
Of course, I needed to get lunch so I bopped on by to Kawamoto's Okazu-ya.
Surprisingly there was no long line, so I had to figure out quickly what I wanted.
Hmmm... hash, shoyu pork, Korean chicken wings, nori chicken, cone sushi, spam musubi, maki sushi, plain musubi, shoyu chicken, chicken long rice (da shoyu kine), noodles.... etc!
two kinds of fish (mahi, ono) prepared two different ways (breaded, tempura), shrimp tempura, pork tofu, sweet potato tempura, nishime.
Sorry I don't have a pic of my plate but I think I was too excited to eat it I forgot to photograph it. Next time. By the way the ono wuz ono!
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