Articles
Selections from 2024:
How Fireworks are Made in Nagaoka, Japan (Hana Hou)
How Shaved Ice Took Over the Dessert Menu (NYT T Magazine)
Bidding Up: You name it, Oahu Auctions has sold it (Hana Hou)
Indigenous Chefs from Hawai‘i to New Zealand to Taiwan (Hana Hou)
University of Hawai‘i's "World-Changing" Wayfinding System (Hana Hou)
The Ultimate Guide to Chinese Food (Honolulu Magazine)
Honolulu's 38 Essential Restaurants (Eater)
2023:
How the Humble Sheet Cake Became Top Tier (NYT T Magazine)
Hawai‘i's Nostalgia is Key to Rebuilding Lahaina (The Atlantic)
The Way Back After the Fire: "We Got It" (Honolulu Magazine)
Clarissa Wei Knows All Too Well That Food Is Political (Eater)
American Sake (Bon Appetit)
Aloha to Aloha Stadium (Hana Hou)
Can Hawai‘i's Oldest Japanese Buddhist Temples Be Saved? (Preservation)
A Hawai‘i Shop Turning Invasive Trees into Surfboards (NYT T Magazine)
The Pastry Chefs Defining Restaurant Dessert Right Now (Eater)
Honolulu's Mini Parks (Hana Hou)
The Call of the Mountain: A Life Apart on Palehua (Hana Hou)
The Ossipoff Cabins (Hana Hou)
2022:
Chef Simileoluwa Adebajo's Nigerian Comfort Food in San Francisco (EatingWell)
Palolo Zen Center (Hana Hou)
Honolulu's Best Dive Bars (Honolulu Magazine)
Best New Restaurant: Nami Kaze (Eater)
The People Who Upholster the Booths and Carve the Wood Where You Eat (Honolulu Magazine)
2021:
San Francisco's Best Cioppino (WSJ)
Hunting Axis Deer on Lāna‘i (Hana Hou)
Maui's secret and wonderful public pools (Hana Hou)
Hawai‘i's New General Store: 7-Eleven (Honolulu Magazine)
If You Can Only Plant One Tree, Make it an Urban One (Honolulu Magazine)
Will the Pandemic Fix Hawaii? (Outside)
More Archives:
The Wall Street Journal
Hawaii's Treasured Time Warp Hotels
Reading and Retreating: My Brilliant Friend
Reading and Retreating: Anne of Green Gables
Reading and Retreating: The Joy Luck Club
Eater
The Best Gas Station Food is in Hawai‘i
Food and Wine
Sheldon Simeon: From a Hawaii Point of View
Washington Post
EatingWell
Hana Hou
Earl Kawa‘a defines "Hawaiian" as anyone born and raised in Hawai‘i.
Honolulu Magazine
- The Folks You Meet at Zippy's
- Bananas don't grow on trees. The plant is actually a giant herb.
- Ed Kenney says, "Fuck, I don't think we made a difference."
- Why McDonald's Hawaii has the only fried apple pies in the country: "It's not so simple you can do fried pies again."
- Kunoa’s cattle are really a means to an end, like Sun Yet-sen's brother's more than a century ago.
- Hawaii sells. But for his first restaurant in Tokyo, Andrew Le is resisting Hawaii-fication.
- Farmed ‘Ahi: The Impossible Dream?
- Introvert's guide to dining in Honolulu
Everything Guides to:
Hawaii Business
How a Kalihi Noodle Factory Fueled America's Ramen Boom
Flux