-
Best Restaurants to Eat at in Honolulu: Tonkatsu Ginza Bairin
Address: 255 Beach Walk, Honolulu, HI 96815 Tonkatsu Ginza Bairin is one of my favorite tonkatsu restaurants in Hawaii. While it is not as good as the Michelin-starred tonkatsu restaurant in Japan, Tonkatsu Hasegawa, it is still really good (especially for Hawaii). Normally when I go to Ginza Bairin, I get either the katsu curry…
-
Best TV Shows to Watch on Paramount Plus: Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O follows a pretty similar pattern to your typical CBS drama show; the team finds a crime at the beginning, they investigate it, they find a new lead, and they solve it by the end (all while having character development and a main story line that runs through all the episodes). Still, this is…
-
Best Restaurants to Eat at in Honolulu: Junpuu
Address: 1010 S King St #108, Honolulu, HI 96814 Junpuu is a ramen restaurant in Hawaii that I really enjoy; although their ramen is good, my favorite dish is actually their char siu quesadilla. I have not really had this dish anywhere else (and unfortunately, I could not find any good picture of it online),…
-
Best Foods to Eat in Tokyo: Miyazaki Mango
If you go to enough grocery stores in Japan, you are bound to see the incredible fruit selection that Japan has. Unlike in the US and other countries around the world, most fruits in Japan are considered luxury/gift items. This includes fruits such as strawberries, peaches, melons, mangoes, etc; if you buy the top of…
-
Best Golf Courses in Honolulu: Kapolei Golf Course
In Honolulu now, golf courses are just starting to reopen. Most of the courses reopened on May 1st, although there are some new restrictions in place. Honolulu has some great golf courses, although there is a huge difference in price between whether you are a Hawaii resident or not. Kapolei Golf Course is one of…
-
Best Resturants to Eat at in Honolulu: Tamura’s
Tamuras Fine Wine is actually a wine/alcohol shop (if you couldn’t already tell from the name), but I go there for the poke. I had always known where Tamuras was, but before my friend brought me to it a couple of years ago, I had no idea that they even sold poke. At all of…
-
Best Restaurants to Eat at in Honolulu: Uncle Clay’s House of Pure Aloha
Shave ice is a classic Hawaiian dessert. Since it is always so hot in Hawaii, you can eat shave ice year around. While the most famous place for shave ice in Hawaii is probably Matsumoto’s, it is really far from downtown. Furthermore, there are a couple of shave ice places that I prefer to Matsumoto’s.…
-
Top 15 Cities To Visit: No. 12 Honolulu, Hawaii
This is my own personal list of my 15 favorite cities in the world to visit. I have ranked them in 10 categories on a scale of 1-10: local cuisine, non-local food, public transportation, safety, scenery/beauty, history, price, cleanliness, tourist friendly, and walkability. These are my own personal opinions, and I am sure that many…