Clearing Out the Memory Card - Revisits to Ono Seafood (Kapahulu) and Tanioka's (Waipahu) and Jiaozi for Dinner (of course)

Just a quick post for tonight!

During our last full day back "home"; we headed out to do some shopping, you know omiyage stuffs. We also went to Foodland Farms in Ala Moana Center and of course ogling the Park Lane Condos. I made the Missus promise if we ever hit it big in the lottery (though it would have to be pretty big), we'd get a place there!

As for grindz; well, it was a rerun of places we posted on many times before. We'd already hit up Fresh Catch, but the Missus was really missing Her favorite poke stop, so we had to go to Ono Seafood. And, I can say, that after devouring the wasabi poke on brown rice; it's still Her favorite.

Ono Seafood
747 Kapahulu Ave.Apt 4
Honolulu, HI 96816

We made a few more stops; then headed back to Ewa Beach....but of course, I had to stop at Tanioka's for our last poke fix.

We got the Hot Alae and the Ahi Limu bowl and ate it when we got back to my In-Laws.

Tanioka's Seafood and Catering
94-903 Farrington Hwy
Waipahu, HI 96797 

Regardless of what the folks who love those "Chi-poke" places in San Diego say.....there's nothing even close to what we have back home.

As is the family tradition my MIL made jiaozi for our last dinner together.

We ate way too much!

And then the next day; after a light breakfast, it was time to leave.....for now.

Though a part of me will always stay here and I'll never forget where I'm from. As the years go by; I've gained a greater appreciation for this special place.

I still shake my head when I think; how the heck this poor kid from Kaimuki, who never left the state of Hawaii until the age of thirty, took a consulting job from a Mainland Firm a few years later. On the way to his first gig in Fort Smith, Arkansas he met his future wife on the first leg of that flight from HNL to LA. Life is funny that way, huh?

Thanks for stopping by!

Comments

[Soo]

Sounds like a great life. You have done alot.

[Kirk]

Life's been great Soo......

[Junichi]

It's Raw is probably the best in town for poke nowadays. One of my friends met her future husband on a flight too!

[kat]

great post! poke in hawaii is the best!

[Cathy]

This is one of your romantic posts. I like these.

[Sandy]

How cute - I didn't know that you met the Missus on a flight! I need to go back to Hawaii to try these poke places. Even the poke from Foodland in Hawaii is good.

[Kirk]

I still haven't gotten around to checking out it's raw Junichi! It's been on my list for a while....I better get on the ball!

Yes it is Kat! Yes it is!

I'm glad you enjoyed it Cathy!

I'm glad you thought so Sandy! These days it depends on which Foodland. I saw fish treated with Carbon Monoxide in several Foodland....though not the one's I used to go to in town. Hope you get a chance for a revisit soon!

[Christina C]

I can only eat poke on the islands. It's the first thing I get after I land, well maybe after my wine. Lol.

[RedDevil]

Nice post! Got me missing Hawaii and I’m not even from there!

[Kirk]

I am probably just hard-headed Christina and would like to believe that a place can make good poke here where the focus is just not a fad, concept, and making $$$. Our basic first stop when we get back home is to grab poke too!

Lol RD! It's time to schedule that trip!

[James]

I have yet to find a poke I like as much as the ones at Foodland in Kaimuki or Masa & Joyce in Kaneohe.

[Kirk]

Foodland Market City James! My 'hood! I went to Kaimuki High School.....good to know the fish department there is still making good poke!