Ala Moana / Kakaako

Pho Bistro 2! Perfection

My wife Phuong and I are always on the lookout for a good bowl of Pho.  Our favorite is Bac Nam but I believe we found a new contender for our favorite, and its name is Pho Bistro 2! 
They’re located on Kalakaua Avenue (actually more off of Fern Street, more on this later) just Mauka of [...]


The Old Spaghetti Factory

As I had alluded to in the past, a group of us were doing the GREAT ALOHA RUN (hereafter to be referred to as the GAR)  I had read and heard that before a run, it is good to load up on carbs a few days beforehand.  Things like pasta would be ideal to eat!
The GAR [...]


Jamba Juice’s Acai Bowl (the poor man’s version as compared to Blue Hawaii)

My wife Bernedette and I were in the Pearl City area doing some errands and we were both super hungry but the problem was that we were supposed to eat dinner in a couple of hours.  TWO HOURS!??  That was like FOREVER away, but not so far away time-wise that we could go and eat a huge [...]


Panya, so fun ya? Okay that doesn’t even rhyme worth a dime.

My wife Ingrid’s Uncle and Aunt are in town visiting for a couple of weeks and they along with Ingrid’s mom had decided to go to First Friday in downtown to check out the art scene.  They got there around 5:30pm but Ingrid and I decided to meet up with them at bit later.  That’s how it was [...]


Pho Mai

It was a Friday night and my wife Wanda and I were on our way to see “The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button”, but we only had 35 minutes before the movie started!  We didn’t want to settle for theater food and we didn’t want fast food so we were in a bit of a dilemma.  As [...]