Doughnuts!

Sampled multiple flavors of doughnuts (the flavor's in the frosting) from Regal Bakery. Among the selections were chocolate, double chocolate, strawberry, blueberry, orange, coconut, vanilla, mint white chocolate, maple nut, and a basic glazed.

'Lokomaika‘i for Japan' at the Prince

At the Prince Resorts Hawaii's “Lokomaika‘i for Japan” event to benefit Red Cross relief efforts in Japan, Hawaii Prince Hotel’s Hakone restaurant offered up beautiful nigiri sets of ahi, ebi, hamachi, spicy ahi and California roll.

Bliss Lau homecoming

At The Waikiki EDITION Lobby Bar, Bliss Lau was auditioning dancers for her fashion presentation and showed me one of the leather designs she created for herself.

Liliha snail

Photographed an African snail that was late to hide away this morning. It was crawling around, then I fed it a small leaf. When I was living in Kailua, snails and slugs at our house liked to eat the intoxicating angel's trumpet flowers that fell on the ground.

Kaiseki drama at Nanzan GiroGiro

At the new kaiseki restaurant Nanzan GiroGiro, offering dinner as theatrical experience, a seven-course meal started with this green bean chawanmushi with uni and bonito gelee with dab of wasabi. It was my second favorite dish. My favorite wasn't photographed because I devoured it too fast. It was smoky grilled eggplant gelee in a crunchy sauce of pulverized dried shrimp frequently used in Chinese cooking, topped with okra. My review.