didn't Alicia's burn down last year?
Did they rebuilld?
We used to eat at Helena's in Kalihi back in the day (before bishop estate kicked them out) and the original Highway Inn in waipahu by the drug dealers hangout. Best food always seem in the sketchy of places with little seating kind of like Alicia's where's there's little if no parking. One of my workers gives me balls of Limu Kohu and inamona she used to get from Alicia's.
That's all you need, some fine manauea, limu kohu, inamona and you can turn the worse fish into the best poke. We did it with the boney Awa(milkfish) we caught paipai netting in front of our beach house couldn't afford anything else. Kind of like sucking the meat of a lomi opelu skin.
Ft Ruger used to have a popup in the Pioneer Plaza food court as did Tanioka's but it was seasonal. $5 for one of those paper pill cups containing 4-8 pieces of fish.
We used to get our poke from Tanioka's when they were unknown and had a little store next to Gems in Waipahu but now they went and got all Sig Zane (like highway inn) and have a security guard to control the crowds at their Waipahu store across from where the old Wigwam and Ben Franklin used to be.
Too much pilikia to shop there now unless you can catch them between the rushes but who wants to drive through waipahu after they put in the rail line. Same with crowds at Liliha Bakery on Nimitz and Rainbows.
couple of hole in wall diamonds near me include:
For meat
Rays
Guava Smoked
Kau Kau Grill
Kanak Attack
Japanese
Ethels
Kikuya
Mitch's
my brother was gifted some maunawili poi friday so his wife made him this meal to go with it.
never heard of maunawili poi.
been eating allot more hanalei poi these days seems sweeter than the rest.