I love Ted’s pie, haven’t had it for years. I guess I won’t ever now

So many local businesses in Hawaii have been closing over the years. I saw Maruki-Tei, a take out spot in windward mall, was closing down and it got me thinking about all the places and things that are no longer around.

What business do you miss most or wish you could go back to one more time? Im talking childhood spots or just places that bring back good memories.

Hey [r/Hawaii](r/Hawaii)!

Are you tired of playing WoW alone at typical HST hours, without a group of friends to play with?

<Island Time> is a new WoW: Forever community built for players local to, of, or from the ʻaina - and honestly anyone whose playtime lines up with ours. If you find yourself logging in at 8pm HST, you're in the right spot.

About Us

• Ruleset: PvE
• Faction: Alliance
• Vibe: we strive to become a fun, social, and supportive community.
  • 30+ Discord members strong so far, and the game isn't even out yet!
  • Mix of WoW veterans, new, and returning players.
  • LGBTQI+ Friendly.
• Play Times: Varies, but most of us are on during prime time / late night HST hours.
• How This Started: A month ago, I posted this reddit post which got some attention! Since then, we formed a Discord community, hosted some polls to organize ourselves, and here we are almost one week away from game launch!

Even if you're committed to another guild on the same faction & ruleset, we welcome you to join our Discord and participate in our community as in-game Discord integration will make it easy for us to group and communicate with one another.

Giveaway

• To celebrate the beginning of this community, we're giving away a couple of WoW: Forever Invite-A-Friend Launch Codes.
• To participate, join us on Discord and click Enter Giveaway in the #giveaways channel.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Azeroth next week at launch! Lok'tar Ogar! I mean, FOR THE ALLIANCE!

EDIT: If folks are interested in leading or organizing a Horde counterpart on the PvE ruleset, please message me on Discord. We can try to accommodate both factions in our community!

Discord: Jonobocha

On a recent trip to NYC, the Gramercy Park area. Almost the cost of 2 cans on sale at Longs.

View of the full moon above Waikīkī from the ocean

I am an Immigrant and planning to go to college here in Hawaii be it a University or CC online class (I am working full time atm) . I don't know how to start. I want a Uni or CC that I can afford financially or offer a scholarship to support me. Can you please share your Journey especially for the Education Majors since I am planning to take a education major.

While cleaning house I found this in my father's old things. It was folded up in a 30+ year old wallet. Obviously time has taken its toll on it but I would be interested to see if there is any value in it. I assume it would only be of interest to some kind of antique dealer or collector but does anyone have any ideas where I could this to get appraised or looked at?

The JDM Hawaii dealership on King St used to have a huge inventory of JDM and kei vehicles now their lot is empty and their website has like 4 vehicles on island at most (the rest listed are not on island) I drive by and the place is empty.

I've heard some drama between them and JDM Imports have existed apparently but can a brother be nosey and ask for some tea if anyone knows it?

Reminder to your ballots in as soon as possible!

Remember all ballots must arrive by the deadline on November 3rd not just postmarked.

Candidate voter guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hawaii/comments/1xemfhq/hawai%CA%BBi_2026_progressive_candidate_voter_guide/

Amendments voter guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hawaii/comments/1xeo181/hawai%CA%BBi_2026_constitutional_charter_amendments/

Howzit, those on the westside is it just me or is the early morning commute to town gotten worse over the last month? I would leave Makaha 0445-0500 roughly every morning for years and get sand island in about 50 mins to an hour. Now I leave a lil earlier seems get traffic building Maili slow thru Nanakuli then the usual jam up on freeway now takes me hour 15 hour 20min. If get accident I understand. Did the city adjust the stop lights? An extra 40,000 people move westside? I just seeing if anyone else noticed or if im just losing it.

Mahalo

I am applying for a data-entry clerk position and was wondering about office environment, pay, and how the hiring process works.

I have experience in a high paced office environment and data entry.

Thank you!

Anyone who recently interviewed for city and county EMS know when you should expect to hear back? It’s been almost one month since my interview.

Thanks.

Aloha everyone! I’m wondering if anyone has submitted a sabbatical proposal to the Hawaii DOE and had it accepted. If so, would you mind sharing what you did for your sabbatical and what your proposal was about? Any information you would mind sharing would be greatly helpful.

Feel free to share here if you’re comfortable, or send me a direct message if you’d prefer to keep it private. I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences and getting some ideas. Mahalo!

Loco moco: Hawaiian plate lunch dish

Ono Pono: Closed UH Manoa eatery

I'm a linguistics grad. I grew up on Oahu, studied language through UHM's Interdisciplinary Studies Department, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Sociolinguistics in 2000-merfa-merr. 👵 So I have SOME context for saying the following:

Reading these aloud to myself, with no particular point to make or axe to grind... the vowels hit me differently. I hear [oʊ] with a very short but fairly distinct horseshoe u for every O in loco moco, but they're far more pure [o]s in Ono Pono (RIP -- never should've printed that quote from your publicly-identifying-as-an employee in Ka Leo, saying that all the unhoused are good for is collecting recycling - for real, look that Sith up... k den, digression over).

I THINK that this stems from the fact that (ʻ)Ono Pono is purely ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, meaning that it doesn't receive the diphthong that Americanized words and vowel sounds do. With the plate lunch, besides ubiquity (leading it to be further influenced by the superstrata language of English), the Cs in loco moco betray BOTH words' linguistic roots as decidedly NOT Hawaiian.

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Whatchoo tink? How you say dese?

🤙 Mahalo fo yo toughts!

Saw this on the way to my car post work in chinatown. Just wanted to share. K.....goodnight​​.

Hi! My name is Josh, and I'm someone that loves organizing! I have been facilitating events under our group, Pacific Tabletop Network!

We are a Honolulu-based tabletop board game meetup group. Our goal is to connect people through community and create a genuinely fun gaming environment for all backgrounds and cultures. All of our events are free or low cost & offer an inclusive space for adults to socialize and meet each other on island.

My focus is to offer a light activity where people can network, socialize, and have fun, with tabletop games as their theme. We typically meet Monday - Thursday evenings, with each event averaging an attendance of 16+ players! We are on Meetup, Instagram, and a website: PacificTabletop .Net

A frequent question that is asked is what games we play, who we are for, and our common demographics.

Our event tends to focus on light-medium complexity games that can play with 4+ players and within an hour. We try to prioritize the socialization aspect to make our venues more welcoming to someone with minimal tabletop experience. Our age average is mid 30s, but we preface that we are not a 21+ group. Our events have had children in the past accompanied by guardians.

Some often played games include Catan, Splendor, Ticket to ride, Code names, Blood on the clock tower, Coup, Betrayal, Dice Throne, King of Tokyo, ETC.

Our group frequents collaborations and partnerships with other people on island, so if these sort of games aren't to your liking, I'd be more than happy to assist with any questions you may have, or helping you get connected :)

Just got a hotel job near the Kalakaua statue between Kuhio & Kalakaua Ave and I just found out they don’t have employee parking (guess I picked the wrong hotel to work at lol). Was wondering where everyone else parks or what the rates were for people who pay monthly for parking structures. I only work 3 days a week on weekends so hopefully trying to not spend a fortune on parking.

Hey guys and gals,

Here's a fun project I did!

To make a short story long, a couple years ago I decided to see if anyone had ever made a model kit of an Oceanic canoe, because my older daughter was big into Moana and I wanted a toy for her that would also look neat around the house (I had moved recently and hadn't gotten around to setting up the woodshop, so I wasn't making anything bespoke). It seems the answer is "sorta": a Hawaiian company called Anekona produced a line of model canoe kits for the tourist and overseas Hawaiiana market in the '60s, when it was considered extremely correct to collect vaguely Polynesoid ephemera while listening to Getz/Gilberto and eating salad in Jello form (they were so close to having the good life completely figured out!). Anekona's other major product was a crude wooden "Hawaiian checkers" set, which I'm sure ruined its share of midcentury Christmas mornings.

Anyway, these kits are still extremely common on eBay and Etsy - I think I got mine for like $40, which, adjusted for inflation, cannot be too different than what one of these sold for originally. They must have made a ton of them.

When I got it, I built it to the included instructions, such as they were.

I added the red stripe myself, because even then I could tell it wasn't going to look like much without at least *some* visual contrast. The results, though, were still pretty underwhelming, even as a toy - it managed to be both crude *and* flimsy.

It didn't take long for it to suffer the fate of any flimsy toy in a house full of children. Pretty soon, it was just kinda floating around the house, looking bad, sail half unattached and dangling. I kept almost throwing it away due to its persistent failures in joy-enkindling, but I was never quite able to. Then a few weeks back, we got a new hutch, and, wanting to fill it with some appropriate curios, I decided that I might as well take the opportunity to improve the canoe rather than just repair or toss it.

I wanted to retain as many of the original materials as possible, though this would necessarily involve sacrificing accuracy. I approached it as more a historically-informed art object than a rigorous model - it's for my hutch, not the Bishop Museum.

The accompanying booklet indicated that, like the genuine historical article, the canoe was made from koa, and indeed it is, but it turned out to be koa sapwood, which is porous, brittle, crumbly, and generally unpleasant to work with - sort of like going to a party offering free beer only to find all the O'Douls you could care to drink. [The booms, at least, are koa heartwood; when these kits were being produced, I guess sapwood was treated as a cast-off, though nowadays big koa trees (and thus big koa lumber) are rare enough that a lot of contemporary koa products incorporate the sapwood as well.]

Still, vintage koa is vintage koa, so I first refashioned the ends into a shape that is closer (although not all the way there, due to the limited amount of wood to work with) to the strange paddle beaks of traditional Hawaiian canoes. (Every Oceanic society seemed to have its own weird and special idea what to do with the prows of their canoes, as if the first thing you did upon settling a new island was to declare, "Henceforth, all canoes shall have prows like a swan head on a brachiosaurus neck, because the hell I didn't just find a goddamn uncharted island in the middle of the goddamn Pacific Ocean, and you can all lick my oar.")

I then modified the shape of the dugout and hollowed out a bit internally at each end, so it looks more like, well, a dugout, and less like fifteen seconds of router work inbetween your twelfth cigarette and cutting out early for loco moco and the point break. I also filled the lashing holes with putty because they're incorrectly placed on just about every possible axis.

Next was paint. Then, mostly on a whim, I carved a false joint to show that the endcaps are separate pieces (I didn't carve out the other joints where strakes would have been added to the dugout bottom, because it would have looked odd in an otherwise contiguous and unpainted piece of wood).

The booms lost a little weight.

So did the oar.

The float got slightly reshaped and drilled laterally for a genuine Hawaiian-style lashing.

Next we had the problem of the sail, which is made of tapa, the Austronesian paper/textile handmade from paper mulberry bast. Now, if you know anything about tapa, the idea of making a sail from it is kind of hilarious (the term "tapa sail" rings in a similar key to "tissue paper sail"), but it is also inherently cool as a material and makes for a vivid visual. This seemed to be pretty low-quality tapa (are you sensing a theme?), with the plies delaminating in a lot of spots. First I used a brush to impregnate as much of the interior as I could with paste, then just clamped the whole thing in the big bench vise, which solved the lamination issue.

Then there were the crappy initial lashing holes. One had already broken, so I simply trimmed off a bit from that whole side of the sail. I then used a little piece of the trimmings and repaired the other hole using the same method they use to patch the inevitable holes produced when manufacturing tapa: stick on some more tapa with a little paste, and pound it in with a wooden mallet. The resulting repair is basically invisible, and can be safely repunched if needed.

Then I went out to cut some branches for the mast and spar. Those get bent into shape and baked up real good in the oven.

And voila!

Then the outrigger gets attached, which is always a relief (and finally allows the stupid thing to stand on its own). In real life, the booms would be further lashed to ribs inserted at intervals into the hull, but let's not get carried away.

Then I glued in some simple popsicle-stick thwarts and a step for the mast. Traditionally, the mast was stepped on the outrigger boom, but there wasn't a lot of room for that, and at some point after European contact Hawaiians switched to rigging canoes with a spritsail stepped on a thwart or in the hull bottom, so, uh, we'll call this a "transitional form."

At this point we're basically done, but it still feels a bit bare-bones. I've always felt it's the little details that really make the model, so, this being a fishing canoe, I decided to add some ihu fashioned from a bit of cherry.

Those get lashed to the booms.

Then, with a handful of quick-'n-dirty fishing spears, everything is ready for clear-coat and final assembly.

[Final Fantasy victory fanfare]

The instructions conclude: "Properly finished your model will be a unique and beautiful souvenir in which you can take real pride." It was the truth...eventually.

And now, my daughters can commandeer it for playtime, where it will inevitably suffer the same fate as its predecessor. Maybe next time I'll make it into a coracle.

Thanks for looking!

If you are a fan of Kolohe Kai or know someone that is, I would like to gift them this sweatshirt.

It states a size M, but it more like an XS. I wear a S and it's tight.

I will ship to a fellow fan.

This sweatshirt is from the Sep 25 concert in San Diego.

I live in Georgia and I don't want to donate it, I'm sure we don't have many Kolohe fans around here. If you know a fan in Georgia, I'll ship to them or you.

If not allowed, please let me know. I tried looking up a Fan Club on Facebook, but no luck.

This sweatshirt is NEW, it's too tight so I never wear it.

My lost your gain....enjoy

Came across this damaged, rusted, and dangerous playground while working. Located in Mililani in the Makaunulau Community Park. Talked to someone that lives in the area.

Apparently it has had rusted holes in it for years. Earlier this year the state, boarded up one of the areas that were really rusty and damaged and wrapped it in caution tape. According to this resident the caution tape has become faded and blown off multiple times already only for them to just wrap it again with new tape.

How about we get this thing upgraded and fixed? There are so many kids that play on this thing with rusty holes in it that their feet can fall through. If what the resident says is true, this thing has been in bad shape for almost 10 years already. Just wrapping it in tape isn't going to do anything.

I need pants and high vis FR clothing for work. I already went to AWP and they didn't have any pants, only shirts and jumpsuits.