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Domino’s New Artisan Pizza: Better Crust, Toppings Still Need Work

Domino’s New Artisan Pizza: Better Crust, Toppings Still Need Work

A couple months back, Domino’s announced its new line of “Artisan” pizzas. Now, Domino’s freely admits that they’re not artisans. It says so right there on the box. (Then, confusingly [...]

The Most Expensive Pizza I’ve Ever Eaten

The Most Expensive Pizza I’ve Ever Eaten

“If you don’t try this when you visit the market, you fail.” —Robyn Lee [Photographs: Meredith Smith] Before heading to Honolulu’s KCC Farmer’s Market I consulted The Girl Who Ate [...]

Pizza’s Origins Traced to Korea

Pizza’s Origins Traced to Korea

“I hate Marco Polo. He stole one of our national treasures. He stole pizza from Korea.” Italy stole pizza from Korea! …at least according to this brilliant satire funded by [...]

New website gives commuters latest info on traffic

Check out this article from the Star-Advertiser. This will come in handy. The state Transportation Department has launched a new website that will provide real-time commuter traffic information designed to [...]

Koko Head Crater Trail

For many months, a good friend of mine, Song, would always tell stories of how great a hike the Koko Head Crater trail was and that it offered some of [...]

Experience Honolulu’s Best Businesses At An Half-Off Price!

Every week KSSK, Hot 93.9, Island 98.5, KHVH News Radio 830 and Star 101.9 offer up a ½-off gift certificate to some of Honolulu’s best restaurants and businesses! That’s right, [...]

The Chicken Alice Incident

I can’t begin to count the number of times that I’ve sat back and reflected on my childhood. Most of all, I think of the wonderful memories growing up in [...]

The Business Of Dirty Laundry

Kaimuki Laundromat

About 5 years ago, I embarked on one of the most challenging and unexpected ventures of my life.  No, I didn’t join the Red Cross or pilgrimage across the planet, [...]

Vicious Dogs

As many of you may well know,  I’m big on food.  So much so, that I plan entire trips around places I like to eat at.  Like when I fly [...]

French fry-coated hot dog!

One thing that struck me about finding the French fry coated hot dog on a stick in South Korea was that they were doing it wrong, the sort of cultural [...]