Elysia and I don’t consider ourselves “foodies”, but we do love food. In particular recently, I’ve started to notice that I remember alot about a place or a holiday, by how the food was, cumulatively over the whole trip. Our 4 days in Waikiki, as it happened, resulted in some of the best meals I’ve eaten in my life, and one of those, was at Keo’s Thai Restaurant at Waikiki. It was by chance that we even ended up at Keo’s really. We were scanning through the hotel book for a place to have dinner: not really the way that [...]

We had a driver on our shuttle bus from the Honolulu airport make us some, what turned out to be mostly horrible recommendations for what to do and where to go while staying in Waikiki. The Wailana Coffee House being one of those recommendations, it was actually with some trepidation that we approached this popular Waikiki 24 hour joint. But we were there with a purpose. The only real reason I’d wanted to attend was the supposed magnificence of the diner’s Macadamia nut pancakes with coconut syrup. I consider myself a connoisseur of highly unhealthy sweet foods, so the second [...]