Okinawan Festival 2009

Okinawan Festival - Hawaii

Since my mom had bought some Okinawan Festival scripts from a friend, we headed on down to Kapiolani Park yesterday to help her spend it!

We browsed through an arts and craft tent, a country store, and another tent selling orchid plants. My mom picked up a really pretty orchid that will look great once it blooms. We passed the entertainment stage and a bunch of kid’s games making our way to the Okinawan culture tent.

Bonsai

Around this time I realized I could blog about the festival so I started to take a couple pictures. Above and below are pictures of the many bonsai plants that were on display.

Bonsai

Next it was time for some food!

Okinawan Festival - Hawaii

The line for the andagi went really quickly

Andagi Line

It was perfect – crunchy on the outside and warm and soft on the inside!

Andagi

We also ordered several yakisoba plates for our early dinner.

Yakisoba

Before heading home, we took our snacks and dinner to the Diamond Head lookout and enjoyed our food with these views…

Diamond Head Lookout

Diamond Head Lookout


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9 comments   -   September 6, 2009

1 Lauren { 09.06.09 at 1:00 pm }

Glad to see that you started blogging again Lori!
The andagi looks sooo good!

2 Lori { 09.06.09 at 1:51 pm }

Hey Lauren,
Thanks for stopping by! I started a new job several months ago…it’s been keeping me really busy! :)

3 rowena { 09.07.09 at 9:15 pm }

Thanks for sharing this Lori. It’s the kind of stuff that makes me miss the islands especially with the temps beginning to fall over here. That view….awesome!

4 Lori { 09.07.09 at 11:10 pm }

Hey rowena,
I know you were back home recently, but I hope you can come back again soon! :D

5 Brad F. { 09.09.09 at 8:48 am }

The food looks delicious, especially the yakisoba. Is andagi sweet? Oh, and those are some nice views too! Makes me want to head to the nearest beach.

6 Traci { 09.09.09 at 1:12 pm }

Hope you had a good time at the festival. I missed it this year…my boyfriend and I spent our day weekend on Maui. I would always buy the Okinawan soba…yummy. Oh well, theres always next year. Nice pictures of the beach.

7 Lori { 09.10.09 at 11:16 pm }

Hi Brad,
Andagi is like a dense deep fried donut, not very healthy…but delicious!

Hi Traci,
When you get back you can head to Off the Wall for some Okinawan soba! ;)

8 kat { 09.11.09 at 12:08 am }

way to go, you were listed as one of the top 10 blogs on hawaii :) the daily reviewer

9 Lori { 09.12.09 at 5:14 pm }

Cool, thanks for letting me know kat!! :D

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