Red Rice Beer

This import is mighty amazing. This 21 oz Japanese beer is brewed with red rice. It had a crisp beginning and a bite in the aftertaste with a nutty tone. I would definitely recommend at 7% for a beer. Another 8 out 10.

Brick

Sunday we went to Long John Silvers. Two weeks ago I discovered that there is in fact a LJS on the island. I have seen commercials for over a month about how they have these lobster bites. Rabbit likes the hush puppies and was game to try this place. I have not eaten at this chain of restaurants in about 20 years... and it will be another 20 till I do again. After ordering one of their "little bit of everything" platters with fries, piece of fish, lobster bites...you get the picture. Everything tasted the same, from the fish to the fries, how you ask? Must all be done in the same oil. So the entire plate tasted like weak fish.
By the way, it felt like I ingested a brick. For two hours after my stomach was so heavy. UG!

Good but funny looking

This is a Lule kebob. You can only guess what I thought this resembled from the pic. It was so tasty. If you ever have a chance check out Leo's Taverna in town or their little booth in front of Kaheka Don Quixote. They have the best Greek food for your money.

Corsican Beer

Found this beer from Corsica ... Home of Napoleon. It is a Witbeer style. It unfortunately was skunky. I do not think it was the beer's fault. It was poor storage and this store often keeps selling stuff waaaaaaay past its fresh period. Sad.

Big Sunday Ride

Yesterday we started of with a small cruise over Likelike to Windward Mall. We had a little sushi then headed off to Chinaman's hat.

Enjoying the nice ride to the hat, we felt it would be no problem pushing on to Haleiwa. Not such a great idea. We didn't have many delays getting to Laie (love the look of the McDonald's there)

Where we got stuck was just past Waimea Bay on to Haleiwa where people were going crazy over some turtles coming on to the beach. Ever tourist on the island was either rubber necking to the beach below or trying to find a parking space immediately to see them. Sorry no pictures. I just wanted to get past that portion of road. There is nothing like sitting on an air-cooled bike on a sunny day in slow moving traffic. With stops and traffic, I think we did the 70 miles in almost 6 hours. (There were many stops about every ten miles to stretch our legs and refreshments.)

We are thinking of going back to hit the shrimp trucks outside the farms. I have never eaten there amazingly enough.

A New Scottish Beer

Got this beer at a specialty shop in town. Brew Dog's Punk IPA. It comes from Scotland's East coast. It was 6%, very hoppy with a clean taste and finish. 22 oz. for under $10.
8 out 10

A New Chapter

For those who don't know, I have a new toy. I spent the end of March learning how to ride a motorcycle. I picked up this little bad boy on April 1st. I have been trekking around Oahu since.


Today I went to Kaena point from Mokuleia side. Although this bike is capable of going pretty far past the signs and up the trails, I am just in front of a dirt pile. No desecration of native habitat for me. I did see others take off further up the trail.

Sorry to all that we have slacked

In case you we missed telling you personally, we are back on Oahu. I will try to keep this blog better updated.

Saturday - Surf and Suds

Sorry for the long absence. We were not going out enough to have fun blog stuff. This past past weekend was a pretty good one. Saturday we went to the Maui Ocean Center. It was a lovely freebie from our cable company. The passes were a welcome treat. It is much larger than Sea Life Park in our perspective, but no Sea World.


After seeing all the beautiful fish, we were thinking about a salt water tank of our own. I heard they are more difficult than the standard aquarium, but they are just so beautiful.


Ever since we considered living on Maui, I have wanted to visit the Maui Brewing Company. When we did arrive, we found it closed for renovations. (bummer) I read in the paper that it just reopened. This is the sampler. It had the IPA, Bikini Blonde Lager, Coconut Porter and the seasonal Xtra Pale Ale. Delicious. We took home a growler of the Xtra Pale draught.


The decor was fun. There are beer keg lights if you can see them. Also in this picture are some of the tanks of beer. They also installed a frost bar. When sitting on the bar, there is a icy strip to place your beer to keep you glass cold between sips. How awesome is that!?