It’s Friday — and you’ve been counting down to the three-day weekend.
Me, too, actually, and right now I could use a drink. (Or a massage. Right now it’s a toss-up.)
I figure many of you — whether you’ve just completed your second week in college or survived a marathon meeting where nothing got done — you probably deserve a bit of unwinding.
So here are some of my favorite spots to hang out after work, with some of my favorite nosh items.
Get out there and eat, folks. Have a great weekend!
It’s almost like choosing between Team Edward or Team Jacob.
(Thanks to all the “Twilight” fans who got that reference.)
Turns out, there are clearly distinct camps when it comes to the two leading men in CBS’ “Hawaii Five-0”, its second season set to premiere on Monday, Sept. 19.
You’re either with the cool, collected Det. Steve McGarrett (played by Alex O’Loughlin) or the fast-talking, high-strung Danny “Danno” Williams (played by Scott Caan).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmXq7O6wDKg
Watch this montage by CBS
I mean, you can’t find more contrasting characters, down to their hair color. One is single, the other divorced. One is stoic, the other emotional. One is by-the-book, the other is by-his-own-book. It’s the Odd Couple recast.
Personally, I’m all about Danno. He’s witty, biting, brutally honest and delivers such gems as this: “You’re like a devourer of dreams. You eat them. You’re like a little Pac-Man in cargo pants.” I vote for him.
So what about you? Are you on Team McGarrett or Team Danno?
The University of Wisconsin at Madison knows how to throw an orientation: have a picnic in a place like this. Helps that this lovely lawn is actually on campus.
There’s nothing better than fried dough.
Especially when that fried dough — in this case, the Okinawan donut andagi — is freshly made at the annual Okinawan Festival, held this weekend at Kapiolani Park.
While the annual festival serves such Okinawan staples as pig’s feet soup, yakisoba, Okinawan-style soba and shoyu pork, the andagi — and the many variations of it — are the big draw. The festival sells more than 100,000 balls of fried dough over the two days. People can’t seem to get enough!
So much so, the festival has introduced other andagi creations, including the Andadog — a hot dog covered in andagi batter and deep-fried — and Fundagi, a new dish this year that’s a combination of andagi and funnel cakes.
Another new menu item — and no, this doesn’t involve andagi batter — is taco rice, a popular dish invented in Okinawa. It’s a bed of rice topped with ground beef flavored with taco seasonings, shredded lettuce, cheese and salsa. Trust me, it’s good.
But there’s more to the Okinawan Festival than food. There will be entertainers from Okinawa, taiko performances, karate demonstrations, a country store, a texting contest and the last bon dance of the summer season.
We got a sneak preview of the festival from Ellen Higa, a veteran angadi maker who taught me how to correctly drop andagi, among other things:
Special thanks to the Hawaii United Okinawa Association for arranging this festival preview and Melissa Chang (@melissa808) for shooting this video
