Category: Reviews

To no surprise, Poke is a trending food these days.  Unfortunately, when things “trend” they tend to lose a lot from it’s original form.  Quantity takes over quality and people are racing to turn more bowls into bucks.  So let’s skip the trend for a moment and focus on Pacific Catch, a Westcoast Fish House…

AUSTRALIA’S FIRST POKE SHOP In 2009 Ono Yum saw the need for poke on the mainland, so we started the I Love Poke Festival.  Going into our 7th year, it’s been nothing but amazing fun and memories that we will keep forever in our tummies.  We’ve also witnessed the humble dish that is poke become…

The desert is too hot in the summer.  We know this.  Why travel to a rad destination when all you want to do is stay inside where the A/C is blasting because if you go outside your skin will melt off?  This is why we planned our AZ trip for the November-January months.  As I…

Rolling down Koloa Road from Po’ipu, veer left onto a swath of gravel just after Lawai General Store and before the stoplight at Kaumuali’i Highway. There, find the charming vintage trailer of Dark Roost coffee, where the brews are as smooth and inviting as the tradewinds Hawai’i is known and remembered for. If you need…

This is the story of how “Sam Choy’s Poke to the Max” took over the streets of Seattle. Sam Choy is known as the Poke Master.  He is the man who unknowingly paved the way for our own event, I Love Poke, and most any poke establishment on the mainland should give credit to Chef…

Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of working with Stacks Pancake House as their photographer.  It’s been a real treat to see this power couple from Indonesia open up their first location in Dana Point, and then grow into a second location in Mission Viejo.  Stacks is a special breakfast place because of it’s…

I was having a very normal morning.  I woke up, put the kettle on for some green tea, put the news on and started to brush my teeth.  As I was brushing and watching, I noticed the news reporter was at a donut shop, so it got my attention even more.  Pretty much anything “food”…

In 2011 my son and I were in a documentary on sustainability in the surf industry. It was new. It was different. It was the future. Hands-down the quote of the film was, “WHAT’S MORE PUNK ROCK THAN SUSTAINABILITY?!” Think about it. It’s against the grain and contradicts everything humans have been pushing for the…

We who love Hawaii, but live in California, usually have our staple list of things we miss and crave from the land of plate lunch, poke and shave ice.  Each list may vary slightly pending on each persons individuality, but one thing is for sure.  90% of us living on the mainland will have malasadas…

About a year ago somebody (I don’t remember who) tagged me in a photo of a Kimchi Spam Musubi Croissant.  I was in disbelief that this even existed, so of course I had to do some research.  I found out that this piece of art was created by a bakery called Sugarbloom Bakery in LA.…