Stickerama

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K saw a bumper sticker on the road that he thought was hilarious.  It said ‘Eh! Try wait!’  Since then he’s been looking for it.  Someone at work told him that he might find it at Town and Country, a surf shop at Ala Moana.

They didn’t have it but a salesperson steered us to a lower level kiosk called ‘You Name It!’  Again, no luck but they did have three ‘pages’ of Filipino car stickers!  Incredible!  K and I were marveling that there probably isn’t any other place in the US that you can go to the most upscale mainstream mall and find dozens and dozens of Filipino themed car stickers. Hawaii is awesome.

I got one that says ‘Ilocano’ and then I got paranoid and called my mom to ask her if I was in fact half Ilocano and she quipped ‘no your American’.  She was on the phone with someone else and said she’d call me back.  Later she told me ‘I am Ilocano, your dad is Bikolano and I like to say we’re Bilocano.’  And then she started to go into this whole spiel and I told her I just needed to know if I could put this bumper sticker on our car.

Later I thought about it and told K, ‘so what if I wasn’t actually Ilocano, it’s not like I’m an elephant’ (in reference to our Ganesh bumper sticker).  He said that that in fact was very true.

Butters, Creams, and Preserves

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K’s friends are having us over for dinner this week.  They live close by so I thought it would be nice if we went outside of Kailua/Lanikai to find something to bring with us.  I’ve been wanting to visit Made in Hawaii in Pearl City ever since I read about their Mochi Strawberries.  I knew they sold something special called Lilikoi cream cheese which I thought would be easy to keep until we go over for dinner in a couple of days.

The shop is teeny tiny–just a little front space of an outlet/factory.  The woman who greeted us was very helpful and gave us samples of their jams, fruit butters, and cream cheeses.  I learned that Lilikoi is yellow passion fruit. Delicious!  I was disappointed that they only had Mochi Strawberries from Wednesday to Saturday which she recommended ordering in advance.  But we’ll go back another day for that.  Everything in the store is made in Hawaii and they produce their own jams and preserves under the label Island Preserve.  We ended up choosing Strawberry Guava Cream Cheese, Pineapple Blueberry Jam, and Lime Butter.  This place joins the list of great places for gifts to bring home.