We woke up early and headed to the http://www.halekulani.com/ hotel- to meet up with some family friend's of Amy's whose trip to Hawaii coincided with ours. This is the only 5 star hotel in waikiki and it's really beautiful and is a fantastic place to have breakfast as the restaurant has a great patio with a killer view. We all ate the same thing- a version of eggs benedict with kahlua pork (the well known traditional hawaiian pork) that was really good. After breakfast we headed to the North Shore with my buddy Raymond and on the way stopped at http://www.leonardshawaii.com/ to get Malasadas. A malasada (or malassada) is a Portuguese confection. They were first made by inhabitants of São Miguel Island, part of the Azores. Malasadas are made of egg-sized balls of yeast dough that are deep-fried in oil and coated with granulated sugar. A popular variation is where they are hand dropped into the oil and people have to guess what they look like. These are one of those culinary delights that is extremely simple and extremely good. Amy of course loved them.
We stopped at Sunset beach- http://www.northshore.com/hawaii/sunset-beach-hawaii.asp for our first real beach experience. It was super hot and sunny which was great given the lack of summer weather in New England this summer.
From the beach we headed to Romy's shrimp truck and had some tasty prawns. This was followed by a shave ice in Haleiwa.
In the evening we went to Sushi Sasabune http://www.yelp.com/biz/sushi-sasabune-honolulu and had an epic sushi meal. If you sit at the sushi bar you can't order what you want- the sushi chef makes things and gives them to you and when you are full you tell them to stop and recieve your bill which is a shocker. The sushi was incredible- we had toro from spain, scallop from boston, salmon from new zealand, killer yellowtail, squid from japan that was stuffed with crab. It was definately one of the best sushi meals I have ever had.
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