Nobu Waikiki

Introducing: http://www.noburestaurants.com/waikiki/experience/introduction/

Located in the beginning of Waikiki off Lewers Street near Roy's and Yard House

I don't know about you but me and my hub LOVE to try tartar especially if its good quality. So of course we asked for the BEST option and they gave it to us:

This is the Bigeye & Bluefin Toro  33

This dish was TINY in size HUGE on flavor and QUALITY!

If you have the $$ to savor the flavor SPLURGE yall its worth it ;)

Check that out! Now, for those of you who aren't familiar w/the bluefin tuna. It is one of the most expensive fish sold all over the world. In fact the most it ever got sold for was in 2001 in Japan's famous Tsukiji Fish Market for $400,000. I did feel bad after eating it again because I know how over harvested these poor creatures are but, I had to try it once.

Moving on.....This was the 2nd dish we had which is the 

Yellowtail Sashimi with Jalapeno   20 

One of the very popular dishes there and I can understand why. Everything was so GOOD! Like I mentioned before QUALITY fish! I typically won't spend this much on such a small dish but tonight it was all about QUALITY! It was great and I would highly recommend this dish to you.

This is the salmon/avocado roll. It looked tiny and nothing out of the ordinary but when we took our first bite we were AMAZED how filled they were in the inside and the flavor and QUALITY was there!

Tempura shitake mushroom

This was something nice to try....it was good but I don't think I will try it again nor say its a MUST try item.

King Crab Leg Amazu Ponzu   35 

This was AMAZINGLY great!!! It is a must try if going here!

Big eye & Bluefin toro w/scallions

Of course now we have the high quality sushi. It was really good! Quality again, lots of meet versus the rice which is always a PLUS in my opinion.  

Black Cod Saikyo Miso   30 

Very similar to the Miso butterfish which is my FAV! This was really good and I tried to get a good pics below to show how moist and flavorful it was. Highly recommended!

Spicy tuna w/big eye tuna

This was more for my hub! By this point I think I was up to *here* with fish lol I was ready for dessert

Every time I go to a new restaurant I ALWAYS ask the waiter for their opinion for the BEST/Signature dishes and then go w/what my taste buds want lol

I wanted chocolate and sine this item was their signature dish I said why not!

Bento Box   13

Flourless chocolate cake, goma tuile

and green tea ice cream

check that out! Although it has nothing on my Roy it was pretty good 

Grilled Goat Cheese Pound Cake   13

Goat cheese pound cake with black pepper ice cream,

lemon curd, raw Kiawe honey, macadamia nut liqueur foam,

seared strawberries & carmelized macadamia nuts

This was one of their popular dishes and I can totally understand why :) YUMM!

I could understand why Nobu is in the top 3 for BEST sushi/japanese restaurant on the island. If you like QUALITY sushi this is the place for you. It's Quality over Quantity here.

Cheese Ball recipe from Kristen Tuifua

Ok so today I went over to a friends house. Every month these mothers get together and exchange recipes, cook, eat and enjoy each others company. If you have children its alright and I thought that was awesome. Of course I don't have any children to bring but if I did its nice to know I could without feeling too bad. Anyways so here are the ladies that attended today:

Maeva, Moana, Kristin, Larissa, Wendy, Alohi and I

There was pizza

Egg white & avocado salad

raspberry macaroons

flour less chcolate cake

chicken carbonara

And my FAVORITE one the simple cheese ball!!! I LOVE cheese and cream cheese you put it together w/what ever and I'll be your BEST FRIEND ha ha ah ah ah

I couldn't get over it so when I went to buy my shopping today at Food Land I got 2 items that I didn't already have and I made it for my appetizer tonight. I forgot about the nuts so I had to use what I had and the only thing that I could think of that looked nice was furikake. And so here is my creation thanks to the inspiration I got today.

So you need 1 package of cream cheese, 1c of cheese, 1tbs of garlic, 4-5 dashes of the liquid smoke(I didn't have any so I just got the one in the picture because it was on sale) and some nuts for the outside(I realized that I didn't have any so used furikake but, the nuts would've been so much better) 

 Thanks Kristen for sharing this :)

So much FUN I can't wait to do this again!!! Thanks for visiting today :)

Waiahole Poi Factory

If you like Hawaiian food and you haven't eaten at Waiahole's Poi Factory....well, then your missing out. They are only open Fri-Saturday from 10-3pm. You've got to go over and try it out if your in the area or are craving some hawaiian food and are willing to go for a ride.The plate I normally get is the combo plate and I share it with my mom or my hub. Here is a pics:

Now, I'm only rating based on the everything but the lau lau and I'd give it a 9.5 out of 10 and the reason is for the brown rice. Its hard nowadays to find places that automatically give you brown rice instead of having to pay a dollar or more extra for a scoop. Anyways stop by and try them out really good food!

Wilson's bday @ Payao Thai Restaurant & Hokulani

Every time I go near Restaurant Row I have to stop by 2 places and that is Hokulani and Payao...and this is why

Hokulani was the first all cupcake store on the island and has held the reigns since 2005. They recently won cupcake wars on the Food Network and I was proud to say that, that was my bakery!

This is the reason why they are one of my fav...there red velvets are YUMMY!!! They run for about $2.25 a pop and their specialty ones normally are $3.25 like the one I featured below. Sorry about the quality it was taken with my phone.

Waialua fudge in the middle...YUM!

If they had any leftovers from the day before you can get a box for $8...and lucky me cuz I got a box lol

This is not the only cupcake shop I go to there are a few others that I have mentioned in the past and there are some news ones that I still have to try but I believe that there are about 4-5 all cupcake shops on the island. Not to worry I've gone to 3 of them so 2 more to go...stay tuned for those

Payao Thai Restaurant

 I LOVE my thai food but I've been kinda cutting back on my food intake and so I only got 2 plates. I got the shrimp red curry w/peanuts and calamari. They were really good I ate all of it. One plate goes for about $9 but, its yum and its kinda healthy. I give this place 8 out of 10.

Ruth's Christ take 3 lol

Ok so Ruth's Chris is my husbands favorite steak house...and well since I've become a vegetarian last year its not one of my favs anymore. However since it was Valentines Day and I didn't know what to get for him I decided to take him to dinner. I was hoping to get a nice salmon but, they didn't have it as an entree so here is what we got: Of course the Salmon appetizer I got was AWESOME!!! It was a special they normally don't have this....so I was EXCITED!!! This was pretty much my main dish because I didn't want to the mahi mahi so that was my reason for getting this dish and I'm happy I did. I'll give it a 9 out of 10

I LOVE the lavosh...10 for sure! I got like 3 refills lol

Stuffed crab mushrooms were very good and I don't know if it was because there wasn't very many choices for me but, I really enjoyed it. I give it a 9 out of 10.

Who cares about the cowboy rib eye steak :P Nah, he said it was good and if he would ate it, it would be a 10

Of course we had to get our garlic mash and sweet potato yummness!!

Oh you know this got a 10....along w/a scoop of vanilla haagen daz and VOILA hit da SPOT!!! 

That was a quick view of Vday for us...Hapy Vday babe next vday were going some where else lol I want SUSHI!!! So stay tuned for the next suhi stop :) Thanks for joining me! Come again...tah tah for now