It's all bout the HOT SAUCE!!

I found unique shop last weekend, and it's called "Chill in Hawaii".

I went inside the store and I saw a lots lots lots of hot souce and papper!!! Also you can taste them if you ask!

Hot papper lovers, you must go there!!!

How cute street name is!

Yesterday, I was driving, and I found cute street name!

That is "Hibiscus Drive."

It locates on nearby Diamondhead.

Hibiscus is a state flower in Hawaii.

When I found this street, suddenly I imagined like, "if I move to this street, my address will be..."
I will always be fun when I write down the address.

By the way, Hawaii's street names are related to Hawaiian cultures and histories.

Famous main roads names in here like Kapiolani or Kalakaua come from name of Hawaiian King or Queen.

If you know about Hawaiian history, you can understand about most of street names here.

Happy Halloween!

Are you ready for tonight?

The shops in Ward center are hanging the bats tonight.
It means we are passing the treats!!

Of couse, our shop is hanging it!

We are looking forward to see your hot and scary looks!


May the magic of Halloween be with you!

Hawaiian Pidgin English

I think, language is one of the identities.

In Hawaii, local people strongly have the identities for their birth, and family roots.
And, speaking Creole English is showing their love for this island!!

Pidgin Enslish derives mainly from English but also has words from Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, Ilocano and Tagalog from the Philippines and Portuguese. And, they form one common language which is mainly based English although it has much loan words from other languages.

In generaly, Pidgin English is spoken among parents who are immigrants, or who do not have English as their first language. On the other hand, Creole English is spoken by their second generation (children) or after generations who speak English as their first language.

Anyway, Creole Ensligh or Pidgen Enlish is hard to undertand for non local people!!

I will show you common examples as below. Can you guess what they are saying?

Howzit? (how is it? how are you?)
Hey brah (braddah): female eqivalent is "sistah."
no need (that is not necessery)
akamai (clever)
ono (delicious)
pau (finished)
plate lunch (the staple for lunch in Hawaii)
pupu (pre meal snacks)
Shoots (used when in defenite agreement, ok)
Shoyu (soy source)
Stink eye (dirty look)
yeah/ yeah? (I agree/ right?)
yups (Yes)
da (the)
bento (Japanese lunch box)


And, I think, the most interesting thing is directions!!
In here, nobody use west, east, north, or south.
In stead of them, we use north shore, diamondhead, ewa or mouka and makai.

Opening Sale during this month!!

At last, we re-opened the store at the Ward Center!!

We appriciated all of the supports for us.









We are now at start point again.
We will make better store with much aloha spirit.

By the way, during this month, we are doing "Opening Sale."
Everything in the store is all 20% off!!

Please feel free to stop by our new store.

Big Mahalo,

La-2 Hawaii Lani

Moving to Ward Center !

Finally we are moving from down town to Ward Center which has a lots of shops, movie theater.

I think we have 4 main mall here in honolulu.

Ward center,Ala Moana Shopping center,Pearl Ridge shopping mall, Waikele outlet mall. The biggest mall is Ala Moana, and you can walk to Ward center from there also.

We are going to move to nice, beautiful location! You can come visit us easily more than down town location !!

Ribbon Leis

I'v been started to make Ribbon Leis!

As I wrote before, Lei is the one of Hawaiian cultures.
In Hawaii, lei can be found at the most of every occasions like birthdays, graduations, weddings, funerals, parties, and bridal showers.

Hawaiian Ribbon Leis are designed throug braiding, sewing, twisting, or stringing of ribbons with hand picked flowers, leaves, nuts and seeds.
Those Ribbon Leis will not wilt or fade.

History of Hawaiian Ribbon Leis is narrow, however people in hawaii love it as same as Leis.
And, Aloha spirits are also in them.