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| Renn watching the turtles |
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| Hello baby octopus!!! |
OK, so I mentioned poke last week but I was thinking maybe some of you don't know what poke (pok-eh) is. Poke basically means "diced". Is is traditionally fish, like raw ahi (tuna) seasoned with things like ogo (seaweed), sesame seeds, sea salt, pepper flakes, onions, sesame oil, soy sauce... There are other ones though, like tako (octopus) and tofu... We went to town last night because we were out of printer ink (note to self {this note list is getting very long} buy the extra large ink cartridges) and since we had made the hour drive decided to have dinner at Da Poke Shack on Alii Drive as we've heard nothing but ono (good) things about it. It was getting close to closing so our selection was limited, I got the sesame ahi....but not John, he went for spicy tako....OMG, I couldn't believe he was eating these firey red baby octopuses... and if you look at the picture the sesame seeds on it looked like little eyeballs and the breeze was making his little legs move!!!! No way was I trying that Keoni (that's John in Hawaiian)! We also got some kalua pork and a laulau (pork and butterfish wrapped in taro leves and then ti leaves and steamed). Everything was great and we had it at there beach side picnic table. As we were eating I saw a couple of turtles in the surf and they were head down having their seaweed dinner.... nice night and we got home just before dusk! PS: My frind Leigh was very worried about the mama octopus missing her babies...(I'm thinking that many babies must have come from more than one mama and mama was probably served up in a whole different dish)... I told her not to worry!
OK, so I mentioned poke last week but I was thinking maybe some of you don't know what poke (pok-eh) is. Poke basically means "diced". Is is traditionally fish, like raw ahi (tuna) seasoned with things like ogo (seaweed), sesame seeds, sea salt, pepper flakes, onions, sesame oil, soy sauce... There are other ones though, like tako (octopus) and tofu... We went to town last night because we were out of printer ink (note to self {this note list is getting very long} buy the extra large ink cartridges) and since we had made the hour drive decided to have dinner at Da Poke Shack on Alii Drive as we've heard nothing but ono (good) things about it. It was getting close to closing so our selection was limited, I got the sesame ahi....but not John, he went for spicy tako....OMG, I couldn't believe he was eating these firey red baby octopuses... and if you look at the picture the sesame seeds on it looked like little eyeballs and the breeze was making his little legs move!!!! No way was I trying that Keoni (that's John in Hawaiian)! We also got some kalua pork and a laulau (pork and butterfish wrapped in taro leves and then ti leaves and steamed). Everything was great and we had it at there beach side picnic table. As we were eating I saw a couple of turtles in the surf and they were head down having their seaweed dinner.... nice night and we got home just before dusk! PS: My frind Leigh was very worried about the mama octopus missing her babies...(I'm thinking that many babies must have come from more than one mama and mama was probably served up in a whole different dish)... I told her not to worry!
That baby octopus was probably best friends with the sea turtle. I'm guessing the sea turtle was up looking for his friend. I'm so distraught...I can't even type anymore.
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