Hawaii 2024 Day 2: North Shore, Da Bald Guy, 7-11

There's a small cafe Banyan Breeze located in building were staying at. They make some good coffee, homemade baked goods, and sandwiches. 

A friend of mine recommended that I check out Da Bald Guy Which is a food truck located in North Shore. So we decided to make a day out of it. It was over an hour to get there. 

Tera was mentioning how she was trying to buy a fresh coconut on her previous trip but couldn't find any. So on the way to North Shore, we saw a truck selling fresh coconuts.

They had to crack open 4 coconuts to get enough coco water to make it. Got a lot of coconut meat outta it though.

Made a pit stop to do a diaper change and it just so happened to be the Polynesian Cultural Center. 

I've never been here before and it's pretty nice. There's a lot of food stalls offering a variety of goods. 

There was a stall here offering fresh coconut and pineapple. 

We eventually made it to the food truck. It wasn't too crowded. The food truck is located in the same area as the original Giovani's Shrimp Truck.

We took our food to-go and headed to a nearby beach to hang out.

Garlic shrimp plate. It was pretty good.

Chopped Steak Plate - it was average, nothing special about it.

Pan Fried Poke Plate- my friend seemed to enjoy this.

I thought the food from Da Bald Guy was okay, if you're in the area it's worth a visit but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.

We hung out at the beach for a while and then headed back. Viet has been wanting to try spam musubi from 7-11 cause he heard it's cheap and pretty good. So we stopped by a location on the way back. He also got a butter mochi-flavored slurpee. 

The slurpee was not bad, but the musubi was pretty good honestly. 

We got back, napped and hung out at the Airbnb for the evening. 

Hawaii 2024 Day 1: Rainbow Drive-In; Ramen Ono-Ya

Emmalyn did really well on the Disneyland flight, so we took her to Hawaii for a week. Packing and traveling with kids for a long trip is hard, especially with all the stuff you need to bring. Luckily Tammy bought a foldable dolly which made it so much easier for us to handle all the stuff. We had two check-in luggage, pack-n-play, carry-on luggage, three backpacks, a stroller, and a car seat.

We arrived at the airport several hours early just to make sure we had ample time to do what we needed to. After getting thru the security check we headed to the lounge to relax.

 

We ordered Wild Turkey 101 but they gave us JD instead. 

The flight to Hawaii was almost full. We were lucky to end up with an empty middle seat thanks to the flight attendant as she was directing people away from us. 

The view from our room.

Thomas' first time to Hawaii.

We checked in, dropped off our luggage, and headed out to Rainbow Drive-In for our first meal.

It's best to order your food to-go because it's a lot of food and you're very likely to take leftovers. 

Boneless Chicken with Gravy plate added two eggs. This is delicious as always. 

Daily Special: Shoyu Chicken plate my wife really liked this. 

Pork Cutlet with Gravy plate.

BBQ Beef Plate

Loco Moco Plate

After our meal, we headed down the street to Safeway to stock up on supplies.

We tried to put Emmalyn down for a nap but she wasn't working.

Good thing we had our unofficial nanny on hand to put Emmalyn down.

We hung out at the Airbnb for the evening. The wives went to bed with the kids so the guys went out for dinner. 

I've been to Oahu many times so I'm always trying to find new places to eat. We decided to try Ramen Ono-Ya. 

I believe this was their spicy popcorn chicken special appetizer for the day. It was pretty good. Their service was super fast. 

Tonkatsu Tan Tan Men

Tonkatsu Spicy

Tonkatsu Black

The ramen was good, but not great. We headed back to the Airbnb and hung out for the rest of the night. Tomorrow we head to North Shore.