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On the “Windward” side of the island, in the small beach town of Kailua, The Food Company Market & Cafe is a hidden gem that many locals treasure.  From the outside, it doesn’t look anything special, but inside their menu is a plethora of meals ranging from pancakes to braised short ribs.  The selection of […]

Happy New Year!  Goodbye 2012 and hello 2013! For me, the time seems to go by faster as the year passes.  2012 has been an interesting roller coaster ride.  Usually my years are uneventful, but not this year.  During my winter break, I’ve reflected on the good, bad, and crazy times of 2012.  I don’t […]

Finally, we are in Florence, Italy.  I said goodbye to the cold rain and said Buon Giorno! to sun and heat.  Our group had a hard time deciding where to stay in Italy.  After a interesting encounter with a girl (before we left Hawai’i), she raved about Florence and how we HAVE to stay there for a […]

Hi, I’m Jennifer and I’m a recovering over-packer.  I believe the worst part of traveling are packing and unpacking.  I’m not one of those people who start days before their trip to pack.  I treat it like an episode of Amazing Race.  The challenge is to pack a whole week (or more) worth of clothes […]

Chicago is filled with good eats, but the key is finding it.  My friends and I had a hard time finding places to eat on Yelp and TripAdvisor.  I guess the reason why it was so hard to find a good place to eat is because we didn’t know the area very well.  Since we […]

About a 10 minutes drive away from Giovanni’s Shrimp Truck there is another famous must try place in North Shore. Just like the shrimp truck, Matsumoto’s is known for one thing, their shave ice.  Shave ice, as we like to call it, is also known as snow cones, snowballs, kakigori, guri guri, etc.  Basically all have […]

In 1993, an unassuming white bread truck turned Shrimp truck took simple ingredients and served up some of the best shrimp plates on the North Shore. Giovanni’s Shrimp Truck would drive around to all the hot surf spots on the North Shore.  Word of mouth spread about the famous (and cheap at the time) shrimp […]

I’ve always felt that you can learn a lot from a person by looking at the following: Their emails iTunes song list DVD collection/Netflix Queue Amazon wish list It says a lot when a hot guy loves Cher and have her entire discography on his iPod.  It makes you wonder, “could he be gay?”  I’m […]

  As an inspiring journalist, I’ve never thought I would experience sitting in on the Page One meeting at the Chicago Tribune.  I am no where near Chicago Tribune worth.  I would be mere pebble in the Tribune’s Italian leather shoe.  (Don’t ask me why I compared the Tribune to Italian leather shoe.  It not […]

Next week Monday, I’ll be leaving sunny (super hot) Hawai’i for the cold windy city of Chicago.  This is my third time in Chicago, but my first time being there during Halloween.  I had a hard time figuring out what costume will go well with the cold weather.  I found the perfect costume and even […]