Went to Kihei today on the bus. I didn’t really know where to get off and it was not as big of a tourist area like Lahaina. This place had a lot of beaches and places to snorkel or fish. Got off the bus to look around for a bit but the ride was long and had to get back to work so I didn’t have much time to sight-see.
30 March 08
Walked a little around Hilo and saw Banyan Drive – it’s a street lined with banyan trees all planted in the 1930’s by famous people like Baby Ruth, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Cecil DeMille, etc. These trees are about 70 years old… the one in Lahaina was from 1830’s and was huge. It took up a whole block – the trees dangle out their branches which act like roots and grow where ever the branch goes.
Today’s work was quite funny. We’ve been ordering unagi sauce the past few days but it hasn’t show up (it is sauce we put on the eel – it’s kind of like teriyaki sauce). We figured the executive chef looked over our requisition and cancelled the order. Since there are 10 restaurants on the ship and everyone’s orders get cut, there has been a lot of stealing. Other cooks from other restaurants will come to our restaurant and take whatever they need and vice versa. One night we actually ran out of soy sauce – there were just none to give to the customers… yes, it a sushi bar where soy sauce it a bit mandatory. We ended up going to the buffet upstairs and “borrowing” theirs.
But anyway, on with the story… so we haven’t been receiving our unagi sauce. Again, we ran out of soy sauce and one of the wait staff went upstairs to the buffet to find more. In addition to the soy sauce, he also found 3 gallons of unagi sauce. Ok, so the upstairs buffet doesn’t use this sauce for anything but the hilarious part was that it was found in the tea cupboard where the ice tea concentrate is kept. Apparently, people have been taking our restaurant unagi sauce thinking it as the ice tea concentrate for iced tea. They do look exactly alike even the label except one says tea concentrate and the other unagi sauce.
Our restaurant manager was debating whether to pass on the message of unagi used as tea. Perhaps that’s why the guests have been complaining the ice tea doesn’t taste very good. Anyway, he called to inform the chef who then had to taste all the ice tea and dump them.
28 March 08
Worked the breakfast omelet station in the morning then had the rest of the day off. I had the chance to attend the luau in Kauai. There was dinner, dessert and a show – all sorts of hula dancing. The best part, I thought was the dancing with fire. I got a few pictures and a short video.
My roommate decided to get a tattoo. She had set up an appointment for today. I was trying to scare her and say she was going to cry it would hurt really bad since she wanted it located on the back of her neck on the spine. So much for that since she giggled… guess it didn’t hurt but rather tickled. Perhaps she’s a bit of a masochist.
banyan trees
hilo was hit in the early 1920's by tsunami and lava - this area kept getting destroyed.
Japanese garden
Luau
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fire dancing movie
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