Archive

My Haole husband is actually part Hawaiian

My Haole husband is actually part Hawaiian and grew up in Hawaii just like I did. BUT while he loves rice and expects it every meal except when we eat spaghetti, he butters his rice! Yuck!

Unfortunately, as hard as I tried to teach our Hapa kids the “right” way to eat rice, they too [...]

Here’s what I taught my Haole

Pani Popo is delicious and yes boiled green bananas are edible.

Kris Murzyn

Spam musubi

I had been living on the mainland for, oh, I guess about 4 years. I had really been missing Spam musubi so the next time I went home, I bought a Spam musubi maker and nori. I was so excited.

My first day back on the mainland I cooked the rice and [...]

a classic of my New Jersey Joe

Hawaii Gina here again w/ a classic of my New Jersey Joe. For a fella who grew up next to the ocean his entire life….he DOESN’T EAT SEAFOOD!

And when I try to get him to eat something Hawaiiana, I say, “Try it. It’s good for you.” And he always says, “HOW good for me?” [...]

Teach your haole..

You’re not to use your finger to sample food from the buffet table or better yet quit asking “what’s in it”, show respect and just try it.

- Joni Carey

I could be the luckiest woman

I could be the luckiest woman, because when I found my Haole husband he already loves rice and soy sauce (halleluyah!) But then no matter how much toyo, or patis or teriyaki sauce I put on a meat dish, he still likes to cover his rice with soy sauce. I always tell him “that [...]

I am the Haole in our family.

I am the Haole in our family. Thank you all for including *haole wives* in your club!!!!
I was divorced with a three year old Hapa daughter(Hawaiian,Chinese,Haole) when I met my future-husband-to-be. He is local-Japanese. We have been married for almost 20 years.

We had been seeing each other for eight months when I thought I could [...]

Funny food stories

I have two …

When we were dating, my husband said he never liked food with shoyu in it. I told him I put it in just about everything I had cooked for him. He never mentioned that again.

My son and I used to get REALLY embarrassed when my husband asks for butter [...]

Passion Fruit and Lilikoi

We were ordering shave ice at Waiola Store. My Haole hubby ordered “A large cone with Passion Fruit and Lilikoi”.

Andrea

a taste of Durian

When my husband first had a taste of Durian, the famous smelling fruit from the Philippines, he had to hold his nose and his breath. He said it tasted like sweet creamy custard but it stank so bad

Since then he’s made it a law that Durian is not allowed inside [...]