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Here’s what I taught my Haole

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

Kris Murzyn

Here’s what I taught my Haole

When your local wife laughs at your attempts at speaking pidgin in the privacy of your home, this is not a go-ahead to do it in public in Hawaii EVER, especially in front of some big scary-looking dude.

Exception: if she asks you to say something in front of your friends (for [...]

This is what I had to teach my haole

That ‘Oneawa’ St. is not pronounced ‘one way’ .

Something to teach your haole…

Not everyone I call “auntie” and “uncle” are actually related to me.

Instead of insisting that he pronounce things correctly

Instead of insisting that he pronounce things correctly, let him give his friends that come to visit from the mainland driving directions and let him spell out his phonetic pronunciation. When they get lost and you give them the correct spellings of the streets, they will never let him live it down.

Allyn Tabata

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 am japanese my wife is haole.

Here’s one: I am japanese my wife is haole. On one of their many visits, my in-laws were with us at our home when my wife and I got into an argument.

My father-in-law, who is one of the smartest man I know, pulled me on the side and gave me some great [...]

This is what I had to teach my hubby

That rubber slippers are not called flip flops and that you have to grip them with your toes when you walk. Easier said than done when you grew up with sneakers!

That you have to respect your Japanese elders even though they can be very annoying. Bite your tongue and show them respect.

That when people refers [...]

I have to convince my husband

I have to convince my husband that good Chinese restaurants may not have table cloths on the tables but that almost all of the customers are usually Asian.

Another feature…the soup and the tea better be served very hot!

I have other haole stories to tell….

Hi again,
I have other haole stories to tell….

1. My husband & I went to Manila to visit my family & he was amazed that even my uncle, auntie, cousins & nephews came by to pick us up at the airport.

2. He developed a habit of sometimes calling me with “Pssssst…” ie what [...]