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 [...]
My Chinese parents speak to their dog, Mimi, in Chinese. After a month of marriage, my Italian husband was asked by a co-worker if he’s learned any of the Chinese language from spending time with his in-laws. He thought for a minute and said, “Mimi…lai!”
Katherine Chhor Cocchiaro
Attached is a picture of my hapa kid, James Lloyd Devine. He’s 10 months old when this picture was taken. He’ll be 1 year old next Friday. Hope this is “postable”.
Linae Ishii-Devine
Seaside, CA
James Lloyd Devine
Hi there
Someone forwarded me your website since I have a haole husband too. I found it be hilariously entertaining!!
lori
I was doing the only surfing you can do in michigan (on the web) and stumbled on this brilliant site! Being a hapa haole, you can imagine my surprise when I found a hapa site!
My haole husband is relishing in the fact that his past, present and future mishaps are not his alone. I [...]
That ‘Oneawa’ St. is not pronounced ‘one way’ .
Deane & Donna Gonzalez, married Feb. 1968 — and still going,
No kids, by choice, just dogs..
Aloha,
Deane & Donna
D and D with Kaoie Trout
D&D
After being single and “playing the field” for several years, I informed my mother I was marrying a Japanese girl, who is/was an exchange student at the local University.
Mom said “Japanese girls are pretty when they are young, but when they age, they really fall apart. Are you sure?” We’re going on 15 years [...]