{"id":13827,"date":"2010-10-02T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T01:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13827"},"modified":"2010-10-04T00:12:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T04:12:55","slug":"wit-life-129-maui-manju-and-other-hawaii-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/02\/wit-life-129-maui-manju-and-other-hawaii-discoveries\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #129: Maui Manju and other Hawaii discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\">WITLife<\/a><\/strong><\/em><em><strong> is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em><em><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.stacysmith.webs.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stacysmith.webs.com\/\"><strong>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><em><strong>(Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares s<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>ome of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mmm-yoso.typepad.com\/mmmyoso\/images\/p1060384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"188\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I find myself lucky enough to be finishing my current interpreting assignment here in Honolulu.\u00a0 I head home tonight but was able to spend my last afternoon with my local JET friend, who took me to the Don Quijote behind my hotel.\u00a0 I was expected the kind of <em>zakka<\/em> they have in Japan, but here it is a full-fledged supermarket stocked with a plethora of\u00a0Japanese and other goods!<\/p>\n<p>One item I found there that I have never <!--more-->encountered before in Hawaii was Maui Manju.\u00a0 My friend became visibly excited when she saw it, saying she always brought some home when she visited Maui, but didn&#8217;t know they sold it here.\u00a0 The official name is Maui Crispy Manju, and she said it is different from the typical version of this sweet in that it&#8217;s somewhat flaky.\u00a0 There were a variety of flavors such as sweet potato, but I went for the standard <em>azuki <\/em>(the Deluxe pictured).\u00a0\u00a0 Its texture resembled that of a scone, and the red bean taste was not very pronounced.<\/p>\n<p>Another sweet being sold at a small stand in Don Quijote was <em>taiyaki<\/em>, but it went beyond your standard red and\u00a0white bean flavors to offer both a cranberry and a ham\/sausage and cheese breakfast version.\u00a0\u00a0As it was already after lunch, I went for the former.\u00a0 The\u00a0inside was composed of actual dried cranberries, which\u00a0was disappointing as I was expecting more of a paste.\u00a0 However, the taste\u00a0went well with the\u00a0taiyaki outside.<\/p>\n<p>It is always interesting to find new foods here that demonstrate how Hawaii has fused disparate\u00a0culinary cultures.\u00a0 I look forward to coming\u00a0back and making\u00a0my next discovery!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations. I find myself lucky enough to be finishing my current interpreting assignment here in Honolulu.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,70,18,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-article","category-food-drink","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3B1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13827"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13840,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13827\/revisions\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}