The start of the day is good. I get a great amount of sleep like 12 hours. My buddy ron has to work 8-12 pm. So I get up like 7:30 also, this will be my day to myself. I am about to head out to Chinatown. I have to hit up my favorite restaurant on the island in Chinatown. Pho To Chau, the food is amazing they make only one dish and do it real well. Vietnamese Beef Noodle soup, the owner is this grumpy lady and the service is terrible there but it's worth it. The shop was supposed to open at 8:30 but since it is hawaii she opens at 9:00 am.
I order some fried eggrolls and a huge bowl of pho. It tasted just at good as it was years ago when I visited this joint. So we finish breakfast and I head to the local farmers market at Kapiolani Community College.
I have been to this farmers market before and it has vastly improved 10x better vendors help. Food, produce, and specialty products. I meet dean from Nalo farm a really cool guy and really is champing the farm to table movement. I buy baby arugula, Portuguese sausage, and other various produces to make for break fast.
I decide to visit my old neighborhood on the east side of the island Hawaii Kai. This is my old stomping grounds. I see my old neighbors take and Flo they don't recognize me because I have moved 6 years ago. take is almost 90 years old and Florence is80 years old. We talk story and I ask about my old house and he said the owner sold it to his daughter. They do a huge remodel on it and I see brand new windows on the house. the reason i visit is to see my neighbors house that burned down. I had to say a prayer to say the vicitim that was lost in the fire. the younger sister who i helped save passed a few years ago. So now I am at peace.
Afterwards we head to costco hawaii kai where my brother used to work. This Costco got bigger, I avoid the costco in town in downtown Honolulu because it is a crush. Too many people going there at least at the is Costco it is not that bad. You can actually dock your boat and shop at Costco if you like.
Anyways meet one of my brothers coworkers tony who i remember. he was inquiring about my brother. I buy what I need and head back into Waikiki. I decide to stop by champions malasadas which is a fresh fried donut. So good it was burning my tongue.
I have a tennis match in 30 minutes. I meet ron's friends and meet my buddy Lee who I knew when I lived here. My tennis game is off and I can't serve to save my life or hit. We play until it gets dark at 6pm. All of ron's tennis buddies are cool. We were going to do a hot tub and beer afterwards but plans changed.
We decide on a comedy show instead. First was dinner we go to Lucky Belly, which was recommended by Gooch one of my chef friends. The menu is tiny but they do the food really well, Literally only 20 items on the menu. this is a drinking Establishment mainly food is second. We all spit the gnocchi special with mushroom, mackerel, in a cream sauce.
We all go for the ramen, I go for the beast bowl with smoked brisket and eggs. I am super dehydrated from tennis and decide not to drink that night. We miss the comey show due to dinner.
ron gets blitzed and we are out till 2pm. we get back home and he has the munchies. I pass out at 2:30pm.
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