Breakfast for dinner

I'm at Eggs & Things, enjoying fluffy pancakes with coconut and guava syrup (that's two different syrups).

This Waikiki place is famous with Japanese tourists, and the waiter was about six Japanese sentences into getting us seated before I finally told him, "Eigo hanashimasu" (i.e., "We speak English").

The food here is great, by the way. That is, if you like breakfast. The one thing I generally missed in Seoul was a good Western breakfast, and I've spent the last four years in Honolulu making up for the prior decade or so in Seoul.

Açaí bowl at Blue Hawaiian

The latest in my breakfast series is the "açaí bowl" at Ala Moana's Blue Hawaii Life Style shop, which includes a café.

Apparently, this place is all the rage with Japanese tourists. This concoction includes bananas, granola, açaí (apparently pronounced ah-sah-ee), other berries, and honey.

Totemo oishikatta desu. I shall be back.

Bring a friend and share a regular, twice as big as a small, but only 30% more expensive. (I never stop being in frugal grad student mode.)

A tough day to be a chicken

Denny's was kind enough to treat America to a free Grand Slam Breakfast today (Tuesday) from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., so I took a breakfast buddy with me to Aiea and gobbled down two eggs, two sausage links, two slices of bacon, and two pancakes. I paid for the coffee (and I left a sizable tip).

This is my reward for watching the Superbowl, which announced this special in one of their commercials. When you're a grad student on a tight budget, this kind of deal is important.

And that's all I'm going to write. If I keep going, this will end up as a tirade about how hard it is to find a good Western breakfast even in Seoul, which prevents me from calling the capital a truly "global city."