All Sorts of Island Treats

Tuesday, November 15th

We were all awake and ready to go at 8am, heading to Spice’s for breakfast. Coffee, omelets, and pancakes were the favorites.

Everyone at our table was a member of the clean plate club.

As we were leaving, Dirtboy said, “Did you see that French toast? I bed that would taste good with coconut syrup.”

Dirtboy doesn’t quite believe me when I tell him every breakfast place in Hawaii has it on their table: from the Grand Wailea dining room to The 5 Palms terrace, from Denny’s to McDonald’s.

The power of the coconut syrup got Dirtboy through his hours of work related conference calls.

Now if he could only finish the extra bag of Maui Style, Maui Onion flavored chips he bought at the store. It’s not the lunch sized, snack bag, it’s the large 14 ½ oz sized bag.

After the first set of conference calls we headed down to La Perouse Bay at the southern end of Maui. Named after French explorer Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse, who led an expedition to the Pacific in 1786, rounding Cape Horn and checking out Chile and Easter Island before arriving at The Sandwich Islands (the Hawaiian Islands).

La Perouse stopped at Maui only long enough to survey and map the bay then headed north to Alaska and Japan before returning to the South Pacific in 1787. He was expected home in France by June 1789 but neither he nor his men were seen again.

Completing the trek around the area Hubby drove us into Kihei-town for a shave ice… Mrs. Dirtboy’s newly discovered favorite. This time she was brave enough to try it with adzuke, Japanese sweet red beans.

I had trouble deciding which flavors I should choose: coconut, banana, POG? Or should I try something different like: blue vanilla, melona, or shark’s blood! I went with POG and melona.

Mrs. Dirtboy was afraid this might be her last shave ice. I told her that there were many places she could find them in Honolulu. The closer to the beach the better chance she had to score one. The Dirt-Couple are heading over to Oahu for a few more days before heading home.

The afternoon conference calls kept Dirtboy busy. The rest of us napped and read until it was time for dinner.

We returned to Ko at the Kea Lani Resort. They’re renovating their old site and are due to reopen February 2012. I can’t wait to see their new digs.

The rice cake with crushed edameme arrived soon after we were shown to a table.

We ordered off their Sunset Menu: Oishi Sushi for me and “Lumpia” Filipino Spring Rolls for the other three.

I poked out all the sashimi (raw fish) and piled it on the sushi with the heaviest drizzle of aioli sauce and dropped it onto his plate along with my wasabi dish.

Entrée: Hubby and I ordered Pancit Noodles and Ko Fried Rice.

Dirtboy and the Mrs ordered “Paniolo” steak and the Macadamia nut crusted Makai Catch.

Dessert: I had the Plantation Pineapple Cake, the Boys ordered Wailua Estate Chocolate Baked Custard and Mrs. Dirtboy was adventurous with her German Chocolate Cake selection, which had little cake and some sort of coconut filling topped with chocolate covered Macadamia nuts.

Believe it or not . . .

WE'RE NOT READY TO GO HOME YET!