We tried out a new musubi (Japanese Rice Ball) shop that opened up on King Street. It's called Mana Bu's <-click for Google links. They specialize in creating hand made musubi and always inform you of the origin of each ingredient. It's not so specific as to the exact location of the ingredient, but it gives the distributor or brand of the ingredients. If you were really particular I guess you could research the rest of the origin from there.
We went on a Sunday at about 1130am. As you can see by their business hours sign they are only open in the mornings and until they run out of food. When we got there most of the items were sold out. I did get a good selection that I wanted to try. I had a 10 grain rice musubi with shiso, a veggie curry pilaf and a 10 grain rice hijiki (seaweed) musubi with some kimpira gobo on the side. Kelli had the brown rice takuan, 10 grains spicy ahi and a teri SPAM musubi.
Each item that we saw ran between about $1.20 to $2.00 for the food items. It was very attractively displayed; even though the shelves were almost bare it still looked irresistibly delicious. I could hardly resist eating them before arranging them for this photo!
We'll have to go back again some day, a lot earlier...
Friday night... we were invited to join in on a friend's cousin's birthday party at the W. Kind of just to keep Kelli's friend from being lonely. So we went. It also kind of marked the night just 4 years and 1 day prior that Kelli and I actually met there at the W. So it was kind of convenient for us to celebrate.
There wasn't any ridiculously long line to deal with even when we arrived at the door close to midnight. Thank goodness for that because 4 years ago, anytime after 11pm you would be spending the majority of the night standing in the line to be decoration along the wall.
Thanks Tara for getting us out of the house and into the club for a night of celebration. Here's a few pictures that are publicly postable from that night. I should say barely... =)
I went to the Splendor of China held at the Blaisedell Center during on 10/4. I wanted to watch the performance of this famous magician that changes his face masks multiple times, so fast that you can't figure out how he's doing it. I took some video, but it's kind of small so you can't see the mask changing. Oh well.
