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Food & Dining

Father’s Day is coming up Sunday, June 21. Whether dad wants a buffet, steak or seafood, check out the following options:

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: Prince Waikīkī, 100 Holomoana St. 3rd Floor, Honolulu

: The Father’s Day dinner buffet costs $109 per adult ($54.50 for children ages 6 to 10 years old). Highlights include:

The brunch buffet costs $111 per adult ($55.50 for children ages 6 to 10 years old). It includes similar offerings with brunch additions like a waffle station and toppings and an omelet station.

: June 18-21 dinner buffet from 5 to 9 p.m.; June 21 brunch buffet from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 

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: Leilehua Golf Course, 199 Leilehua Golf Course Road, Wahiawā

: This Father’s Day brunch buffet costs $60 per adult ($25 per child, children ages 3 years and under have free admission).

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: The Father’s Day brunch buffet costs $98 per adult ($49 per child ages 6 to 12 years old).

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: This three-course dining experience costs $90 per person. It includes:

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: This all-you-can-eat lobster buffet costs $139 per person (50% off for children under 10 years old). The buffet will include:

: June 20 and 21; dinner seatings at 4, 4:30, 7 and 7:30 p.m.; Sunday brunch at 9 and 9:30 a.m., 12 and 12:30 p.m. 

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: This Father’s Day brunch buffet costs $140 per adult ($105 for seniors ages 65 years and older, $65 for children ages 6 to 12 years; children ages 5 years and under have free admission).

A 20% service charge will be added for groups of eight individuals or more. 

: June 21; brunch from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., last seating at 1 p.m. 

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: This special Father’s Day celebration box costs $35 until June 13 (it’s $38 from June 14 to 18). It includes strawberry mochi; ‘ahi katsu; washugyu vegetable roll; garlic shrimp; edamame, unagi, salmon and hijiki rice; steamed vegetables; vegetable kakiage tempura; fried gyoza and an avocado mentaiko omelet. 

: Orders must be picked up before June 21

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: Royal Hawaiian Center, 2201 Kalākaua Ave., Honolulu 

: This Father’s Day meal costs $99.99 for two people. It includes:

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: The Kāhala Hotel & Resort, 5000 Kāhala Ave., Honolulu

: This buffet costs $137 per adult ($55 per child ages 6 to 12 years) and will take place in the Plumeria Beach House restaurant and Maile room. Customers can look forward to carving stations, fresh seafood, chef specialties and desserts. 

: June 21, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., 5:30 to 8 p.m. 

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: The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikīkī Beach, 383 Kalaimoku St., Honolulu

: This Father’s Day brunch buffet costs $125 per adult ($75 for seniors ages 65 years and older, $60 for children ages 6 to 12 years, children 5 years and under have free admission).

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A two-hour dining period will be enforced. 

: June 21; brunch from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., last seating at 1 p.m. 

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: Hyatt Regency Waikīkī Beach Resort & Spa, 2424 Kalākaua Ave., Honolulu

: This Father’s Day brunch buffet costs $110 per person ($55 for children ages 6 to 12 years, $5.99 per child ages 5 years and under).

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The eatery’s kamaʻāina discount is not applicable for the Father’s Day buffet. There will be a 90-minute dining time limit. 

: June 21; seatings at 9:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m.; 12 and 1:30 p.m. 

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: Royal Hawaiian Center, 2201 Kalākaua Ave. A-307, Honolulu

: Customers who celebrate Father’s Day at Tim Ho Wan Waikiki will receive a complimentary dessert (inquire with servers). If you purchase a $100 gift card, you’ll receive a $20 coupon for your next visit. 

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: The Father’s Day dinner buffet costs $129 per adult ($74 for children ages 4 to 9 years).

The buffet will also feature live music entertainment. 

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: Royal Hawaiian Center, 2301 Kalākaua Ave., Honolulu

: This Father’s Day special costs $155 per person. It includes a glass of red wine, Wolfgang’s signature extra-thick slice of bacon, and 24 to 26-ounce prime bone-in rib-eye steak with mashed potatoes and creamed spinach. 

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Aloha Spirit

Dr. Ira D. Zunin described the moments he’ll miss most about his clinic.

“It’s usually earlier in the morning when the sun is coming through the window. There’s gentle music playing and the clinic is full of activity [from] physical therapists, acupuncturists, massage therapists, sleep medicine specialists, psychologists, all our other medical providers – and just that feeling of joy in my heart. That this is the best thing that I could do with this little life that I have.”

Zunin recently announced plans to retire next month after 36 years practicing medicine.  

Since 2002, he has served as medical director of 

Manakai O Malama Integrative Healthcare Group and Rehabilitation Center

 in Honolulu, which he founded alongside his wife, Alia Zunin, an acupuncturist. 

Together, the pair raised their son Brandon primarily in the clinic.

“We were able to strike an excellence balance,” Ira Zunin said about working with family. “And interestingly enough, our son regards the clinic as a sibling. He grew up there and feels like Manakai O Malama is a family member. He was 5 when we started and today is a biomedical engineer shifting into medicine.”

Zunin, who has spent most of his life in Hawaiʻi, enjoys going on medical missions with his family to help advance health care in remote areas in Asia.

He says as a teenager he was introduced to the idea of whole-person health that brings together modern medicine and traditional healing, while on a trip to India and Nepal.

“The vision really struck me; later, in my undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, I ran courses for westerners to learn Tibetan medicine. Such traditional systems of medicine have so much to offer. But modern medicine is wonderful, too, and we're saving lives. … So, to bring them together in a skillful, collaborative, intentional way, I thought would be the best way to practice.”

Zunin noted that nearly one million patients have been treated at Manakai O Malama, which offers services including sleep and brain wellness, Food as Medicine, mental and behavioral health, weight loss and more.

“Our goal is to create a medical home so that people can come bring their families,” he said. “It’s multi-generational, and it’s all customized, but not necessarily complex. We treat very common illnesses in a no-frills way, and we have the capacity and range to tackle patients with multiple injuries.”

He added: “We treat some of the sickest and complex patients that other facilities just can’t handle. We’ve managed a tremendous range of patients from a socioeconomic standpoint ... really trying to tailor the treatment to what is needed. So, we do it all.”

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Today’s health care system is in the worst crisis we’ve ever seen, according to Zunin.

“Our large carriers, hospitals and small practices are having difficulties,” he continued. “So, many people are questioning why we’re spending twice as much as any other modern country on health care.

“I think the practitioners who have the most challenges are the independent primary care practices – the smaller they are, the more difficult is. And they’re just falling like flies. … It’s very difficult to make ends meet.”

, Hawaiʻi is short 833 full-time equivalent doctors, with the largest gaps on the Neighbor Islands.

Navigating the health insurance industry can be another headache, he added; however, despite the challenges, he said he would do it all over again.

“It’s the most rewarding and gratifying thing that I could imagine doing,” Zunin said.

Some bright spots he’s seen in the industry are innovations in neuroscience, weight loss medicine and cancer treatment, among others.

His advice for up-and-coming doctors is: “There’s a world to learn and it takes time. For me, this is really a sacred art. It’s a gift to be able to care for people who are suffering in some way. Never lose sight of that. Our motivation ought to be to do our best for who is in front of us.”

From his time spent teaching, his advice to medical students is to fall back on the conventional training fundamentals. “And a lot of interpersonal and transpersonal skills.”

Immediate sale of business & future plans

Zunin’s decision to step down as medical director of Manakai O Malama is “still sinking in,” he said.

But his hope is that the practice would evolve under new leadership.

t really is integrative medicine: a living, breathing dynamic enterprise. 

We’ve had multiple buyers of interest,” he noted. “My dream and my prayer is that this kind of medicine can move forward. That access [to care] won’t be curtailed ... My top priority is to find a party that is prepared to take it over, and we're prepared to make it easy to take over. This is not about making a killing financially. But rather carrying this forward as a a sustainable operation for future generations."

Any party with immediate interest may contact Zunin directly at 

. He plans to select a buyer in the coming days.

In retirement, Zunin plans to continue traveling, conducting research, offering concierge medicine, and remaining engaged with this transition. This summer, he is looking forward to teaching martial arts in Ireland and collecting data on lucid dreams in Bhutan, where he previously helped establish a medical school and taught its first classes.  

“I would love to practice medicine up until my last breath,” he said, adding, “This has been a challenging decision, but an exciting one."

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<title>Physician Ira Zunin seeks successor for clinic in Honolulu</title>

Zunin, the medical director at Manakai O Malama Integrative Healthcare Group and Rehabilitation Center along Ala Moana Boulevard, founded the integrative health care practice in 2002 with wife and acupuncturist, Alia Zunin. With hopes of semi-retiring by the end of May, he is looking for the next person or entity to take over the facility and continue “to move this kind of medicine forward.”

Physician Ira Zunin seeks successor for clinic in Honolulu

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Sports

Lanikai Canoe Club won its seventh consecutive O‘ahu Hawaiian Canoe Racing Association championship regatta title at Ke‘ehi Lagoon on Sunday afternoon, continuing its recent dominance in local competition.

Of the 46 OHCRA events on Sunday, Lanikai medaled in 37 of them, winning 20. Lanikai Canoe Club head coach Scott Freitas credited his organization's success to his coaching staff, which covers a bevy of age groups and skill levels. 

"Our success is predicated behind the coaching staff," Freitas told Aloha State Daily on Sunday. "You're as good as the people that you coach, and you're as good as the people that you have coaching. For me, over the years, I've created a coaching staff where I don't really have to monitor them as much, but like sometimes I'll come up to them, 'OK, you need to work on this.' It just makes my job so much easier as the head coach, to have people to rely on to coach, and I've had the same coaching staff for years, and then I'll start grooming new coaches. And that's the key. 

"When your numbers are really big, you got to have the right people. One thing I always talk about is you can never have too many coaches in any sport that you coach. We have a lot of off season workouts that we do, and each division has their own program that they run, and they just stick to it, and it's gonna pay off in the end."

Age divisions as young as 10 and under and as experienced as 70 and up took part in Sunday's all-day event. 

Even Freitas himself competed for Lanikai's men's 60 masters team, one of the rare Lanikai crews that did not take home gold. Healani Canoe Club won that race with a time of 3:46.54, edging out Lanikai's time of 3:49.41. 

"That race, because it was such a dog fight you'll do a race that takes three and a half to four minutes, and when you're done, you're so exhausted," Freitas, 64, said. "It felt like you did like a 10 or 20 minute race, because you exert so much energy in such a short period of time. You just draw every emotion you can. You gotta wish for it, you gotta want it. Then you have to take it. That's basically pushing and what sprint racing does. It's tough."

Up next for Lanikai is the HCRA State Championship Regatta on Aug. 2 in Maui. 

Lanikai has won five consecutive state championships but knows they're going to be up for a formidable challenge, especially as a road crew. 

"Through the last 20 years of canoe paddling, it's pretty much been us and Maui and Maui is gonna really be up for this after the Maui wildfires. They're gonna have all the emotion on their side," Freitas said. "Years back, we were the hunters. Now we're the hunted after being five-time defending state champions, everybody's gonna come for us. We have to realize that the target is on our back. We just got to hold it off as long as we can. Streaks are meant to come to an end, right? Everything gets broken. I just hope that we can hold on to win it again. Maui is like the hardest place to win."

Dozens of teams, their families and their supporters made up for the thousands gathered at Ke‘ehi on Sunday, serving as another reminder of why many compete in the first place. 

"This is our state sport, and more people need to recognize it that way. Canoe paddling originated in Hawai‘i, right? It's the state sport," Freitas said. "My dad, all his brothers, they paddled in the in the olden days of the ’50s for Waikīkī Surf Club, and I just try to keep the tradition on. Then I have my kids following in my footsteps, my grandkids. My granddaughter just started paddling last year. The generations of canoe paddlers just taking care and being part of the culture, it really means a lot to a lot of the Hawaiian people."

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