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<title>Daily Smile: Wednesday, July 22, 2026</title>

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Daily Smile: Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Lopaka and Tanya Kapanui

Lopaka Kapanui and Tanya Kapanui

Hawai‘i History

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Prior to Western contact, the Waiākea Peninsula at the edge of Hilo Bay sustained a thriving Hawaiian community for generations. As Hilo gradually developed into an important port for the sandalwood trade, supply replenishment, and the whaling industry, the area began to change.

Although the traditional stewardship of the ʻaina ensured the loʻi kalo (taro fields) and the loko iʻa (fishponds) continued to provide food for the area, the peninsula slowly took on a different purpose. Then, the introduction of private ownership through the Great Mahele of 1848 forever changed how Waiākea would be managed.

With the expansion of Hilo Harbor, the wetlands were drained, and fishponds fell into disuse. To accommodate larger ships, the bay was dredged, and the fill from the bay was used to create new land along the shoreline. Ancient canoe landings disappeared beneath that newly created land, and much of the ceremonial landscape surrounding Kūakaʻananuʻu Heiau was erased. Roads, homes, and public buildings gradually spread across the shoreline, covering many of the features that had defined Waiākea for centuries.

Due to the harborʻs continued growth and change, today’s shoreline bears little resemblance to the one that greeted the first Western merchant vessels. During the early 1900s, a new public park was created to honor the last reigning monarch. Liliʻuokalani Gardens, with its walking paths, decorative bridges, and ornamental gardens replaced the loʻi kalo and loko iʻa, creating a space where residents and visitors could enjoy the shores of Hilo Bay.

In 1933, the Hilo Parks Commission invited director Cecil B. DeMille and other celebrities from the film "Four Frightened People" to plant banyan trees along a new roadway. Later that year, Babe Ruth planted a tree, and the road was formally designated the following year in time for a visit from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who planted his own tree. Over time, nearly 50 trees were planted by aviators, entertainers, politicians, and other notable visitors, and the Banyan Drive became known as “Hilo’s Walk of Fame.” In 1939, the Naniloa Hotel opened its doors on the site of a former yacht club, welcoming visitors to its tranquil location by the sea.

Like the rest of Hilo, the Waiākea Peninsula has had to face the destructive power of the sea. Tsunamis in 1946 and 1960 devastated the coast, destroying homes, businesses, and facilities along the waterfront. While many of the banyan trees survived, a new infrastructure once again reshaped the landscape and Banyan Drive soon became the center of Hilo’s visitor industry.

By the 1970s, Banyan Drive was already established as the center of Hilo’s visitor industry. The Naniloa and the new Hilo Hawaiian, along with other new hotels, welcomed travelers from around the world, while nearby golf courses, parks, and public spaces drew both residents and visitors to the bay.

Although centuries of development had transformed nearly every part of the peninsula, places like Mokuola (Coconut Island) continued to preserve a connection to an older Hawaiʻi. The landscape may look different from the days of loʻi kalo, loko iʻa, and Kūakaʻananuʻu Heiau, but its mana cannot be erased.

Perhaps that is why, despite decades of change, stories continue to emerge from Banyan Drive, describing experiences that seem to be connected to a long-lost past. Former staff have mentioned doors of empty rooms rattling for no reason, and housekeeping staff talk of the water faucets in one of the rooms turning on by itself.

However, the scariest stories are the ones about a group of visitors who turn up during specific moon phases, without reservations. One security guard said it starts with the sound of drums. It’s distant, but the sound is a consistent beat that doesn’t change like modern music. As the drums get louder, a mist appears on the building’s mauka side and moves through the wall and the hotel rooms, exiting through the wall on the opposite end of the building on their way to the ocean.

“I know it’s not my imagination,” he said. “The lights dim and flicker, pictures on the wall shake or fall to the floor, sometimes the furniture moves.”

The guard said that the employees at the hotel know to make themselves scarce during that time, but no one really talks about it with each other.

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<title>Night Marchers at the Naniloa</title>

Babe Ruth and President Franklin D. Roosevelt are among the Mainland luminaries who planted banyan trees along Banyan Drive. The history of the Hilo area surrounding the Naniloa Hotel goes back to ancient times, and as hotel staff tell it, on some nights the old days come marching through in a mist.

Night Marchers at the Naniloa

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Christian Shimabuku

Sports

 breezed through his obligatory appearances as the University of Hawai‘i's head football coach at 

. One by one, Chang completed sit-downs with the CW Network, CBS Sports and Fox Sports, walking inside one closed room to another at the Palms Casino Resort. 

During his five minutes in the NCAA photo room, one of the official photographers told Chang he had the most natural smile of all the head coaches, a compliment that was not empty considering Chang was the penultimate of the 10 to get his headshot taken. 

By now, Chang is used to all that comes with being a head coach. Next Wednesday, the Rainbow Warriors will open fall camp for Chang's fifth season at the helm of his alma mater. Of the 10 Mountain West head coaches, Chang is the second-longest tenured and is behind only Air Force's Troy Calhoun, who began his role in the 2007 season. 

A record-setting quarterback for Hawai‘i from 2000 to 2004, Chang's playing career ended in 2009 after brief NFL preseason stints, followed by two seasons in the CFL. His coaching career began in the spring of 2012 as Mililani High School's offensive coordinator. That fall, he departed to become a graduate assistant at SMU to work for his college head coach, June Jones. 

After stops at Jackson State, Emory & Henry and Nevada, Chang became the head coach for the first time when he landed the Hawai‘i job in January 2022. 

Chang had never coached at UH prior to 2022. Had it not been for a fateful decision two years earlier, that wouldn't have been the case. 

On Jan. 13, 2020, former Hawai‘i head coach Nick Rolovich departed the Islands to take the Washington State vacancy. Eight days later, embattled former Arizona State coach Todd Graham was named the new head coach at UH. 

When putting together his first coaching staff for the Rainbow Warriors, Graham offered Chang a position, which entailed coaching receivers and adding co-offensive coordinator to the title. 

At the time, Chang was at Nevada, coaching tight ends under Jay Norvell, who he still considers a mentor. To Chang, it didn't feel quite right at the time to leave what Norvell was building with the Wolf Pack. Chang and his family were happy in Reno, and they didn't believe it was time to go just yet. 

"I'm really fond of coach Jay Norvell, and very grateful to have him and be a part of his programs," Chang recently recalled to Aloha State Daily. "I wanted to stay with coach Norvell, and I ended up staying with coach."

Graham's coaching tree has been known to be robust, and his time with the 'Bows was no different. His initial staff featured current Texas State head coach GJ Kinne as his offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, as well as receivers coach Brennan Marion, who went on to become Sacramento State's head coach, then Colorado's offensive coordinator. After Chang said thanks but no thanks to Graham's offer, Tony Hull was named the co-offensive coordinator and inside receivers coach. Hull is now the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Alabama State.

"There was Brennan Marion on staff as well as GJ, and I was like, man, what if all three of us were on staff? How cool would that have been? But that says a lot about coach Graham and his eye for bringing in coaches and then developing coaches to be head coaches," Chang said.

Graham went 11-11 in his two seasons in Mānoa, resigning in the wake of an explosive senate hearing targeted towards him following a mass exodus of UH players via the NCAA transfer portal. Meanwhile, Chang initially followed Norvell to Colorado State following the 2021 season. But when his alma mater came calling, Norvell encouraged Chang to take the leap despite the circumstances. Chang went 3-10 in his first season in 2022, his staff forced to restock the initial roster with 53 newcomers. 

Chang and the Rainbow Warriors broke through with a 9-4 campaign in 2025, capped off by a 

comeback victory over California in the Hawai‘i Bowl

. Since then, Chang and UH athletics director Matt Elliott agreed in principle to a 

 that will keep him in Mānoa for years to come, as well as an increased salary pool for his assistant coaches. As part of the negotiations, Chang wanted to see the contract length in multiple assistant coaches go from one year to two. 

"That contract was was was about was about a couple things: I wanted to take care of our coaches and our staff because they and our players are the lifeline to this program, and so I wanted to make sure that they were taken care of," Chang said. "I wanted to make sure that we had stability, it was consistent, and that there's something that we can continue to build on and build something special that we could build for years to come. I just look at our program not just right now, but for the future of college football. We want to set ourselves up where we're constantly competing for conference championships."

As Chang settles into his seat for the long haul, perhaps it's a seat he wouldn't be in had things gone differently six and a half years ago. 

"Maybe I wouldn't have gotten this opportunity to be a (head) coach if I did take it," Chang said of Grahm's offer. "I don't know. Or, maybe it could have helped. But things happen for a reason, and we're very blessed and grateful."

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<title>Years later, fate leads Hawai‘i head football coach Timmy Chang back to his alma mater</title>

Fall camp for Chang's fifth season at the helm of his alma mater is set to begin next Wednesday, a role he may have not been in had it not been for a key decision years earlier.

Years later, fate leads Hawai‘i head football coach Timmy Chang back to his alma mater

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Stephanie Salmons

Government & Politics

The City and County of Honolulu says that a recently acquired Iwilei property advances the city's long-term plans to "assemble and revitalize" land around the future Kūwili Skyline station and support thousands of housing units in the area.

In a sale that closed on June 30, the city purchased 519 Ka‘aahi St. for $2.7 million. It marks "another important step on the city's coordinated effort to transform the Iwilei-Kapālama corridor into a vibrant, mixed-use , transit-connected neighborhood," a recent announcement from the city noted.

"That's a little property that's just down below this space behind us," Kevin Auger, director of the Honolulu Department of Housing and Land Management, said during a press conference last week at the city-owned Iwilei Center. "It's a small building but it has a significant impact, and the reason for that is it's one of the keys that is going to help us unlock our ability to deliver thousands of housing units on this space."

 the former First Hawaiian Bank building at 445 N. King St. for $8.4 million and in January 2024 it acquired the Iwilei Center for $51.5 million.

 says these acquisitions, which total nearly five acres of land, "will form the catalyst of its redevelopment and revitalization efforts around the Kūwili Rail Station in Iwilei, consistent with the Downtown TOD Neighborhood Plan."

Although a small acquisition, Auger says that the purchase of 519 Ka‘ahi is important to the city because it's the first acquisition "for the city to bring together the balance of this site."

Auger says the city is working to acquire several other properties in the vicinity, and after those sales close, "the city will own the majority of the land in this area and will have access to create connectivity to North King Street, which is very important."

"Over a couple of different phases, we intend to acquire the balance of the land in the area. ... This is very important to the city and it's very important to this community because transit-oriented development will fundamentally transform this area and provide thousands of units of housing."

Auger said the redevelopment of Iwilei Center will deliver 800 to 900 housing units on the four-acre site, and the city anticipates another 2,000 housing units in the area beyond, which also will include retail and commercial spaces. The broader redevelopment area encompasses about 17 acres.

"It's really going to be developing a community where you can live, work and play," he said.

, a Honolulu-based Native Hawaiian-owned strategy, planning and design firm — in partnership with Toronto-based 

 — to prepare a masterplan for the Kūwili Station Transit-Oriented Development redevelopment area.

That masterplanning work is underway now, Auger says, and goal is to have that finished by the end of the year he told ASD.

EAH Housing was selected late last year to redevelop 

The affordability and availability of housing has long been an issue across the Islands. Hawai‘i Housing Finance and Development Corp.'s 

, found that Hawai‘i needs an estimated 64,490 additional housing units by 2027 to meet demand. In Honolulu, 25,710 units are needed.

The city also has taken other steps to address the island's housing needs.

Partnering with the development community to build housing on city-owned lands is one component of the three-year 

Preferred negotiating partners have been selected for the redevelopment of a number of city-owned properties, including 

 for the redevelopment of the former Dee Lite Bakery site in Kalihi.

Located across from the future Mokauea Skyline station, the city acquired the property at 1907 Eluwene St. "as part of its long-term strategy to create affordable housing opportunities along the Dillingham corridor," DHLM said in an announcement last week.

In that announcement, the city said DHLM was set to begin environmental abatement of the site this week to prepare for demolition. Demolition is set to start the first week of August and is expected to last about two months, a recent announcement noted. All work will happen during standard construction hours, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

R.H.S. Lee, Inc. will perform the demolition and Unitek Insulation will conduct the environmental abatement work.

More recently, the city in April closed on a 

 to expand housing opportunities within the city's urban core.

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<title>Iwilei acquisition advances Honolulu's long-term housing strategy</title>

The city purchased 519 Ka‘aahi St. for $2.7 million in a sale that closed June 30. City leaders say its one of the keys that will help them unlock thousands of housing units in the area.

Iwilei acquisition advances Honolulu's long-term housing strategy

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Michael Brestovansky

People skeptical of the new design of the Hawai‘i driver’s license should “get used to it,” said Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi on Tuesday.

 the first new design for driver’s licenses and state ID cards in 17 years. While reactions to the new design were mixed, Blangiardi said Tuesday that the change brings Hawai‘i's IDs “well into” the 21st Century with new security features.

In a presentation at the mayor’s office on Tuesday, Kim Hashiro, director of the Honolulu Department of Customer Services, explained that the new design features several fraud-prevention measures that cannot be seen with the unaided eye, and even more that can.

The first thing new cardholders will likely notice will be new materials. Previous cards were “paper and glue,” Hashiro said, explaining that they could be easily reproduced by fraudsters using a copy machine and a laminator. The new cards, however, are “100% polycarbonate,” Hashiro said, which, on a practical level, means they won’t be prone to peeling like previous cards.

Hashiro and other DCS staff noted that the polycarbonate cards also make a distinctive sound when dropped compared to the laminated cards.

The designs on the cards also conceal complicated patterns that are difficult for counterfeiters to replicate: for example, instead of easily replicable lines, some patterns contain “microtext,” minuscule text phrases that include the state motto and the names of all the Hawaiian islands. The outlines of the islands themselves can also be seen within the rainbow pattern of the license, on close inspection.

The cards are printed using “split-fountain inking,” Hashiro said, a technique allowing for color gradients that she said will be difficult for counterfeiters to replicate without specialized equipment.

Even if a fraudster could replicate all these measures, they would have a harder time duplicating the holograms only visible under ultraviolet light on either side of the cards, or the concealed “Reveal Plus” data embedded in the card’s secondary portrait — including the holder’s birthdate, county name and the card’s expiration year — or the raised text and patterns on the cards’ surface, or the partly translucent edges of the card.

Hashiro added that the black-and-white portraits on the cards allow for sharper images of the subject.

Despite the increased detail of the cards, Hashiro said the cost of getting a new license will not change, and the time to get a new card will actually be reduced to about four to five weeks instead of the previous six to eight.

Blangiardi said the cards were designed on the principle: “What if we could produce the most secure, most fraud-resistant card in the world?” He added that Hashiro visited with security printing groups in Poland to develop the techniques used on the cards.

Identity theft is more common than ever, Blangiardi said, adding that he wants to protect Hawai‘i residents from falling prey to scammers.

And as for the design, Blangiardi recommended that residents embrace change.

“I like the design!” Blangiardi said, before laughing: “If you don’t like it … get used to it!”

The new licenses are available now, although holders of older cards will not need to replace theirs until their printed expiration dates.

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<title>"Get used" to new driver's licenses, says Blangiardi</title>

New state ID cards brimming with anti-fraud features.

"Get used" to new driver's licenses, says Blangiardi

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A. Kam Napier

I have to tell you a short story about Minnesota before I can tell you something about Hawai‘i. Sit tight for some unpleasant details.

It starts with Tou Lue Vang, from Laos, who was at one point legally living in the United States, in Minnesota. Vang went on to behave terribly while here. He was convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual assault for repeatedly molesting a 10-year-old girl over two years, from 2002 to 2004, 

 the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

“He once offered his victim $10 to keep quiet about the sexual assaults,” DHS said. “When interviewed by police, he tried to justify his actions as ‘a cultural thing

’ and even said that his victim was just as guilty as him and should also be arrested.”

These actions cost Vang his right to be in the United States. On Oct. 31, 2006, a Department of Justice Immigration Judge ordered that he be removed.

 the Center for Immigration Studies, Laos refused to take back its deported citizens until 2025, until it finally relented under pressure from the United States.

According to DHS, ICE arrested and detained Vang in December but by then, Minnesota was in full meltdown over immigration enforcement and in February, a District of Minnesota judge ordered him released from custody.

That wasn't only the ally Vang found. At some point he applied for a pardon, in hopes that wiping his record clean would eliminate the reason ICE was coming after him for deportation, as reported by 

That pardon was granted, in a unanimous decision. In Minnesota, such pardons are granted by a three-person panel: 

 (D), and nominally non-partisan Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice 

This was widely seen as an extension of Minnesota’s sanctuary state policies, done out of spite to frustrate Trump and ICE.

On July 14, media asked Walz about the deportation and he had the audacity to question the 

 motive for removing a convicted child molester.

. “Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable? Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?”

On question 1: Yeah, it did. Vang's conviction disqualified him from staying here, that’s the law. He only evaded it because Laos didn’t want him back.

Question 2: Walz is possibly, obliquely referring to Vang’s own children. What is the logic here? Our prisons are full of natural born American citizens who are separated from their children by incarceration and no one sane goes around saying, “Wait, we can’t put people in prison for molesting children! Doing so destabilizes their children!” If it's a tragedy for Vang and his family, it's one he wrote himself.

Question 3: It’s possible the syntax of this one is so garbled and awkward because some tiny voice in Walz’s head is second-guessing what’s he’s saying. No one likes to be judged by their worst day. OK. Fair enough. For most people, their worst days do not include serially molesting a 10-year old over two years. But Walz’s inner sociopath smacked down his last sensible neuron and he said this ludicrous thing anyway.

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You might not know this, but Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was the guest of honor as keynote speaker at the Hawai‘i Democratic Party’s state convention in Waikīkī at the end of May. 

“Walz … brought the nearly 400 party delegates and guests to their feet several times at the Hilton Hawaiian Village ballroom,” 

 Civil Beat, covering the convention on May 31. “He got a lot of whoops and shout-outs, too, by calling Trump a ‘corrupt, petty, cruel wannabe dictator’ and ‘a pile of crap.’”

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Surely, the local invitation predated Walz’s bizarre defense of an illegal immigrant child molester. But local Dems had plenty of facts before them at the time that Walz had stepped forward to defend, categorically, every convicted criminal in Minnesota that ICE had gone in to arrest. Surely, they were aware that they were inviting, with honors, a man who presided over a state government that 

 for as much a billion dollars’ worth of fraud across multiple social programs. Surely, they could’ve known that in January, Minnesota lawmakers accused Walz and his administration of retaliating against whistleblowers about this fraud, thereby enabling it.

Surely, they remembered that Walz himself withdrew his re-election attempt in light of these many scandals.

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I've been meaning to write this ever since the convention happened, but news about Walz just kept evolving and I wanted to see where his latest escapades would go. Now that this Vang chapter is over, I have same question I had in May: If he’s the role model for the party going forward, what does that mean for the future of Hawai‘i?

What does that tell us about who they serve? Local interests and concerns? Or, as we saw with 

 just fully colonized by Mainland politics and priorities?

The party is running on fumes of nostalgia for when it was sensible and stood for the betterment of people right here in the Islands. But the party of serious people like Burns, Ariyoshi, Inouye and countless others — sober, responsible — seems intent on following the pied pipers of Act Blue, Indivisible, and the Democratic Socialists of America, straight into insanity.

Based on historic voting patterns, there’s a good chance if you’re reading this that this your party. You’ve voted for it all your life. You likely always will. Anything but cast a vote for those icky Republicans! If so, please do everyone in the Islands a favor: Get involved, and knock some sense into your people. If Walz is their idea of an accomplished statesman, an example to cheer on and follow behind, they need an intervention.

A. Kam Napier is editor in chief of Aloha State Daily. His opinions in Pipikaula Corner are his own and not reflective of the ASD team.

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<title>Pipikaula Corner: The company they keep</title>

Hawai‘i Democrats invited a special Mainland guest to their annual convention in late May, as keynote speaker. If this is their role model, ASD Editor in Chief A. Kam Napier opines, Hawai‘i is in trouble.

Pipikaula Corner: The company they keep

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Kelli Shiroma Braiotta

Food & Dining

“You have to get the scallop pot pie,” says Pomaikai Shishido, owner of Kakaʻako-based 

It’s the first day of the eatery’s new dinner menu. Chef Chai still features signature dishes like miso black cod, grilled beef tenderloin, vegetable terrine and fresh ‘ahi tartare with avocado mousse — which come in mini waffle cones — but the restaurant added customer favorites to its menu.

“We added things from either Chai’s Island Bistro days — when it was at Aloha Tower — or his cookbook, or wine dinner favorites,” Shishido says. “Usually, for our wine dinners, we don’t serve the same item twice but we serve this one (the scallop pot pie) three times already. People like it.

“The menu is never the same for our wine dinners; it’s (the dishes) paired specifically to the wines,” he adds.

The new dishes are the result of customer feedback, according to Shishido. 

The scallop pot pie — a medley of onions, baby carrots, scallops, spinach and sweet potato gnocchi — is served piping hot and topped with a housemade puff pastry.

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The hamachi crudo appetizer comes with yuzu ponzu sauce and is garnished with scallions, watermelon radish, cucumber and jalapeno. Meanwhile, the wok-fried jumbo black tiger prawns ($45) includes Thai chili-ginger sauce over stir-fried vegetables; Shishido notes that this was a favorite at Chai’s Island Bistro.

The restaurant always featured a crispy whole fish with chili ginger sauce, but now it’s available in three different styles. Customers can choose from chili ginger sauce, steamed Chinese style or spicy Thai style. The latter features a Southeast Asian-style sauce, which is sweet, tangy and spicy. The eatery also added Chef Chai-style cioppino ($60), which features a twist on the traditional seafood stew. It includes shrimp, fish, scallops, Manila clams and corn, along with housemade garlic bread.

“It’s a little different because it’s a lemongrass coconut milk broth instead of a clear broth,” Shishido explains.

He also notes that the “curries, rice and noodles” section of the menu — with choices like yellow, green and red vegetable curries, pineapple fried rice and Chef Chai’s garlic noodles — is a new option. The dishes in this section are all $25 or less.

“People think that Chai’s is super expensive,” says Shishido, who explains this section is the eatery’s response to creating more takeout-friendly dishes.

The green vegetable curry ($25) is a Thai green coconut curry with Thai basil and Island vegetables. Meanwhile, Chef Chai’s garlic noodles ($22) — a popular recipe from his cookbook — features green onions, cilantro and garlic, cooked in garlic oil. 

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New desserts include the poached pear melba ($17), vanilla crème brulee ($12) and bruleed banana with pandan sticky rice ($15).

The poached pear melba consists of vanilla ice cream and a poached pear sandwiched between puff pastry layers, topped with roasted almonds, and a raspberry guava puree.

“The pear melba used to be at Chef Chai’s Island Bistro; we’re bringing it back,” Shishido says. “The kitchen was making a few of the dishes from the Aloha Tower days; this was my favorite.

“Because the restaurant is Thai inspired, we wanted to do a pandan sticky rice,” he adds. “We wanted to do something different from a mango, so we did a bruleed banana instead."

Chef Chai also recently launched a new happy hour, available from 4 to 6 p.m. at the bar and patio from Wednesdays to Fridays. Customers can enjoy a variety of signature pūpū and small plates, ranging from steamed Manila clams ($18) and Hurricane fries ($10) — the eatery’s twist on Hurricane popcorn — to mini oxtail ramen ($25) and 1-800 hotline wings ($18). The latter is spicy, according to Shishido; customers can choose from chicken tenders or wings served with mango coleslaw.

Open 4-9:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 4-10 p.m. Thursdays to Sundays, closed Mondays and Tuesdays

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<title>Chef Chai just launched a new menu</title>

The Kakaʻako eatery recently updated its menu based on customer feedback. Diners can now find a variety of dishes that were popular at Chai’s Island Bistro — when the eatery was at Aloha Tower — and favorites from the its monthly wine dinners.

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