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My Favorite Local Saying

"I grew up in Honolulu, and whenever I see or hear someone use this saying it make laugh or smile," said former Honolulu resident 

Sharri Hogan of San Juan Capistrano, California.

 defines "Try wait" as an idiom meaning please wait a moment; hold on; give me a second. ex: 

To submit your Favorite Local Saying, visit us 

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Hilo's Yolanda Keehne shares a few of her favorite pidgin words, including "gadut," "hamajang" and “huli-maka-flip."

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My favorite local saying: Hard for pick just one

Former Oʻahu resident Jack Edwards shares how "Broke da mouth" made good fun with friends and food in the Islands.

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My favorite local saying: 'Broke da mouth'

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“Try wait!” makes former Honolulu resident Sharri Hogan smile every time.

My favorite local saying: 'Try wait!'

&quot;I grew up in Honolulu, and whenever I see or hear someone use this saying it make laugh or smile,&quot; said former Honolulu resident Sharri Hogan of San Juan Capistrano, California. The Hawaiʻi Pidgin Dictionary defines &quot;Try wait&quot; as an idiom meaning please wait a moment; hold on; give me a second. ex: &quot;Try wait, almos pau.&quot; To submit your Favorite Local Saying, visit us online or email: general@alohastatedaily.com.

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Kelli Shiroma Braiotta

Food & Dining

 just opened in Kalihi, in the former space of Guieb Cafe’s Kalihi location.

The business has been open in Mānoa for about 17 years, according to chef Sergio Arellano. The biz has another location within the 

While business owner/chef Sergio Arellano says he wasn’t necessarily looking for another location, he thought the opportunity to open in Kalihi would be beneficial for customers.

“I’m excited to bring our delicious food to this side of town,” he says. “Plenty of people always say, ‘It’s hard to drive out to Mānoa,’ so I figured, maybe Kalihi will be more central for a lot more people. That’s what really pushed me to come to Kalihi.”

He says the Kalihi store came together in about one and a half months; the Kalihi location celebrated its grand opening on Nov. 1.

The menu is the same at all three locations, according to Arellano, who says his restaurant features family recipes and describes his cuisine as “Mexico City-style.” The restaurant offers a variety of tacos, burritos and sopes, along with house specialties like its famous flautas ($16.95) and enchiladas ($16.95-$17.95).

“The flautas are our signature dish; it’s a traditional dish from where my family’s from, Mexico City,” Arellano says. “It’s a popular dish in Mexico City; the flautas are our homemade flour tortillas. We stuff them with your choice of meat and we fry it to a golden brown, then top it off with our fresh-made avocado salsa, sour cream, queso fresco, cilantro and onions. We serve it with rice and beans.”

Sopes ($16.95), meanwhile, feature masa (corn) cakes with a choice of meat. They’re topped with beans, sour cream, queso fresco, cilantro and onions.

“Sopes is a very traditional Mexican dish,” Arellano says. “We fry these — they’re very delicate — to a golden brown. We top it off with homemade beans; sopes come with any meat you want. Customers can mix it up as well, and get one steak, one chicken and one chorizo.

“These are all family recipes,” he adds. “There are some I created myself, but for the most part, it’s my grandma’s, mom’s and dad’s recipes.”

Arellano says the eatery’s garlic shrimp plate ($18.95) — available in traditional garlic, garlic cilantro-lime or chipotle garlic — and chimichanga ($16.95-$17.95) are customer favorites. The latter features a 12-inch deep-fried flour tortilla stuffed with beans and rice, along with a choice of chicken or steak, pork carnitas, al pastor or sauteed veggies. It’s topped with sour cream, and served with guacamole or pico de gallo.

The business’s Mexico City-style tacos ($5.50-$6.50 each) and burritos ($16.95-$17.95) include a choice of protein, ranging from chorizo, pork carnitas and grilled chicken to grilled steak, al pastor and sauteed veggies. Tacos are usually served on grilled, 6-inch corn tortillas, and are topped with cilantro and onions. Burritos are stuffed with guacamole and pico de gallo, and come with beans and rice.

“Pork carnitas and steak are popular, but al pastor or carnitas would probably be our top two (proteins),” Arellano says.

Customers can also choose from housemade salsas, available in mild, medium, hot and super hot levels.

On the weekends from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Serg’s Mexican Kitchen serves Mexican breakfast. The breakfast menu includes dishes like huevos rancheros ($13.95), breakfast burritos ($13.95-$16.95), omelets ($11.95-$13.95), menudo, or traditional Mexican tripe soup ($13.95) and machaca, or scrambled eggs with shredded beef ($13.95).

“Anything you try on the menu, you will not be disappointed,” Arellano says.

Open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays to Fridays, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays

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The business, which has been open in Mānoa for about 17 years, just opened its third location in Kalihi. The biz celebrated its grand opening yesterday; the menu is the same at all three locations, according to chef Sergio Arellano, who says the eatery’s enchiladas, birria tacos and chimichangas are especially popular.

Serg’s Mexican Kitchen just opened in Kalihi

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Christian Shimabuku

Sports

As much as the University of Hawai‘i soccer team would have loved a win for its nine seniors on Sunday, a 2-2 draw against New Mexico was just as meaningful, clinching a spot for the Rainbow Wahine in the four-team Mountain West Conference tournament. 

After Sunday's result, with all 11 Mountain West teams having one contest remaining, the 'Bows are in 

 with 19 points. Hawai‘i will wrap up its regular season at Wyoming on Nov. 7 and can be seeded anywhere from 2 to 4 for the Mountain West tournament, which runs form Nov. 11-14 in Phoenix. 

Following a 2-1 loss to UNLV on Wednesday, the Rainbow Wahine avoided another letdown on Sunday with a pair of clutch goals from 

Jordyn Eldredge Sagapolutele and Anuhea Aluli. 

New Mexico got on the board first on Sunday with Presley Devey's goal in the sixth minute, an advantage the Lobos carried into the halftime break despite four shots on goal from the Rainbow Wahine. 

Eldredge Sagapolutele's goal off New Mexico defender Morgan Juran's foot in the 71st minute prompted a celebration that was short-lived, as Alysa Whelchel got the Lobos back on the board 49 seconds later. 

After New Mexico resorted to classic stalling tactics, such as its goalkeeper laying on the ball for five seconds and forcing the referee to count down from five when the ball was in her hands, the Rainbow Wahine broke through the Lobo barrier with Aluli's strike in the 78th minute. 

Despite not getting the result it wanted, UH can live with the result it needed for now. 

"I kind of got after them a little bit at the end of the game because I told them that they were like a cat and their nine lives — we're getting really close there to the end," Hawai‘i head coach Michele Nagamine joked afterwards. "All we needed to do was put away some of the sitters. I know that's the hardest part of the game, but we created opportunity after opportunity, and we didn't put it away. Fortunately for us, we had some some really gritty individual performances. I thought Anu's goal was one of the best goals I've seen all season."

Aluli's goal was her eighth of the season, extending her team lead. Considering the degree of difficulty, as well as the circumstances of the goal and how it clinched the Rainbow Wahine a spot in the conference tournament, she called it her favorite of the year thus far. 

I think that has been my favorite goal so far," Aluli said after the senior day festivities, which left her covered in lei. 

Both teams ended Sunday's contests with eight shots on goal. For Hawai‘i, two time defending Mountain West Defensive Player of the Week Kennedy Justin had six saves, including two that appeared to be clear goals until she came swooping in. 

"She's been exceptional all year long, and by the time it gets to her, it's gone through everybody else. What Kennedy did today was she kept us in the game, and that's all we ever ask of our goalkeepers," Nagamine said. 

Nine seniors were honored as part of senior day festivities on Sunday in 

Aluli, Eldredge Sagapolutele, Justin, Izzy Ayala, Leila Kahoano, Izzy Palmatier

Zoe Park, Tatum Porter and Alohi Ramos. Of the nine, Justin has already committed to returning for a fifth year in 2027. 

The senior class has led us in so many different ways this year, and just the example that they set, the standard of excellence that they they put for us — I mean, they put the bar really, really high," Nagamine said. "So, after the game when I kind of got on them, I don't feel bad about it because they're capable of so much more and it's how you build accountability. They are so much better than what we showed today. But we repeatedly found ways to get results when we're not even playing our best. So, I just want to put everything together at the same time, but yeah, credit to our seniors for just really leading us through so much emotion. It's been phenomenal."

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The Rainbow Wahine rallied from a pair of deficits to walk away with a 2-2 draw against New Mexico on Sunday afternoon.

Hawai‘i clinches spot in Mountain West tournament after salvaging tie on senior day

De Soto 2025

DeSoto Brown

Hawai‘i History

Columnists

From March to July of 1961, Victoria Ward Ltd. — owner of more than 60 acres in Kaka‘ako — announced a new master plan for its property, along with the first substantial structure that was to be part of this redevelopment.

This plan called for the Ward property along Ala Moana Boulevard from Queen Street to Ward Avenue to eventually be the site of six highrise buildings of seven or more stories, various lowrise buildings of up to four stories, and several parking structures of at least two stories to be randomly intermingled. Mauka of this, extending up to Queen Street would be short office buildings facing Ward Avenue and Kamakee Street and light industrial structures and warehouses filling in the rest.

The new IBM Building at 1240 Ala Moana Boulevard would be the first structure of this master plan, which actually was never fully realized. Although it was named for the main commercial tenant which leased it, the building was developed by Victoria Ward in reality. It stood seven stories tall, including the penthouse which served as an employee lounge. In total there were 61,961 square feet of space and the estimated cost would be $1.5 million ($16.5 million in todayʻs dollars). Victoria Ward would occupy half of the sixth floor while IBM took the first two floors; the company then had 90 employees in Hawai‘i but it’s not known how many of these would be moved into this new home. Parking directly around the building would accommodate 70 vehicles but 250 more could be parked in the near vicinity, which at that time included open land along with used car lots.

One unexpected aspect of the IBM Building’s construction was very much a response to the world’s international situation at the time. In 1961 the United States and the USSR were still engaged in what was called the Cold War; a standoff between the two superpowers which were trying to promote their respective economic and political systems in different countries while competing with, and maneuvering against, each other. This competition saw both nations arming themselves with quantities of nuclear missiles aimed at the other, with the worrying threat of a catastrophic atomic war seemingly always possible. As the IBM Building’s construction was in its early stages in October 1961, it was proposed to add an underground nuclear shelter beneath its parking lot with a capacity of 300 people, but this was soon dropped partly because of the abundant ground water not far below the surface which would complicate the project. Ironically, one year after this would come the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the USA discovered that Russian nuclear missiles had been installed in Cuba. This led to a short but extremely intense period in which the United States imposed a military “quarantine” in the ocean around the island to prevent Russian ships from bringing in more armaments, and the potential for atomic war was frighteningly close. But the USSR backed down, war was averted, and the lack of a large shelter under the IBM Building turned out to not be a problem — fortunately.

The lead architect for the IBM Building was Vladimir Ossipoff, who by this time had established himself as probably Hawaii’s leading modern designer. Ossipoff had been born in Russia but then had moved with his family to Japan as a child, where his father was stationed in the Russian embassy. After the Russian monarchy was overthrown in 1917 the family never returned to their homeland and immigrated to the United States in 1923. Vladimir attended high school and college in California and after graduating with an architectural degree in the early 1930s during the Depression, moved to Hawaii where he was able to get a job. His career had grown steadily since then.

Ossipoff equipped the IBM Building with a remarkable exterior composed of concrete elements that he designed, and which were then manufactured locally before being installed. These formed what’s called a “brise soleil,” a French term for a sunshade, which still serve to reduce the glare of direct sunlight through large windows while also cutting cooling costs. Unique to just this single structure, the visually-striking concrete grille was more economical than one fabricated of metal, costing $3.50 per square foot vs $5 for the metal version. Many years later, Ossipoff’s business partner said the design for this exterior covering had been inspired by the appearance of what had been called “punch cards,” which were paper cards then used by IBM computers to carry information. These were well-known for having random patterns of rectangular holes that had been stamped into them.

In 2002, Victoria Ward Ltd, still a family-owned company, sold its Kaka‘ako property for $250 million to General Growth, which was an American real estate investment firm that specialized in owning and operating shopping centers. Its justification for the Kaka‘ako purchase was to possess and run Ward Warehouse and Ward Centre, the two shopping complexes located on this land. Six years later, in 2008, General Growth announced its own master plan for this land which called for the demolition of the IBM Building and pretty much everything else on the former Ward lands beginning in 2010.

Fans of Ossipoff and his work immediately objected, but many others saw its destruction as no big loss. Three people quoted in a 2008 newspaper article expressed indifference or open disapproval: “I don’t happen to think it’s particularly attractive…it’s not the best use for that location. If it’s going to be an office, you could have a newer, better office building on that site,” said Jamie Brown of Hawai‘i Commercial Real Estate. From Gary Gordon, construction superintendent: “It’s period architecture. Unfortunately, its time has come and gone, and it doesn’t blend in.” And from Francis Oda, chairman and CEO of Group 70 International architects: “It’s an interesting building but [Ossipoff did] better than that…[and] you can’t just have a knee-jerk reaction to preserve everything.” Apparently these three thought that nothing different from the multiple reflective glass towers we see in this location today should be present to interrupt the overall uniformity.

General Growth’s plan was never carried out. The company ran into financial problems and some of its assets were required to be spun off, leading to the 2012 switch in the ownership of the former Ward property to the Howard Hughes Corporation. Fortunately, the latter decided that the IBM Building was worthy of preservation and on February 1, 2013 began a $24 million renovation and revamp of it. The remodeled ground floor would house the publicly accessible scale model of the planned redevelopment of this portion of Kaka‘ako; this has been in place since 2014 and is still there today in 2026. The model has, of course, been changed over this 12-year period since the original target of 22 residential towers has been reduced in number.

We can be grateful that short-sighted dislike of “outdated buildings” which can lead to the loss of structures that could never be replicated today, due to costs or the lack of workmanship expertise to do the work, did not claim the IBM Building more than 15 years ago. It will continue to stand as a physical artifact of what Kaka‘ako once was.

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<title>Changing Kaka‘ako: The IBM Building</title>

At one time, the plan for the IBM Building included a basement bomb shelter in case of nuclear war. Later, the building faced destruction from a more ordinary source — changing ownership and redevelopment plans. Fortunately, writes ASD history columnist DeSoto Brown, it has been preserved, even as the neighborhood around it changes drastically.

Changing Kaka‘ako: The IBM Building

Ray Tsuchiyama

Business & Tourism

Maui ranchers have said for years that axis deer are eating them out of business. Now there are numbers.

 in Rangeland Ecology & Management Journal, the world’s premier peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to rangeland ecosystems (it serves as the flagship publication for the

, is the first to measure how much forage wild animals remove from Hawaiʻi’s working ranches and found forage loss at two-thirds of the 35 sites surveyed on Maui and Hawaiʻi Island. On Maui, cameras detected axis deer at 19 of 20 sites, in groups as large as 127 individuals. Where axis deer dominated, forage production ran about a quarter lower than in fenced-off plots. At the worst site, wild ungulates (free-roaming hoofed animals such as deer, pigs, and goats) removed 1,942 kilograms of forage per hectare over the two-week monitoring period.

The authors are careful. Monitoring was brief, it covered four ranches, and elevation influenced forage more than deer numbers did. But the deer effect was statistically significant, and it matches what ranchers describe. Fireweed, a toxic weed that crowds out grasses like Kikuyu, turned up at 70% of sites, and several sites sat in areas burned in the August 2023 Maui wildfires. Overgrazed land recovers slowly from fire.

My family’s roots on Maui go back to 1899. I served as a Maui County commissioner, worked at UH Maui College and contributed to the Maui County Department of Agriculture’s

. I have watched our working lands decline with growing alarm.

None of this is new. Just nine axis deer were released on Maui in 1959 and 1960. By 2011, the herd was estimated at 12,000, and former Mayor Alan Arakawa warned that many farmers, unable to afford full fencing, “may literally lose a crop overnight.” The state has since issued 29 emergency proclamations on axis deer, beginning under Gov. David Ige, with the latest on

A kupuna cattleman who has ranched Kula, Kaupo and Kihei for more than half a century described the losses to me. “Five deer drink the equivalent water of one cow,” he said. In droughts, thousands of deer compete with his cattle for water and feed, and he has imported emergency feed at tens of thousands of dollars a month. Ranchers told the study’s authors they have cut livestock by 25% to 30%. A statewide producer survey put annual damage, control, and repair costs from wild ungulates at $3.6 million to $7.5 million, plus more than $2 million in upfront fencing.

The burden falls unevenly. Fences protect individual pastures but do not reduce deer numbers, and the study’s authors warn that excluded animals simply shift onto neighboring unfenced land. That means smaller farms. Coffee growers and family ranches near homes often cannot hunt because safety distances rule out rifles. They cannot afford the expensive fences and cannot use the guns.

Hunting helps, and the UH team calls for expanded community hunting access along with large-scale removal by trapping or aerial shooting. But hunting tends to favor bucks, and a federal-state modeling study found that holding Maui’s herd down takes removing 20% to 30% of it every year, with a heavier share of does. UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) professor Melissa Price told

 that targeting does can reach the same population goal while removing far fewer animals overall. Night shooting near working pastures carries its own risk: some ranchers reported losing cattle to stray bullets and never getting reimbursed.

The scale is daunting. Herds can grow 20% to 30% a year, so roughly a fifth must be removed annually just to hold numbers steady. Depending on whose count you trust, that is about 5,000 to 12,000 deer. The state put $6.1 million into a 2024-25 control program paying landowners $25 to $50 a deer yet harvests still trail growth.

Rules compound the problem. When cattlemen proposed infrared-triggered water-trough traps that can capture 50 deer in a night, they ran into meat-inspection requirements. As ranchers describe them, a certified inspector must be present at harvest before venison can go to a food bank. The Legislature created a meat-processing task force to fix this, and it was still asking for more time.

Underneath it all is a data gap. In 2011, Maui’s herd was estimated at 12,000. A survey in 2021–22 put it near 47,000, shortly after a drought crash. State wildlife officials estimated 34,000 in late 2023 and 26,000 across Maui, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi in 2025, while the governor’s proclamation cites about 60,000. In 2024 the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems at Arizona State University estimated that the total deer herd across Maui County (which includes the islands of Maui, Molokaʻi, and Lānaʻi) was between 145,000 and 167,000 individuals. The ASU study broke this total down as 60,000 to 70,000 deer on Maui, 60,000 on Molokaʻi, and 25,000 to 37,000 on Lānaʻi (on the latter island, there are only 3,300 human residents).

Different dates, geographies, and methods mean no one can say whether the herd is shrinking or growing, set a credible removal target or judge any program. No agency publishes a single dashboard combining population estimates, DLNR culling permits, rancher reports, and poaching estimates. Without one, agencies play defense while working ranches burn through capital.

Deer have also fed Maui families for generations, so any solution must work with hunters. But if leaders mean it when they call agriculture and food security priorities, they must stop relying on what has not worked on its own: hunting that skips the does, and rules that keep venison out of the food supply. Without change, Maui’s small ranches and farms will not survive.

In Column Two, we look at how Arkansas and New Zealand turned deer into protein and revenue, and what Maui County can do next.

ay Tsuchiyama’s series explores one central question: How does Hawai‘i use the wealth and land it already has to create its next economic future? He can be reached at 

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<title>Maui’s Deer Crisis: Science, Strife, and Inertia (Part One)</title>

By some estimates, there are nearly as many axis deer as there are people across the three islands of Maui County. Roving herds can wreck a farmerʻs entire crop overnight and crowd out livestock ranchers. ASD columnist Ray Tsuchiyama breaks down the problem and explores solutions in this two-parter.

Maui’s Deer Crisis: Science, Strife, and Inertia (Part One)

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Michael Brestovansky

Crime & Courts

A man who allegedly attempted to kidnap a woman from a Diamond Head Gold Coast garage on Monday has been arrested and charged.

Diesel Makanikaiaulu Kawelo, 23, was arrested Monday after being reportedly found naked near Diamond Head, hours after a clothed man matching his description was recorded attempting to bodily carry a resisting woman into a vehicle on Coconut Avenue.

Footage of the incident depicts a man approaching two women inside a condo garage, accosting them and chasing one of them as she fled, before lifting her in a bear hug and attempting to drag her to a truck. However, the man dropped the victim and then sped off in the vehicle.

Two hours later, Honolulu police officers reportedly arrested the suspect without incident.

Kawelo has been charged with kidnapping, a felony offense carrying a maximum possible sentence of 20 years in prison, and is currently being held pending a $500,000 bail. An initial court appearance has not yet been scheduled.

Kawelo does not appear to have a lengthy criminal record in Hawai‘i. His only recorded criminal history in the state before this week was comprised of a handful of traffic offenses between 2022 and this year: in 2022, he was fined $300 for speeding, and in August of this year, he failed to appear in court for another speeding offense.

In 2021, Kawelo was charged with underage drinking and driving, his earliest recorded offense. However, the case was dismissed in 2022.

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Man who reportedly attempted to drag a woman to his car on Monday charged with kidnapping.

Attempted kidnapper arrested near Diamond Head

Thanksgiving is coming up on Thursday, Nov. 26. Whether you’re dining out or looking for an at-home feast, check out the following options:

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: The Thanksgiving dinner buffet costs $109 per adult ($54.50 per child ages 6 to 10 years old). Highlights include kiawe-smoked prime rib that’s carved to order, kiawe smoked brisket, ‘ahi poke, assorted sashimi, snow crab legs, salt and pepper shrimp, caramelized mushroom linguini, roasted turkey leg and turkey breast, holiday stuffing, temaki sushi, Prince bread pudding, pumpkin crunch haupia crunch pie and more.

The brunch buffet costs $111 per adult ($55.50 per child ages 6 to 10 years old). It includes many of the featured dinner buffet offerings — including kiawe-smoked prime rib, kiawe smoked brisket, roasted turkey leg and turkey breast — but also includes breakfast offerings like Prince fried rice, a waffle station and an omelet station.

: Dinner buffet 5 to 9:30 p.m. Nov. 26-29; brunch buffet 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 26

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: 53 By the Sea’s Thanksgiving take home packages are available for pre-order online and via phone.

The standard Thanksgiving dinner set ($250) is designed to feed four people and includes:

The deluxe Thanksgiving dinner set ($750) is designed to feed eight people and includes:

: In-person pick-ups from 8 a.m. to noon on Nov. 26

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: fishcake Honolulu, 307C Kamani St., Honolulu 

: C4 Table’s Thanksgiving holiday menu ($370) is designed to serve four to six people. It includes:

: Pick-up from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25 at fishcake Honolulu 

: Email pre-order with name (first and last), telephone contact number, number of meals/additional sides, and preferred pick-up time slot to 

: Chart House Waikīkī’s traditional turkey dinner ($65) includes butter and sage roasted turkey, savory cornbread stuffing, mashed or baked sweet potato with rum butter, pan gravy, creamed spinach and cranberry relish. 

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: This Thanksgiving ‘ohana feast to-go ($585) is designed to serve eight to 10 people. It includes:

: This special Thanksgiving dinner ($40) includes butter herb roasted turkey, homemade stuffing, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, green bean casserole, candied yams with toasted marshmallow, grilled corn on the cob and a dinner roll. 

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: This Thanksgiving prix fixe menu costs $140 per person ($45 for children ages 12 years and younger). It includes:

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: This Thanksgiving family feast ($725) is designed to feed six to eight people. It includes:

Pre-orders must be placed by Tuesday, Nov. 24.

: Pick-up from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Nov. 26

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: The all-you-can-eat Thanksgiving buffets will include a carving station, chef specialties and a variety of desserts. They cost $145 per adult ($55 per child ages 6 to 12 years). 

: Nov. 26, brunch buffet 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; dinner buffet 3 to 8 p.m. 

: This Thanksgiving package ($285.95) is designed to feed four to six people. It includes sliced roast turkey, turkey gravy, housemade stuffing, pineapple-glazed ham, garlic mashed potatoes, spicy ‘ahi on sushi rice, fresh cranberry sauce, and pumpkin crunch squares.

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: Hyatt Regency Waikīkī Beach Resort & Spa, 

: This Island-inspired Thanksgiving buffet costs $110 per person (50% off for children ages 6 to 12 years, $5.99 for children ages 5 years and under).

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discount is not valid for holiday menus. 

The Royal Hawaiian, a Luxury Collection Resort, Waik

: This Thanksgiving takeout feast ($595) is designed to serve eight to 10 people.

: Pick-up from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 26.

Upon arrival, guests should pull into The Royal Hawaiian porte cochere (valet) and check in with the team; staff members will bring your Thanksgiving feast directly to you. 

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: Halepuna Waikīkī by Halekūlani, 2233 Helumoa Road, Honolulu 

: This special Thanksgiving dinner features a three-course ($110 per person) or four-course ($150 per person) menu.

The three-course menu features a soup or pasta (premium upgrade optional), main course and dessert; an optional wine pairing ($50) is available. The four-course menu includes an appetizer (premium upgrade available), soup or pasta (premium upgrade available), main course and dessert; an optional wine pairing ($70) is available.

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: Zippy’s is offering a variety of Thanksgiving packages to choose from:

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: Pick-up Wednesday Nov. 25 or Thursday, Nov. 26

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