Blue Water Shrimp & Seafood

I am a big fan of street food.

Street food is casual, and rich in local flavor.

Wherever I go, I am always in search of some roadside snacks. Sometimes I am lucky to discover a few good eats, like this Blue Water Shrimp & Seafood stall.

Blue Water Shrimp & Seafood is located on Kuhio Avenue, Honolulu. I have passed by this stall so many times and it was never empty.

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Red carpet leads you to Blue Water Shrimp & Seafood (view from Kuhio Ave.)

Finally I decided to give it a try. We parked our car at the parking lot, so we didn’t get to walk on the red carpet. 🙁

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This stall is actually a movable bus that has colorful tropical fish painted on it.

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Dear God, please shed some light on what’s to order …

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The menu is in both English and Japanese. I told you, Japanese tourists are everywhere in Honolulu!

If you’ve lived in Iowa long enough (like, a week), you’ll realize there’s no good seafood here. So, I decided to shovel in as much seafood as I could on this trip.

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Here is my order: Furikake Blackened Ahi (seafood plate)

Note: Seafood plate includes sweet corn, rice and green salad. Furikake is a dry Japanese condiment that typically consists of seaweed, ground fish, etc.

I was asked how I wanted my ahi done. Did I hear it wrong? I could even choose how I want my tuna? Hmm… expectation was getting higher!

There’s only one way I want my ahi done – seared. Nothing upsets me more when my ahi tuna came out medium rare, it should have been seared! Raw fish lovers out there, you know what I mean!

Let’s see if Blue Water Shrimp can deliver.

My order came in a to go box … yeah, it’s street food, so don’t expect anything too fancy.

I opened the box and first thing I did was to cut the tuna. To tell you the truth, I only had tiny faith that the fish would come out the way I wanted it.

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My perfectly seared ahi tuna

To my surprise, the tuna was so fresh, tender, juicy and perfectly seared. 🙂 Score!

I was smiling all the way when enjoying my fish and rice. Thumbs up!

The corn was sweet and yummy. I didn’t care much about the salad and garlic bread.

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Choose to carry out or eat in under the shade. The environment is clean.

I highly recommend this stall!

There’s another van next to this stall, which is Healthy Mexican Food. I didn’t try it, so I don’t know if it’s any good.

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Healthy Mexican Food

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Healthy Mexican Food menu

Radim ordered tacos from them.

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Tacos

It’s hard to judge the taste from the photos. So, come here and taste for yourself. 🙂

First Night in Honolulu

Our plane reached Honolulu at 3pm.

Although I’ve traveled for a whole day and it’s 8pm in Iowa, I wasn’t tired.

I walked out of the airport, and immediately filled my lung with the island air. Ohhh.. this air smells so familiar. The temperature was perfect (76F/24C).

I was delighted to feast my eyes with exotic tropical plants which some are available in Borneo and some I’ve never seen.

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You don’t see this in Iowa.

Radim was able to connect with Kim and Natalie and arrange to have a dinner together. It was so nice to see some old friends, in Oahu!

We went to Phuket Thai restaurant for little din din.

My first impression of the restaurant was the waiters were very friendly and laid back. Perhaps a little too laid back because the service was slow. I was in such good mood and company that I didn’t mind.

Yummy seafood Pad Thai
Yummy seafood Pad Thai

Great company
Me, Radim, Natalie, Kim and Karan

In the photo, Natalie, Kim and I were showing the shaka sign. This is done by extending the pinkie and the thumb while curling the middle three fingers. This is a friendly sign of greeting in Hawaii.

After the dinner, it was about 9pm and the weather get chilly. Nothing unbearable though.

On our way home to the apartment, we stopped by a grocery store to buy some bread and eggs for tomorrow’s breakfast (we rented an apartment and it has kitchen). I’ve read in the guide book that the produce here could be expensive. So, I was very curious about the prices of the grocery.

eggs in honolulu

eggs in honolulu

Well, what do you think of the prices?

The price of eggs in Malaysia is about RM3 (less than USD1) per dozen. My mom would get a heart attack when she sees the prices of eggs in Honolulu.

We picked up some papayas, bananas, bread, jam, water, etc from the supermarket. By the time we finished grocery shopping, I was quite tired (already 3am in Iowa time).

Came back t to the apartment and went straight to bed!