Today, we are flying to Oahu, Hawaii with Hawaiian Airlines. The flight time is less than 5 hours and it's the kids' first time to Hawaii. We will be staying at Oahu for 1 week.
Hawaiian Airlines is the only domestic airlines that still offers complimentary meal on flight. The food was pretty good especially the chocolate macadamia nuts.
We reached there just after noon and our shuttle was already waiting for us. Took us about less than 30 minutes to reach our hotel, Hilton Hawaiian Village.
Although it was before our check in time, we were lucky that our room was ready, so we could go to our room right after we got our room cards.
The hotel has a resort fee like most other hotels and it included many things. One of the things was that we could rent DVDs.
We rent several DVDs during our stay so that we can watch at night while the kids were asleep. We try to spend all our day time outside exploring the island.
We had an ocean view room and it had a large balcony. The view was spectacular. The ocean had different shades of blue, which was so gorgeous.
After resting a little in the room, we decided to explore the hotel since it's a very large resort. There are a small area of stores inside the resort and the hotel has multiple pools.
As you can see from the pictures above, the weather was nice with beautiful blue sky.
We bought some spam musubi from the ABC stores for the kids to try. If you have been to Hawaii, you need to try their spam musubi. If you didn't try it, then you can't really say that you have been to Hawaii. That's how much significance the spam musubi is to Hawaii.
What is spam musubi? It is grilled spam on top of a block of rice which is wrapped together with dried seaweed. This is the most basic spam.
The one that we have, had some eggs in between. They are many different varieties of spam musubi, but the basic ingredients is grilled spam, rice and dried seaweed. The other varieties have other extra ingredients added like eggs, avocado, bacon, etc.
Spam became a popular food in Hawaii after World War II as it was a main dish for the troops. The local Japanese in Hawaii then use spam to create spam musubi, like how they have sushi (seafood on top of block of rice) in Japanese cuisine.
You can buy spam musubi in most convenience stores in Hawaii such as ABC and 7 eleven stores. There are so many ABC stores in Waikiki and I feel like every few steps we take, there is an ABC store. One of the best spam musubi can be bought at Musubi Cafe Iyasume.
We didn't want to eat too much as we have made an early reservation at Alan Wong's Honolulu restaurant. According to some food reviewers, Alan Wong is one of the top restaurants in Oahu, Hawaii. So, we wanted to try it on our visit this time. Since we didn't rent a car, we had to take a cab there.
I have another post on Alan Wong's Honolulu restaurant.
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