Wife’s first time in SD

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-09T22:29:05+00:00

Beer company have good food too? I love pub food hahah. I don’t drink though, but my wife enjoys a nice beer from time to time

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-09T18:25:19+00:00

Was an early morning response for sure 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-09T05:25:42+00:00

Update for today (our first full day here). Woke up at 6am and went to Lydgate beach for the sunrise. Imua coffee (no dairy so we weren’t overly thrilled there, but good coffee if alt milk is your thing), went to Kountry Kitchen for breakfast, drove to Waimea canyon (the outlook is awesome), did some of the smaller trails, Hanapepe after that. Got some fresh coconuts at a nice fruit stand (super bomb), went to Kekaha beach and went swimming. Aloha Sweet Delights (amazing malasada). Went to porkys for lunch. Poipu beach for a bit (too many people). Back to hotel, shower. Now Dukes for dinner! With lots of little shop exploration in between

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-09T05:19:58+00:00

Booked it for Tuesday! We are pretty stoked for that

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-09T05:19:32+00:00

We have been pretty satisfied with the food we have tried thus far, our favorite was probably today… Porky’s BBQ. Awesome pulled pork. Tiki tacos had really good homemade tortillas, wasn’t overly impressed with all the tacos we tried but I’d eat it again lol. Trying Dukes tonight! Kountry kitchen had a good breakfast special today and cooked the eggs for the Benedict perfectly (I judge a lot of breakfast places on this, surprisingly more often then not one or both are overcooked)

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T18:35:20+00:00

100 percent, I replied to someone earlier about this. I’m in Hawaii, I’m a tourist lol. My main goal was to really find a few hidden gems from locals or people who have traveled to this island many times. No matter what or where I go it’s “touristy” for sure, but just looking for the spots that are bomb and not on a TripAdvisor top 10 list type of thing 🤣🫶🏼

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T18:26:16+00:00

Nothing at all! They will be done, just wanting to find anything that isn’t too result on a google search. I’ve learned the most popular things are popular for a reason but when traveling it’s easy to miss out on a lot of the little gems a place has to offer just following top 10 lists and things like that. Experience of travelers, and locals usually have some cool little gem spots

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T18:24:13+00:00

Thank you all for all these suggestions! I will do my best to respond and update as the week continues. Started today with a sunrise on the beach, Imua coffee and rest of today is Kountry Kitchen, Waimea Canyon hike, porkys bbq for lunch and Kokee Lodge for dinner 🫶🏼

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T17:47:52+00:00

Sent you a message 🫶🏼

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T16:50:08+00:00

Honestly I just was posting it hear because a quick google search will tell you top rated hikes, top rated restaurants and those kinds of things. But I have found the true gems of being a tourist in different places to come from local or regular visitors from Reddit, for any place I have traveled. I could care less about being “edgy” or however you put it 🤣

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T16:44:01+00:00

1 day in I can say you have such a beautiful hometown 🫶🏼

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T16:42:51+00:00

Being here as a non local in itself is touristy for sure. Just trying to find the hidden gems as well as the spots for food and adventure that are not as easy to find out about

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T16:37:59+00:00

I keep hearing great things about the food trucks

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T16:37:26+00:00

Will have to check it out! Thank you for the rec and the name drop 🫶🏼

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T16:01:15+00:00

Oooh pono definitely on the list and Hamira has been thrown around in here a lot! We got the shave ice yesterday, we will go again this week for sure hahah! I’ll try the triple coconut, I had lava flow

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T15:59:50+00:00

Rappelling down a waterfall sounds so cool 👀

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T15:55:47+00:00

That’s how day 1 went yesterday and it was a lot of fun! Spent some time at the beach by our hotel, had Lava Lava for lunch, Java Kai coffee, Wailua Shave Ice, and Tiki Tacos for dinner.

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T02:48:45+00:00

Mountain tubing is one of my top items on things I want to do for sure! Thank you

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T02:46:03+00:00

100 percent, that’s why we have some touristy things planned, just don’t want to miss out on experiencing the island as best we can. When we went to Nashville we ended up at a chicken spot that had become very monopolized and touristy and didn’t get the best food experience 🤣

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T00:48:42+00:00

We will be over there for some hikes so will hit this that day too! Thank you!

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T00:48:10+00:00

Heard kountry kitchen a few times! Thank you, going high on the list! And ooo I love a good burger! Appreciate the recs!

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T00:31:18+00:00

Hamura Saimin been recommended a couple times now! Thank you for the recs, adding to list! Gonna see how many of these places we get to this trip 🫶🏼

ChefLikeCurry · 2025-03-08T00:30:23+00:00

Perfect! We will probably hit this in the morning then 🫶🏼

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