When my daughter, Tiffany, her husband, Ed and our granddaughter KC were here last month they took us to another wonderful restaurant that we would never have gone to if they hadn't introduced us to it. It's called Marukame Udon and is on Kuhio Avenue in Waikiki. There are often LONG lines outside, but it seems to move pretty quickly.
When we went for lunch, the line wasn't too bad.
Tif took this photo when they passed by the restaurant one evening last month.
Edward Sugimoto did a thorough review on his blog, Around Hawaii. Click on this link to find out more about this place if you're interested.
When we were in Japan we were introduced to something called Sanuki undon. We really liked it. I'm not a huge fan of the thicker noodles, but this was great. It was silky and soft and just plain yummy.
Marukame Udon is sort of cafeteria style. You order your udon, pick up whatever tempura or musubi you'd like, get a drink and pay at the end of the line in cash.
Only then do you search for a place to sit.
We managed to avoid the long lines by going a little early. Art thought it was going to take a long time so he put enough quarters in the meter for an hour and a half. We were done in 35 minutes so we decided to walk around Waikiki's International Market Place to work off some of the carbs we'd had.
Mom says she has never been to the International Market Place. That was a surprise! She enjoyed walking under the huge shady branches of the gigantic banyan tree.
There's a lot of kiosks under the banyan selling tons of tourist trinkets.
We gave our 36 minutes left on the parking meter to a happy local person who drove up behind us and we headed back to Auntie Grace's home to drop her off before heading back to our house.
As we were waiting for the light to change there was a huge accident that happened before our eyes. Art says he saw an SUV plow into a car, 4 cars up that crumpled like an accordian. I saw another car who might have been trying to avoid the crash plow into the sidewalk and store.
Emergency vehicles arrived right away. We were going to try to back up and head out but the person behind us said there really wasn't another way to get up to Auntie Grace's place from where we were.
Two ambulances carried away the injured. We saw one woman on a gurney. One person had to be treated on the sidewalk first. A tow truck arrived to pull away the SUV.
Eventually the police came and told us that they were going to hold up traffic so we could get onto the highway to find another way to get where we all needed to go.
We were all counting our blessings that we weren't that first car at the intersection.
In the evening we were watching the news tonight and heard about a couple who were injured when a large branch from the banyan tree fell on them at the International Market Place in February.
I guess you never know when something bad might happen. We were lucky this time, but who knows what tomorrow will bring.
We can only hope for the best.
When we went for lunch, the line wasn't too bad.
Tif took this photo when they passed by the restaurant one evening last month.
Edward Sugimoto did a thorough review on his blog, Around Hawaii. Click on this link to find out more about this place if you're interested.
When we were in Japan we were introduced to something called Sanuki undon. We really liked it. I'm not a huge fan of the thicker noodles, but this was great. It was silky and soft and just plain yummy.
Marukame Udon is sort of cafeteria style. You order your udon, pick up whatever tempura or musubi you'd like, get a drink and pay at the end of the line in cash.
Only then do you search for a place to sit.
The food was excellent! They cook it right in front of you so it's extremely fresh (and very reasonably priced). We were grateful to Tif and Ed for introducing this place to us and decided that we would take mom there someday.
POSTSCRIPT:
The above was supposed to be my post for the day, but then some pretty extraordinary things happened.
We took my mom and her sister, Auntie Grace to Marukame Udon restaurant today. They both pronounced the sanuki noodles excellent. They especially liked the broth. We all had the Kake Udon and different kinds of tempura.
We managed to avoid the long lines by going a little early. Art thought it was going to take a long time so he put enough quarters in the meter for an hour and a half. We were done in 35 minutes so we decided to walk around Waikiki's International Market Place to work off some of the carbs we'd had.
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| Mom at International Market Place |
Mom says she has never been to the International Market Place. That was a surprise! She enjoyed walking under the huge shady branches of the gigantic banyan tree.
There's a lot of kiosks under the banyan selling tons of tourist trinkets.
We gave our 36 minutes left on the parking meter to a happy local person who drove up behind us and we headed back to Auntie Grace's home to drop her off before heading back to our house.
As we were waiting for the light to change there was a huge accident that happened before our eyes. Art says he saw an SUV plow into a car, 4 cars up that crumpled like an accordian. I saw another car who might have been trying to avoid the crash plow into the sidewalk and store.
Emergency vehicles arrived right away. We were going to try to back up and head out but the person behind us said there really wasn't another way to get up to Auntie Grace's place from where we were.
Two ambulances carried away the injured. We saw one woman on a gurney. One person had to be treated on the sidewalk first. A tow truck arrived to pull away the SUV.
Eventually the police came and told us that they were going to hold up traffic so we could get onto the highway to find another way to get where we all needed to go.
We were all counting our blessings that we weren't that first car at the intersection.
In the evening we were watching the news tonight and heard about a couple who were injured when a large branch from the banyan tree fell on them at the International Market Place in February.
I guess you never know when something bad might happen. We were lucky this time, but who knows what tomorrow will bring.
We can only hope for the best.
