Akiyo and Akihiko's Birthday -March 10, 2011

Celebration with dinner at Roy's Hawaii Kai

Allen, Akiyo and Donna.

Akiyo, Donna, Allen and Akihiko.

Akiyo and Akihiko: Fish Trio, blacken Ahi, Steam Pesto fish, and macadamia nut white fish.

Roy's signature dish, braised beef short ribs(excellent)-Allen

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Donna: Steamed Mahi Mahi.(excellent)

Birthday girl, Akiyo.

Birthday boy, Akihiko. (their respective birthdays are one week apart)

With their birthday plates.

Birthday plates.

Akiyo, Akihiko and Donna

Pretty happy after dinner + desserts.

Akiyo and Akihiko in front of Roy's.

We had great fun celebrating Akiyo and Akihiko’s birthdays at Roy Yamaguchi’s Fusion Restaurant in Hawaii Kai. Especially noted was the friendly service where several of the hostesses and waiters made it a point to chit chat with us in English and Japanese. Conversing was not a big problem, our Japanese is a word of English and a lot of hand movements, Akiyo and Akihiko’s English were better than our Japanese.

 As it turned out, the evening was bittersweet; our time at the restaurant was exquisite and thoroughly enjoyable. When we arrived home and turned on the television, flashed across all channels were showing a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and a 30 foot tsunami completely devastating the northeast coast of Honshu Japan.

Honshū (本州) is the largest island of Japan, called the Mainland; it includes the cities of Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Yokohama. Akiyo and Akihiko are from Tokyo, they called back home and their family is safe and coping as well as they can.

They will be leaving next week from Hawaii for Tokyo, a place of uncertainty and possible threat of radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. 

We wish them the warmest Alohas….