Christmas Special Dinner Menu (December 23 & 24 Only) --- $38

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～ Soup  ～

• Big Island Papaya Soup Ethnic Style

 ～ Appetizer ～

• Organic Kale Salad & Tofu Quiche

 ～ Entrée ～

• Bean Hamburger Steak with Red Wine Tomato Sauce

& Fresh Salad

～ Dessert ～

• Acai Berry Raw Cheese Cake

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We are looking forward to see you at this Christmas holiday season!

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We will try to accommodate your wishes as best we can,

however there are limitations to what we can do.

Please keep in mind, there is an additional charge for add-ons and substitutions. And also there is a corkage fee $20 per bottle and $2 per person for bringing-dessert fee. There is an 18% gratuity fee for parties of 6 or more.

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Our restaurant Holiday Hours as follows;

Christmas Eve - Regular (11:00-3:00PM, 5:00-9:00PM)

Christmas Day - Closed

New Year's Eve - Lunch Open, - Dinner Closed 

New Year's Day - Closed

Sorry for this inconvenience.

We would love to see you soon.

Happy Holidays!!!

From all of HALE staff

 

We have a new menu "Papaya Dynamite" available only for dinner time.

Price: $9.45

Lots of vegetables , mushrooms and chunk of papaya

 in a rich creamy texture sauce.

Come and try it.  You will love it!

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving Holiday!!!

We will be closed on Thanksgiving Day.

Sorry for this inconvenience.

We would love to see you sometime soon.

From all of HALE staff

HALE won the cov­eted “Critic’s Choice” award at the Hon­olulu Advertiser’s ‘Ilima award gala show last night, Octo­ber 12, at Dia­mond Head The­ater.

 

Pumpkin pie at risk? There's a shortage of canned filling: If you were planning on practicing your pumpkin pie ..

Pumpkin pie lovers be warned: You may not find your favorite can of pie filling at the supermarket.

There's a national shortage of canned pumpkin and pie filling, a result of poor weather that reduced last year's crop.

But this year's crop is on its way according to Libby's, a division of food giant Nestle. "We began shipping Libby's 100% Pure Pumpkin [filling] in late September, so it should be on grocer's shelves soon," she said.

Well, then why don't we make puree from fresh pumpkin? I think that's a good strategy! It is a real Macro!

"It all depends on weather for the remainder of this year's harvest. We have rainy conditions in Morton" -- the Illinois town where Libby's has 5,000 acres of pumpkin fields, O'Hearn said. "Mother Nature rules."

Derrick Jensen imagines Star Wars, as if it was written by environmentalists.

We’re used to Brad Pitt’s green building foundation, Make It Right NOLA, revealing some new takes on sustainable design, but a house that floats when it floods? Now that’s something that truly raises the bar for sustainable and functional design in the face of adverse elements!

The home, which is the brainchild of Morphosis Architects and its founder, Thom Mayne, will officially be unveiled tomorrow in a ready to move-in condition for one family displaced by Hurricane Katrina. NPR had a sneak peek interview with Mayne this afternoon and shed a bit more light on how it all works. From the article,

The designers gave the building a chassis, made it out of polystyrene foam and covered it with glass-reinforced concrete. “What does that do? It produces a raft; it floats,” Mayne says. “And it’s thought about as a seat belt. I mean, hopefully it never gets used. But when it gets used, it’s important.” The house is anchored to the ground by two vertical guideposts. At times of flooding, the house moves up the guideposts — up to 12 feet — to prevent it from drifting.

According to the interview, when flooding occurs, the home easily breaks away from things like electric lines, plumbing, etc. so that it can travel up the 12-foot guideposts. It also contains enough batteries to keep everything running inside for up to three days. And, obviously, as this is a Make It Right home, is built using green materials and sustainable design. Check out some concept art of the home below — or visit Make It Right NOLA for more details on the greening effort in the Lower 9th Ward.

  by ecorazzi

State's top crop forecast to reach up to $250 million in annual spending

  

 The seed industry is now Hawai'i's top crop in terms of production value.

Syngenta

Five seed companies — BASF, Dow AgroSciences, Monsanto, Pioneer Hi-Bred International and Syngenta— operate 10 farms on O'ahu, Maui, Moloka'i and Kaua'i.

Monsanto

Central America may be the original birthplace of corn, but Hawai'i for many years has been involved in the gestation of just about every corn plant grown from seed cultivated by the world's largest commercial seed producers.

If it's in the supermarket, fed to livestock or used to make fuel or other industrial products such as plastics and fiber, chances are the corn is from seeds at least partly developed in Hawai'i.

Corn seed companies have had a presence in Hawai'i for more than 40 years, initially as a home for winter nurseries. But advances in breeding work to give hybrid plants desirable traits helped grow the industry from $1 million in annual spending in the early 1970s to $10 million in the early 1990s.

In the past decade, industry growth has soared from about $30 million to $177 million last year as molecular breeding technology has became cheaper and faster, and more companies have set up or dramatically expanded local operations.

James Brewbaker, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at the University of Hawai'i, predicts that the state's seed crop industry could level off at $200 million to $250 million in annual spending — roughly the annual average value of sugar cane production in the 1980s before its precipitous decline.

"There is still a lot of growth that needs to happen," said Jonathan Bryant, managing director of plant science for BASF Corp., which is one of five global seed companies operating in the state.

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