Slow Food Chinatown Tours
May 31, 2015 from 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. (no lunch)
June 28, 2015 from 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (with lunch)
 
Our successful Chinatown tours will continue in May and June.  

Explore the history, culture, and food traditions of Honolulu's Chinatown. Visit markets, bakeries, noodle factories, specialty shops, temples and historic sites. Sample local foods such as poke, roast pork, look funn noodles, and tropical fruits.  Bring your shopping bags with you so you can  buy fresh produce, noodles, and specialty products. 

Take your choice of a May tour without a lunch OR a June tour with a 5-course lunch after the tour at one of Chinatown's finest restaurants included. 

To register for the Sunday, May 31 tour, the price is $30 for members/$40 for non-members.

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/slow-food-oahu-chinatown-tour-sunday-may-31-2015-tickets-16883813942 

 

To register for the Sunday, June 28 tour, the price is $50 for members/$60 for non-members

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/slow-food-oahu-chinatown-food-tour-and-lunch-june-28-2015-tickets-16870827098 

 

You may go to  http://bit.ly/sfoevents to view all our Slow Food events.

* Deep in the heart of Mānoa Valley resides the largest collection of Native Hawaiian seeds in the world, and one of the only places where you can find some of Hawaiʻi's rarest native plant species. The Seed Conservation Lab is part of the Hawaiian Rare Plant Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Lyon Arboretum. The lab stores close to 10 million seeds representing over 550 different species, or about 40 percent of Hawaiʻi's native plants.  The program is written up in "Saving endangered Native Hawaiian plants one seed at a time."   Slow Food USA sponsors the "Ark of Taste" to support endangered species of food. This project thrives with the same principles of seed protection as The Ark.

*  Slow Food O'ahu, as represented by Laurie Carlson, participated in the "Food for Thought" series at Punahou School on May 5.  The topic of this workshop was "sustainable fishing" to increase awareness on how fishing affects ocean ecosystems globally and to discuss the importance of sustainable fishing initiatives locally.   Participating on the panel in addition to SFO representative Carlson were Hi'ilei Kawelo of Paepae o He'eia, Ed Kenney of town Restaurant, Jason Chow of Conservation International Hawai'i.  For a writeup of the forum, go to http://www.punahou.edu/news/item/index.aspx?LinkId=3371&ModuleId=6

* Gary Hooser, Former State Senator, attended and spoke at the annual shareholders meeting of the transnational corporation and chemical giant, Syngenta.  My message was clear and unambiguous.  He asked them to withdraw from their lawsuit against the County of Kaua'i, to honor and follow our laws, and to give our community the same respect and protections afforded to the people in their home country of Switzerland. Read about the trip here, as reported by the Hawai'i Independent.  For those not familiar with the movement to regulate the agrochemical companies in Hawai'i, especially on Kaua'i, you may view this 4-minute video.