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on to O'ahu!

Today we headed north of our home base in Kapa'a toward the Hanalei Valley. Here the taro root is traditionally grown and processed into (among other things) poi. I don't like poi, even though I try it each time I visit. I think it tastes like baked beans which have been boiled until most of the flavor is gone but the color and consistency remains.

We heard a malahini (local, resident) compare poi to sauerkraut, which he couldn't grok when he visited the mainland. I'll have to remember the comparison; having grown up in Germany with sauerkraut I never thought what strange a food it might be to kama'aina (visitor, outsider).

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