Spicy Ahi and...Honey Toast Friday!

I haven't seen my friend Kimo in nearly a year and I wanted to buy his iPhone for my Dad, so we met for dinner at Shokudo, a Japanese restaurant next to Ala Moana. He looked great; he lost nearly 40 lbs. since we last met...definitely a lot slimmer than before! He mostly did hiking, swimming and running/walking. He only joined a gym last week so he could do more weight training. If he could drop 40 lbs. w/o being a gym rat, than I can do it too! hehehe!

I checked out their menu online beforehand, that way I could make a choice and just stick to it. I originally was going to get spinach salad, share spicy ahi sushi and have their house specialty dessert, Honey Toast! I changed my mind slightly when we got there though (i thought the 2 boiled eggs and bacon on the salad was a little overkill), but I did stick to my guns and ordered a salad (tossed w/ a vinagrette, but topped w/ calamari LOL) which we shared! He ordered a tempura bento box, which looked yummy but would've been a waste for me to order since I probably wouldn't eat the rice.

salad w/ calamari

Red Eye! (spicy tuna roll w/ salmon). I only had 3 pcs. It was small, not that great. :p

Since I've never gone to Shokudo before, everyone was telling me about their Honey Toast. YOU HAVE TO TRY IT they said. I was a little worried about having sweet toasted Japanese bread drizzled with honey and topped with vanilla ice cream (we had ours with caramel as well). I'm not particularly a fan of caramel, but OMG this dessert was soooooo yummy and "light", not heavy at all.

MMMM it's sooo good!

Wooooooooo! I waited all week for this! Caramel Honey Toast!

Honey Toast Aftermath!

It was a nice dinner and we had a lot of fun catching up on our lives! He's very encouraging and funny too. He sold me his iPhone (which I need to unlock tonight for T-Mobile) and even made me a bag of Oatmeal Cookies, WHICH I just came home from shopping and ARRRRGH my brother ATE THEM ALL. I'm a little upset, but the cookies are sooo good (he's a baker) that maybe if bro didn't eat them, then I might have gone overboard and ate them ALL!

We're such sexy bitches.