You measure the water for the rice by the knuckle of your index finger.

You can understand and speak PIDGIN english.

You go to dinner and "make one plate" with all the extra food leftover.

You automatically take off your shoes in people's homes.

You eat rice every single day.

You know you aren't supposed to whistle at night time, cross your chopsticks, or stick your fork straight out of your rice.

You've given Kahi Mohala's number out to a guy/girl you didn't like.
ahahahahha gOOd one!

You know what "tutu" means.

You learned to play the ukulele in elementary school.

Your mouth waters when you hear the words li-hing mui.

It's SHOYU, not soy sauce.

To you, sushi means sushi, not RAW FISH!

You say "da kine" and da odda person says "da kine" and you both know what it means.

You have a billion pairs of slippers in front your door when your family gets together.

You eat portuguese sausage, eggs, and rice for breakfast... and they sell it @ McDonald's too!

You don't understand why anyone would buy less than a 20 lb bag of rice...

You would serve spam as a meat for dinner...

You know what the "stink eye" is; and how to give it.

You can correctly pronouce kalanianaole, kalakaua, likelike and aiea.

You know the difference between being hapa and being hapai.

You give directions using mauka and makai... no east, west, north, south crap.

You say, "Nori" not seaweed paper.

You say "Brah" not "Bro".

Your jokes are about Portugese not Polish.

You think 70 degrees is freezing cold.

You call it "saimin" not "Top Ramen."

You know pineapples don't grow in trees.

You have said "wat, owe you money?", "karang your alas", or "dakine"

You call public transportation "da BUS."

You go to Neiman Marcus "jus fo look"

The mainland people no can understand your language.

You never understood why adding pineapple and ham to a pizza made it Hawaiian to the rest of the world!!!!
OMG i'm always telling people this! haha

The condiments at the dinner table are shoyu, ketchup, chili peppah watah, kimchee, takuwan, Hawaiian salt and pickled onion.

You call everyone older than you "Aunty" or "Uncle" even though they aren't related to you.

Your philosophy is "Bumbai."

You drive barefoot.

You feel guilt leaving a get-together without helping clean up.

The only time you honk your horn is once a year during the safety check.

When changing lanes you give one shaka to da bruddah or sistah behind you.
can't do that in LA :|

Nobody is sure exactly where "north" is.

Your cousin is Japanese-Chinese-French-Filipino-Korean-Scottish-Portuguese-Hawaiian, plus some stuff too manini to mention.

"You like beef" has nothing to do with what's for dinner.

You can taste the difference between teriyaki and kal-bi.

You get one slippah tan!

 

^ ho cuz, mean yo stuffs. good find ladat. by da way, you get my flo-jo's? give em back cuz.

 

lol all true.
...and just for the safe parking.

 

I wanna move to hawaiii... I bet its fun...

 

^ Nah Mang... It ain't all that great... If you want to drive somewhere else... you'll end up where you started... Actually can't wait for them fairy's... We can drive on the other islands... YEEEEE HAAAAH donkey...!!!!!! LOL

 

How'z it brah,

An essential Hawaiian food group - SPAM.

 

ho cuz that's some funny and true stuff brah.

lol....

hahaha, does anyone watch amazing race where the guy was trying to pronounce the street name when they were in Hawaii...

 

ho cuz, we go reep da waves ladat den go foa one cruz round da island wit are g's cuz. mean? yeah bu, i tink da chicks like oof us cuz we get g's ladat. no need spit game to dem. dey come up to us and ask if we like breed! ho mean dat kine!

 

making me miss home.... born and raise in Hilo... now in mainland

 

No place like Hawaii. The diversity, the climate, the food, and of course the most gorgeous women on earth. Gotta love it.

Oh and Sen Jen, what kine local u brah? Flo Jos? where da kamaboko slippas liddat?

 

i use to flo jo's for the clubbing scene. and tea leaf for everything else. !