We’re lucky. Our children were born and raised in Hawaii, the most racially diverse state in the United States as there is no real majority. With 23% of Hawaii residents claiming to be multi-ethnic (two or more races), in Hawaii you’ll find many groups adding their own variety of culture to our local way of …
Trying different cuisines is like picking different colors of clothes from your closet. It gives you a sense of novelty, adventure, and it opens your eyes to something new allowing you to be creative. Jaf and Lou Lou, if you haven’t guessed, are Multicultural. I, their Mom am Hawaiian and their father Lebanese, which automatically …
In every restaurant in Belgium, in almost every menu you’ll find “Belgian Waffle” in the dessert section. And at every restaurant we almost always order it… the Belgian waffle. However, after ordering and eating it at several different restaurants we noticed they either looking like this; or this; Both taste completely different, yet on the …
We’ve been camping in the city of Ghent for 4 days and quite frankly, we love it. When we started preparing for our trip to Belgium, it would seem obvious that we would go to Brussels, right. But we heard wonderful things from people in the Netherlands about the city of Ghent and decided to …
I know, kids eating mussels? You’d be surprised to know that kids can eat and learn to love “fruits de mer” without cringing when they first see them. Moules-Frites (pronounced mool-freet), which originated in Belgium and is a very popular dish across Europe consists of live mussels, steamed in a white wine with garlic and …
Whatever you call it, we’ve been eating this daily during our visits to the Netherlands and Brussels. Frites (let’s just call it this since we’ve gotten used to it), is an extremely popular snack with the Dutch and Belgians. Usually served in paper cones and topped with mayonnaise you can find it practically everywhere you …
