Honolulu Hiroshima Kenjin Kai members Gregg Mueller and Maiko Muta ham it up while cooking the Kenjin Kai’s popular Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki as HHKK past president Wayne Toma (far left) laughs with them. Muta, who is from Hiroshima, owns and operates the Carp Dori Restaurant in the McCully Shopping Center. Honolulu Hiroshima Kenjin Kai members sold 744 okonomiyaki at the Jan. 13 New Year’s ‘Ohana Festival at Mö‘ili‘ili Field and the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i.The Lynch sisters — (from left) 6-year-old Grace, 7-year-old Helen and 2-going-on-3-year-old Elsie Sue — get dressed up in kimono. The girls’ mother, Kristine Lynch, a yonsei, said it was the first time her daughters had gotten dressed up in kimono.Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko Hawaii instructor Melissa Ching rounded up some enthusiastic and energetic keiki in the audience, gave them a paranku hand-held drum and bachi stick and taught them some eisä dance moves. Check out the springs in that little boy in the gray T-shirt and shorts and the girl with the bright pink shoes to his left!Making a kumihimo kimono cord.Doesn’t that grilled mochi look absolutely scrumptious? Mmmmmmm …
