New Year's Eve is the best day of the year in Hawaii. Dinner, dessert, fireworks and as a topper, saimin and soba. It's pure heaven...... New Year's Eve is a huge day of celebrating the end of the current year while welcoming in the new year. This year was no exception. We ate a wonderful dinner, consisting of black beans ("kudo mame") for a healthy life, burdock root ("gobo"), kanten and grapes, crab salad, edamame rice, stuffed konbu with chicken and pork, and teriyaki chicken and beef. And the layered jello -- yes, that was the biggest hit of all -- no restaurant or bakery can top it!! mmm mmm good. Our cousins, the chefs, did a wonderful job. Everything was awesome!!! Later in the evening, the celebration began with a flood of police cars gathering
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