HONOLULU (AP) — Dear Tourist: The flowers in that bright-purple lei you received on your Hawaii vacation almost certainly weren’t grown in the Aloha State. The vast majority of those odorless orchids ...
For Little Plum Executive Chef Casey Kusaka, flowers have never been an afterthought. They shaped his childhood in Kaneohe, where his grandmother wove lei and ti leaves, his mother and sister danced ...
Lei made from different flowers hanging inside a refrigerator at Cindy’s Lei Shop in Honolulu. Photos: MENGSHIN LIN/AP Dear Tourist: The flowers in that bright-purple lei you received on your Hawaii ...
Sam Say, owner of M.P. Lei Shop, strings flowers to make a lei at his shop in Chinatown on Feb. 26, 2026, in Honolulu, Hawaii. AP HONOLULU (AP) — Dear Tourist: The flowers in that bright-purple lei ...