Hawaii (State of) Local Custom Tips by sargentjeff

Do not bring fruits, vegetables or animals to Hawaii. Due to the sensitivity of the hawaii's biosphere, any imported items have the potential to cause tremendous damage.

Be careful not to polute any drain water, as it is returned to the sea.

Mahalo means thank you and is on the trash cans. Many people think it means trash

for an online hawaiian dictionary go to this site:
http://www.hisurf.com/hawaiian/dictionary.html

One interesting thing I noticed eventually in Hawaii is that there aren't any billboards anywhere. I was driving around one day and it clicked. Wow, these people have really made an effort to maintain what natural beauty they can here, and this is just one additional evidence of this.

Some more Hawaiian Lingo n' stuff: Pidgen is basically Hawaiian slang
Puinsai – this is something you would be likely to see on a … young adult's car. It is a slang surfer term for getting in that good spot in the wave, and also a crude term for a phrase it phonetically sounds like.

Edie would go – This is a phrase honoring the famous Hawaiian surfer of the 70's, Eddie Aikau. Eddie would surf waves other people were scared to, and he lost his life in a heroic effort save the crewmembers of the Hokule'a after it overturned. He was on the voyaging canoe when it capsized many miles off Lanai. After a night spent in the water, he tied a bag of oranges around his neck and set off for land on the surfboard he had brought with them. The rest of the crew was eventually saved, but he was never seen again.
Got poi? This is a hawaiian take on the Got milk? commercials. Poi is a hawaiian staple made from the taro root by mashing it and adding water until it is the consistency of glue.

Da kine = Da kine is a pidgen term loosely translated as 'the kind', which basically is what you would say when something is on the tip of your tongue but you can't remember it. 'We going da kine later' = We're going _______ later' Insert whatever word it was you couldn't remember or just figured the other person knew, so you didn'' need to say.

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