portion-controlled cruise line entertainments, doled out in digestible bites and complimentary mai tais. but you ll also find the sort of beloved, indigenous institution like tasty crust, as local a place as you re likely to find. daniel ikaika ito will explain. what are we having? this is a menu situation, or i can order for you if you trust me. i think we re gonna hook you up with the local flavor. okay, i trust you. raised on the big island, he s a journalist, the first native hawaiian editor of a major surf publication, and founder of the local contrast magazine. local culture is very much still trying to point a finger at anybody coming in going, hey you re a haole, you don t belong. and, therein kinda lies a little conflict you have being a modern-day hawaiian. and i still think that s something that we forget about these days, is how educated and how accepting our kupuna, our ancestors, were.