Check out this in depth
article from the Asian Reporter telling the story of Lilikoi from the beginning:
Take my Minimum Daily Required Allowance (MDRA) of Hawai’i soul food. How do I deal with it? — Easy. I top my tank at Lilikoi café.
A quick walk west of Asian Reporter offices, about the same march from the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce of Oregon, and from everyone’s Center for Intercultural Organizing, you can fill up on Kailua local boy Dekin Hom’s family favorites. Lunch time, dinner time, anytime six days a week. "Hawai’i comfort food," he calls it.
Every time we walk onto Dekin’s Killingsworth café’s lanai, under his billowing Oregon tarp, there he is, grilling and wok-king. His wife Veth smacks my back and asks us to sit. He says she’s the brains of their operation.
