This Week's Farmers Market Schedule & Specials + KAMPAI! Sake Tasting Event on Monday 11/16

First up, “Happy Birthday, Alex!” The P&L team celebrated our general manager’s birthday at Any Place Lounge last night and fun times were had and karaoke was sung. If you see Alex at the farmers market this week, make sure to wish him a “happy birthday!”

Last night at Alex's surprise birthday party at Any Place Lounge in Moilili. Good times! Instagram by 808Soos.

Last week’s Mama Le pop-up event was a smashing success. We are exploring the option of making this a monthly event, but are still figuring things out. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, check out some photos from last week’s pop-up over on our Facebook page. Mahalo to Orlando Benedicto for taking photos of the event. 

For this week’s farmers market, we’re on our regular schedule. Specials include MI VIET TIM, Mama Le’s featured noodle soup. This is a Chinese influenced noodle soup with stewed duck leg. For featured banh mi, we have BANH MI SIU MAI, or SPICY PORK MEATBALL. Finally, for the featured rice dish, we have Mama Le’s STUFFED TOFU W/ MINCED PORK and is cooked in a tomato sauce. Finally, as an extension of last week’s BUN CHA pop-up, we will be making BUN CHA PORK BELLY, with fresh veggies and vermicelli noodles. All good stuff! And as always, you can view the full menu over at our Farmers Market Menu page. 

Finally, a quick reminder that next Monday, November 16, we are partnering with the Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) and are going to host a SAKE TASTING EVENT at the restaurant from 8pm - 10pm after the screening of KAMPAI! FOR THE LOVE OF SAKE. The film will screen at the Regal Dole Cannery Stadium 18 at 6pm. 

Chef Andrew will serve a menu inspired by the sake that are featured in the film, and these 4 unique sake will also be served! It’s for sake lovers and a great after-film dinner too! Plus, the director, Mirai Konishi, as well as Kosuke Kuji, fifth-generation president of Nanbu Bijin brewery, will be in attendance. 

Check out the menu for this sure to be memorable event:

• Okunomatsu Sakura daiginjo ~ Banana Blossom Salad with lemon dashi, purslane, grapefruit, parmesan, almonds
• Nanbu Bijin daiginjo ~ Konbu Beignet with tofu sweet garlic cream
• Iwaki Kotobuki yamahai junmai genshu ~ Shiitake Spaghetti with aromatic porcini broth, shallots and Meyer lemon
• Tamagawa tokubetsu junmai ~ Chan Chan Yaki Don of salmon and cabbage sauteed in butter and saikyo miso, served atop jasmine rice

The SAKE TASTING EVENT is a separate ticketed event from the film screening.  To purchase sake tasting tickets, visit kampaisake.eventbrite.com. 

Monday, November 16, 2015
KAMPAI! FOR THE LOVE OF SAKE Screening 
6:00pm - 7:40pm
Regal Dole Cannery Stadium 18
Buy tickets here

KAMPAI! AFTER-FILM SAKE TASTING EVENT
8:00pm - 10:00pm
The Pig & the Lady
Buy Tickets here

Buy Everything but the Turkey as part of our Thanksgiving takeout offerings

The Pig and The Lady wants to be a part of your Thanksgiving meal! Order your take home meal below. Pick-up will be on Wednesday, November 25 at our Chinatown location. You can pick-up between 5:30pm - 10pm. Last orders will be taken on Monday, November 23.

Check out some of the side dishes we have in store for this year, including the ultimate dessert of Chef Rachel's GRANDMA SUZUKI'S PUMPKIN CHIFFON PIE. Yes. We can assure you that if you order this for your Thanksgiving potluck party, you'd be the hero of the evening!

Check out the full menu and fill out the online form to start ordering away! Read more on how to order.... 

THIS WEEK'S FARMERS MARKET SCHEDULE + SPECIALS 11/4 - 7

Another busy Kailua Farmers Market last week Thursday.

November 3, 2015

We will be on a regular farmers market schedule this week:

Wednesday, Nov 4
Blaisdell
4pm - 7pm

Thursday, Nov 5
Kailua
5pm - 7:30pm

Saturday, Nov 7
KCC
7:30am - 11am

As many of you know, Mama Le’s BUN CHA HANOI POP-UP is tomorrow at Blaisdell, and it’s currently sold out. BUN CHA HANOI is a popular style of pork BBQ but eaten in a savory room temperature broth with fresh vegetables and vermicelli noodles. In addition to this, Mama Le is also crafting a 5-course menu around this dish and making other Vietnamese dishes that are not as well known as the Vietnamese cuisine that many locals are familiar of. 

Although this pop-up is happening at the Blaisdell farmers market, we are still going to have regular service. Specials this week are the following:

• PORCHETTA BUN BO HUE — This is Mama Le’s classic pork shank noodle soup but with slow cooked porchetta included.
• SMOKED KEILBASA SAUSAGE & EGGS PHO — So this should be interesting. Think of this as a breakfast style pho!
• PORCHETTA DIP BANH MI — If we are going to have Porchetta on the menu, we definitely have to make it into a banh mi sandwich! 

Aside from the pop-up and farmers market, the team is pretty busy this week with various events around town this weekend. 

Saturday, Nov 7, we are doing serving our food at the Hawaiʻi H.O.M.E. Project’s 7th Annual Food and Wine Tasting Fundraiser – Hoʻola me ke kahiau," Healing with compassion through selfless giving”, at the Waikīkī Aquarium. This is a fundraiser for a UH Medical school program that funds student-run medical clinics around the island at homeless shelters. 

In addition, we are also working at the HBA Legacy Night, an annual fundraiser that honors Hawaii Baptist Academy alumni, who are captains in their industry, as well as individuals who do good service to the community and the school. Our sous chef Brandon will lead this team, since he is an HBA alumnus. In fact, we have several graduates from the school and sometimes their shifts align and the entire kitchen becomes an HBA reunion!

On Sunday, Nov 8, we are back at Ward Village (IBM Bldg) for the Ward Courtyard Brunch! Chef Brandon will be there again, from 10am - 1pm. At at the same time, Alex, our general manager, will be back at the restaurant hosting a baby shower. Whew, lots of stuff to do!

Reverting back to the farmers market, you can check out the full menu over at the Farmers Market Menu page.

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