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This view was taken a minute ago from our backyard. The ocean and sky are almost the same shade of gray. This is NOT a normal day in Hawaii, no blue skies and blue ocean...surf's up at 12-18 feet, too! It's looking alot like the storm is coming.
These sand bags will be used for our Hurricane Lane coming right at us. We were on Agana, Guam Naval Air Base some 42 years ago when Typhoon Pamela wreaked havoc on this small island. As Hurricane Lane approaches us now in Hawaii, I can recall vividly the harrowing experience we lived through. Our 4 children were very young, 9, 5, 2 and a year old.Ken was fulfilling his military obligation and he was assigned to Guam as a Navy officer at the Medical Center at Agana for 2 years. He was a Lt. Commander in the Navy medical corp. This was still during the period of the draft.
We lived in a typhoon proof military home on NAS where all naval and civilian planes flew in and out of Agana. Our designated typhoon proof closet was in the master bedroom with no windows, no electrical outlets and just a long closet of cement construction. Typhoon Pamela was just like Hurricane Lane with force of 150 MPH gusts and more whose eye went directly over Guam. We were fortunate with the help of Ken's corpsmen from the hospital who boarded up our home with heavy plywood to cover all windows and A/C units. Hollowing winds, everything flying and making scary noise, darkness and crashing sounds made it sound like a scary Halloween night! It wasn't easy to take, as we calmed ourselves so the children would not be scared. We were without electricity for 1 weeks and had no phone service of our land lines in those days, for 1 month. Cell phones were not yet invented!! It was reassuring to see service and repair personnel from Honolulu who were contracted to help us gain back power lines on the Navy base. Devastation was unbelievable: Car hoods curled up due to the force of the strong winds as if they were like curly potato chips! Trees every where were either wiped out without any leaves nor branches as if they were mowed down indiscrimantely. Corrugated rooftops that were used for Vietnamese refugees were stripped off to nothing...devastation to the max on the main drag on Marine Drive, better known as " Tent City." So as Hurricane Lane approaches us today, not only do memories of the past come to mind, but the feeling to be prepared as the nature has their own way of moving that NO one can refute and deny is very much alive in the Chun household. BE SAFE, BE SMART, and BE CAUTIOUS! A new green salad that can blow you away before Hurricane Lane does in Honolulu, Hawaii...8/22/2018 Baby radish, daikon, leaves with delicate shiso ribbons, sparkled by young garlic chive flower buds, with a halo of chilled sweet crunchy cukes make a delectable light salad with a combination of new flavors!
Finally, one drop off + one pick up! Sophia's first day at Gungie's as well as Uncles Dennison, Bob, David, Aunties Caroline and Ann and dad, Les' alma mater...oops as well as cousin, Justine, and 2nd cousins Kevin and Kathryn's too! Sophia, as a kindergartener, will have the same class and teacher Andrew had 2 years ago!!
Lucy's Best Bitter Melon Stir Fry
1/2 pound of ground pork 2 medium size bitter melon 3 cloves garlic 1 pc ginger, dime size 3/4 t sugar 2 heaping T of fermented black bean 5 T of shoyu 1 T oyster sauce 1/2 t sesame oil Soak the beans until soft. Drain water and smash the beans. To it, add diced up garlic and ginger. Season the pork with sugar, shoyu, oyster sauce, sesame oil. Then add the black bean sauce to pork. Mix well. Keep all the ingredients at room temperature. Heat frying pan or wok with oil. Pan fry the seasoned pork at high heat. Brown well and turn quickly. Add sliced bitter melon and continue to stir fry on high or medium high. Place lid on to help soften bitter melon for a minute. Add more shoyu and / or oyster for desired taste. Make a cornstarch water mixture, add and stir to cook quickly, adding more water as necessary for gravy. Serve with hot rice.
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Fruits and veggies from our backyard gently swirled with homemade coconut tapioca pudding. With a brown rice with steamed green beans and bitter melon tofu shoyu garlic oil dressing give a variety of good taste and almost all the colors of the rainbow!
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