My Stint as a Royal Prince

by | Jun 5, 2015 | Cultures of Polynesia

During my senior year in high school, I was chosen to be the first ever prince in the royal court on the Big Island of Hawaii. While sitting directly across of Uncle George Naope (former kumu hula, master Hawaiian chanter, co-founder of the annual Merry Monarch...
Hawaiian Pickled Mango Recipe

Hawaiian Pickled Mango Recipe

by | Jun 2, 2015 | Eat Polynesia!

This month we are celebrating an island favorite by providing two great recipes! But we want to share the backstory of WHY it has to be two first:  It is just a week or two away from mango season. Mangoes, a flavorful and easy to prepare tropical fruit, is plentiful...

May 2015 Laie Community Update

by | May 18, 2015 | News at the Center

In other PCC and related news We share several additional noteworthy items with you: •     New president to lead BYU-Hawaii:  John S. Tanner, an English professor and former academic vice president of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, has been named as the...

2015 World Fire Knife Championship Heats Up PCC

by | May 18, 2015 | News at the Center

For the past 23 years the Polynesian Cultural Center has brought together many of the finest, most exciting Samoan knife dancers in the world — and please note, not all of them are ethnic Samoans — to compete for the title of World Fire Knife Champion.  Over...

Polynesian Men Do All the Cooking?

by | May 6, 2015 | Cultures of Polynesia, Samoa

Up and until the time I entered college, I had no idea that men do all the cooking anywhere.  Certainly not in my home, though my dad was a good cook himself.  Unfortunately, his genes never got passed down to me.  It wasn’t until I started working at the Polynesian...

Laie Community Update

by | Apr 22, 2015 | News at the Center

Laie Community Updates New Laie hotel: Work continues on the new Laie Courtyard by Marriott Hotel, with an official opening date still listed as “mid-summer” this year. Meanwhile, Lodging Dynamics, the new hotel’s managing partner, recently announced its executive...

Sesquicentennial

by | Apr 22, 2015 | News at the Center

Laie sesquicentennial celebration: In early 1865 — 150 years ago — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased the two ahupuaa [traditional Hawaiian land divisions] of Laie, and established the small community as a Mormon plantation, headquarters and...