Moonlight Dinner offered
Have dinner under the stars at Kalama Beach Club’s Moonlight Dinner, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
The menu includes blackened ahi, tabouli or crab salad, mochiko chicken, ham, grilled tofu with veggies, meatless fried rice and finger cakes, along with no-host beer and wine bar.
Oeno Winemaking will hold a wine tasting as well, and guests can also participate in a silent auction.
Tickets are $30. The Kailua club is at 280 N. Kalaheo Ave. Call Cindy Ling at 262-5995 or email her at info@kalamabeachclub.com.
Explore Chinatown food
Slow Food Oahu is holding three Slow Food Chinatown Tours through November.
Participants will learn a bit of history and culture while visiting Chinatown markets, bakeries, noodle factories, specialty shops, temples and other historic sites. The tour includes sampling local foods such as manapua, crack seed and lumpia while learning about food traditions.
Cost per tour, which includes lunch, is $55. The tours will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26 and Nov. 30. Go to bit.ly/sfoevents.
Maui event raises $28,000
A group of Maui chefs raised $28,000 for people on the Big Island affected by Tropical Storm Iselle through Project Kokua for Hawai‘i Island, a culinary fundraiser held Sept. 7 at Maui Tropical Plantation.
Chef Lyndon Honda, owner of Laulima Events & Catering, led a team that included chef Marc McDowell of the Millhouse and chef Jojo Vasquez of Plantation House as well as others.
More than 300 tickets were sold, and donations are still being accepted. Contact Honda at 989-4733 or by email at cheflyndonhonda@gmail.com.
Imu will benefit school
The Kailua High School athletic program plans to spend a weekend tending an imu and is offering space inside for trays of food.
Food goes into the underground oven Nov. 26, emerging Thanksgiving morning steamed full of luau flavor.
Cost is $25 per large aluminum tray. Food — such as whole turkeys, roasts or pork butt (meat chunks should have three deep cuts in them), sweet potatoes, taro or luau leaves — must be thawed, seasoned and well wrapped in foil.
Place the wrapped food in the pan and wrap everything in more foil. Write your name on the final foil wrap with a permanent marker pen. Weight limit per tray is 25 pounds.
Reservations due by Nov. 14. Make checks payable to Kailua High School and send to the school at 451 Ulumanu Drive, Kailua 96734. Write "Attention IMU" in lower left corner of the envelope.
Include your name, telephone number and a self-addressed, stamped envelope so a confirmation ticket can be sent to you. To be included in a list for future imu, provide email address as well.
Call 266-7910 or 728-7389.