Today’s the last full day we have in Honolulu, because we leave for our flight back to Singapore early tomorrow morning. We decided to all have lunch together at a nearby Chinese restaurant called Happy Days. Easy to find, thanks to GPS navigation again. We had dim sum and ordered a few other dishes. I found myself liking the chilli particularly. Then I realized that I haven’t had any chilli since stepping foot in the US. I don’t know if the chilli at Happy Days was really that good, or that I was simply missing the taste of chilli.
The food at Happy Days was quite good anyway, with chilli or not. It was far better than the disappointing Panda Express I had earlier at Kahala Mall. We ate our fill and had to pack some remainder to go.
After lunch, we decided to make a stop for some last minute shopping. Apart from the Premium Outlets, we were told that Ross also had good clothing bargains. So that’s where we headed for, the Ross store at Keahole Street. It’s not a very biggish place, but it’s a no frills store, no fancy displays, no mannequins. All the merchandize were compactly racked. Clothes were not sorted by brand sections, but by type and size. E.g. men’s jeans, then by size. So you have a mixture of all sort of jeans brands together. It makes sense, I suppose, because they don’t really have all sizes for any particular type. So, just focus your shopping around the sizes that fit you.
The prices at Ross were competitive for some types of clothing, but not for everything. I found, for example, the Addidas apparels not differently priced from those at the Premium Outlets. But CK tees at US$7.49 and Levi’s jeans at US$19 were a steal.
If I were to ever come to the US again, I should probably make it a point to drop by a Ross store.
I also dropped by a storage company to buy some boxes. We need extra packing space to bring back all our shopping. There’s no way we could pack them back into the luggages we came here with, despite various consumables having been expended. In fact, when we spent the rest of the evening and night packing, we were almost unable to fit everything in. Although we had an extra box to spare, we tried to make do with just one of the storage boxes we bought (18″ x 18″ x 16″ size), and it was bursting at its seams.
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