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Malia Yoshioka is a freelance Food & Travel Writer and ESL Tutor from Hawaii. She's slowly eating her way around the world, 43 countries and counting so far! Get behind the scenes news, travel tips and the best food stories from around the web in her weekly Aloha Friday newsletter.

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🗺📍Mapping Your Next Adventure

Happy Aloha Friday! Welcome to this week's roundup of tasty tidbits specially curated for you from Hawaii to Istanbul and everywhere in between... 👋 Hi Reader, This week I've got an exciting collaboration with Michelle at Intentional Travelers as she gears up for the relaunch of her Google Maps Travel Hacks course, a step-by-step system to help you travel with confidence. You may know that I'm also a huge Google Maps fan since it's part of my own strategy to avoid tourist trap restaurants...

Happy Aloha Friday! Welcome to this week's roundup of tasty tidbits specially curated for you from Hawaii to Istanbul and everywhere in between... This week's newsletter is a day late, forgive me. Last week, I returned to Istanbul and it feels like there's been a certain heaviness in the air, with the stirrings of change...While I was away, the weather had been warm and spring-like, but as the week progressed the temperature dropped once again. Days of clear blue sky now alternate with moody,...

A collage of images from the Kalamata Open Market: special varieties of tomatoes, fresh fish, fresh coriander stems and language tips from Maria Monastirioti from Mama's Flavors.

Happy Aloha Friday! Welcome to this week's roundup of tasty tidbits specially curated for you from Hawaii to Istanbul and everywhere in between... ☀ Kalimera from Kalamata, I’ll be here for the next few days for a campaign called #MyPeloponneseVibe. As you might have guessed, MY Peloponnese Vibe revolves around food, language and connecting with locals! It’s my second time in Kalamata, and I’ve spent a good deal of my trip in the old town area around their wonderful open market. I was joined...

Pizza margherita from Antica Pizzeria da Michele in Naples, Italy

Happy Aloha Friday! Welcome to this week's roundup of tasty tidbits specially curated for you from Hawaii to Istanbul and everywhere in between... 👋 Hi friends,It's no secret I love visiting markets in any new city when I travel. So when I visited Naples, it was great to get a recommendations from someone who is from there - none other than Chicca from Chicca's Cooking Club! I also had a chance to catch up with Jedd & Michelle from Intentional Travelers before they all caught their train. The...

Happy Aloha Friday! Welcome to this week's roundup of tasty tidbits specially curated for you from Hawaii to Istanbul and everywhere in between... 👋 Hi friends!I'm heading on a quick trip to a new-to-me destination this week, Naples! I've been drooling over my friend Jon's recommendations for the best pizza in Napoli. This is the time where I turn to the experts in our Savor the Journey Facebook group for advice and recommendations and as usual, they've got great ones! Have you been to...

Happy Aloha Friday! Welcome to this week's roundup of tasty tidbits specially curated for you from Hawaii to Istanbul and everywhere in between... 👋 Hi friends!Last week, I asked you to vote for which language I should try out from Rocket Languages and the winner was.... Sign Language! So I'll be testing this out for the next few weeks, along with Spanish, Japanese and Korean.If you'd like to try out Rocket Languages, there's a few more hours left in their Valentine's Sale where you can get...

A Duolingo card for Hawaiian: Hawaiian flag above a Hawaiian language phrase: Hu ka pika o keia Kai nioi, which means "Woah, this chili pepper water is spicy!"

Happy Aloha Friday! Welcome to this week's roundup of tasty tidbits specially curated for you from Hawaii to Istanbul and everywhere in between... 👋 Hi friends!February is Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Language Month) and it got me thinking about how many more resources are available these days vs when I was growing up. Here's an ʻŌlelo no'eau recorded by Mary Kawena Pukui: "I ka ʻōlelo nō ke ola, i ka ʻōlelo nō ka make.""In language, there is life; in language, there is death."– Words have...

Four types of poke, three spam musubis and various canned drinks form a "poke battle" picnic to find Maui's best poke.

Happy Aloha Friday! Welcome to this week's roundup of tasty tidbits specially curated for you from Hawaii to Istanbul and everywhere in between... 👋 Hi friends!Happy Lunar New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai to those who are celebrating the Year of the Snake! In Hawaii, we have some local-style Chinese recipes that we associate with the holidays, so I'm sharing these from 'Ono Hawaiian Recipes. Next we travel to Japan for another holiday to welcome in the transition from winter to spring, Setsubun!...

Happy Aloha Friday! Welcome to this week's roundup of tasty tidbits specially curated for you from Hawaii to Istanbul and everywhere in between... This email may contain affiliate links, which means purchases made through those links earn me a commission, at no extra cost to you. For details, please see my privacy policy. You can unsubscribe from this list at any time from the bottom of the email. Last week I had a chance to sit down with my former boss from Hawaii Food Tours, Matthew Gray...

Caddebostan seaside park in Istanbul, with green grass and a tree-lined bike path and pedestrian promenade near the seaside.

Happy Aloha Friday! Welcome to this week's roundup of tasty tidbits specially curated for you from Hawaii to Istanbul and everywhere in between... This email may contain affiliate links, which means purchases made through those links earn me a commission, at no extra cost to you. For details, please see my privacy policy. You can unsubscribe from this list at any time from the bottom of the email. My latest post is on my favorite parks in Istanbul for all seasons. Whether it's the tulips in...