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Tamashiro Market
Tamashiro Market is a family-run seafood market located in Downtown Honolulu on North King Street for over 60 years. It was founded by Walter Tamashiro after a tsumani hit Hilo in 1946, where the Tamashiro family previously lived. Fresh fish sales are 75 percent of the market's business. The market also sells prepared Poke (dish), poké, fish jerky, various sea vegetables and edible seaweeds, and a range of tropical fruits. History In 1913, Chogen Tamashiro emigrated to Hawaii from Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa, Japan. He was 14 years old at the time, and came to Hawaii to work on a Plantation, sugar plantation, which he eventually purchased some decades later. Tamashiro and his wife Iris Yohiko had a son, Walter, on December 11, 1929 in Hilo, Hawaii, Hilo. The elder Tamashiro first opened Tamashiro Market in 1941, a farm store in Hilo, however after a 1946 tsunami destroyed much of Hilo, he and his family moved to Oahu, to open the market in Honolulu. In 1954, his son, Walter, cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crab Sign, Tamashiro Market, King Street, Palama, Honolulu, HI (52129237667)
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura (meaning "short tailed" in Greek language, Greek), which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen#Arthropoda, abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the Thorax (arthropod anatomy), thorax. Their exoskeleton is often Sclerotization, thickened and hard. They generally have Arthropod leg, five pairs of legs, and they have "Pincers (tool), pincers" or "claws" on the ends of the frontmost pair, scientifically termed the ''chelae''. They are present in all the world's oceans, Freshwater crab, in freshwater, and Terrestrial crab, on land, often hiding themselves in small crevices or burrowing into sediment. Crabs are omnivores, feeding on a variety of food, including a significant proportion of Algae eater, algae, as well as Detritivore, detritus and other invertebrates. Crab meat, Crabs are widely consumed by humans as food, with over 1.5 million tonnes Crab fisheries, caught annually. True crabs first appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
