First taste: Your Kitchen

The owners

Yasuyuki and Yukiko Asakura are the husband-and-wife team who run this tiny place, where food either comes off a six-burner stove, the shave ice machine, or from the dessert display case in front.

Yasuyuki and Yukiko moved from Tokyo to Honolulu only a year ago, and prior to opening Your Kitchen, Yasuyuki cooked at Tokyo-Tokyo at The Kahala Hotel & Resort. He mans the stove, and she takes care of the shave ice. Their English is limited and our Japanese vocabulary consists of domo arigato, so we stop talking and let them cook.