Yesterday, we visited the Polynesian Cultural Center in North Eastern Oahu, about an hour up the East coast from Kailua. The "PCC" offers what is, by common Internet consent (tripadvisor etc.), the best Oahu Luau, and an authentic Polynesian experience.
This mostly turned out to be mean authentically Disneyesque. There were canoe pageants, mini villages representing different cultures, a massive Hawaiian-style feast (the "luau" of course), and a so-like-the-Lion-King-it-hurt pan-Polynesian theater show to top it all off. The production values were excellent, the organization superb, the scale massive, and the overall effect like being made to eat 500 portions of a favorite food in some well-orchestrated ironic-punishment department of Hell... At least, if you can imagine Hell being run by beautifully polite, foreign-born Mormon students from Oahu's Brigham-Young University. Really.
So... Somewhat impressive, somewhat enervating, and a little weird. With a pig.
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To be fair, the pig tasted pretty good.
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