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Mele Luau, which opened last month at Coral Crater Adventure Park in Kapolei, 30 minutes from Waikiki, offers everything you’d expect at a luau: food, drinks and a show. But this Lua prides itself on being sustainable.
“The product is an ecological luau,” says Larry Pellegrini, producer and creative director of Mele Lua. “We only use solar energy, and we work hard to ensure that all the ingredients of the physical product are used and returned to the earth. We have goats and chickens on the property that use leftovers for dinner.”
The melee ends with the fire knife dancers. Photo credit: Courtesy Mele Luau
A very intimate place, the product was created entirely by Hawaiians who love the culture and especially everything. The creative family also participated in the show.
“We have amazing choreographers from Maui who have worked on their unique cultural heritage creating all the dances on Oahu with two local tunes,” he said. “Our stage was built by the choreographer’s father on a weekend flight to Oahu. It took three months to build the stage, two dressing rooms and a lighting booth that looks like a treehouse.”
The evening begins with a Shell Le greeting, a welcome drink and pre-events that visitors can participate in, including poi ball rolling and face hat making from the trees on the property. The emu ceremony is next, a cooked pig is taken in an underground oven. This marks the beginning of dinner — all-you-can-eat kala-pork sliders, teriyaki chicken, mahimahi, macaroni salad, haupia for dessert and four signature hot drinks.
Some of the dishes served at the Mele Luau all-you-can-eat buffet. Photo credit: Courtesy Mele Luau
The show is a love story that follows the male protagonist, Tamatoa, on a quest to find the woman of his dreams across various Pacific islands. After traveling to Samoa and then Aotearoa (New Zealand), he arrived in Hawaii and met her.
“It culminates in a field of fire knives that showcases three generations who have been honing their fire knife skills for decades,” Pellegrini said. It also features original songs by Na Hoku Hanohano-nominated writer and performer Kanyala Masoe.
The luau lasts three hours and transportation is available from Waikiki and Ko Olina. Prices start at $119.97 per person.
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