![]() ![]() "It’s scary to write about a place that’s not your own," she said in a phone interview from her home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. ![]() The 27-year-old author admitted to being nervous about her upcoming reading in Honolulu on Saturday. In April, HarperCollins published Wong’s first novel, "Diamond Head," which the author hopes will appeal to Hawaii tastes. "It was a little adjusted for mainland tastes," Wong said, noting that the most popular order remains teriyaki chicken, mac salad and banana bread. When she was 7 years old, her family moved from Honolulu to Eugene, Ore., where her parents, Kono and Susan Wong, opened a Hawaii-style plate-lunch restaurant called the HodgePodge. Cecily Wong might not know her way around Oahu all that well, but she does know from local food. ![]()
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