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Craft ice cream, smash burgers, ramen and a Japanese sando shop: What’s coming to the O‘ahu food scene.

Updated 2/9/21, 12 p.m. The pandemic has been difficult for many local restaurants, but one restaurateur keeps fighting in the same spirit as his father. The Aoki Group manages several restaurants on Oahu, including Doraku Sushi and Blue Tree Café. The company was also set to open 1938 Indochine and Qing Mu Noodles Company in Kakaako just as the pandemic hit last March. And while the restaurants have operated since then, the two Kakaako restaurants were burglarized in December. "This pandemic,...