7:00 a.m., Friday  Aloha tofu factory, Kalihi Photography by Olivier Koning >> Kam Lan Sou of Aloha Tofu pours water over blocks of freshly made tofu. Tofu mostly consists of water and must be kept from drying out during the journey from…

9:10 A.M., Thursday Aiea Photography by Olivier Koning >> Mika Fonoti of Access Information Management Hawaii stands in front of 1,200-pound bales of shredded documents. Every month, the company destroys more than 500,000 pounds of material containing confidential information. Its shredder has…

12:35 P.m., Wednesday  Coconut Island Photography by David Croxford >> Last year, more than 4,000 people visited Coconut Island, home to the University of Hawaii’s Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. One of the institute’s research projects is on the echolocation…

9 a.m., Tuesday Honolulu Zoo > About 550,000 people come to the Honolulu Zoo every year to check out 221 species of animals, including these crocodile-like gharials being fed by Jamieson Martinez. Gharials, a critically endangered species native to the…

Oh Wow, Lau Lau! 11:25 A.M., Friday, Highway Inn, Waipahu >> Highway Inn owner Bobby Toguchi, son of founder Seiichi Toguchi, still hand-wraps the lau lau at his Waipahu eatery. About 150 to 190 lau lau are prepared each day.…

  Traffic Central 10:03 A.m., Wednesday Honolulu Traffic Management Center Kinalau Place, near Ward Avenue >> Staff here control more than 350 traffic signals within Honolulu’s central business district. Cameras at major intersections provide live images 24 hours a day,…

6:34 A.m., Monday  Hawaiian Airlines MAINTENANCE HANGAR  Honolulu International Airport >> This Boeing 717 pulled in at 10 p.m. the night before and the maintenance crew went to work overhauling the right engine. Engines are overhauled after a set number…