Book Cave chef for private event

Here’s an ultimate foodie experience: Get a personally guided tour of a farmers market or the Honolulu fish auction with local chef Chris Kajioka of Vintage Cave. Or better yet, have the James Beard semifinalist cook a multicourse meal at your home for you and nine of your best friends.

These specialty luxury "experiences" are organized by IfOnly, event organizers who bring celebrity chefs, athletes and musicians together with fans for exclusive events. Proceeds from the experiences benefit an organization of the celebrity’s choice. Kajioka has selected the James Beard Foundation as his beneficiary.

Naturally, such personalized attention comes for a pretty penny. The tours have a price tag of $1,300, while the cost of the dinner is priced according to menu and other factors.

Kajioka’s experiences are Hawaii-based, so isle-bound vacationers are also welcome to book an event. Visit ifonly.com.

Feast on food of Myanmar

Enjoy an all-you-can-eat buffet of food from Myanmar at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Thingyan Festival at Wilson Elementary School.

The menu features mohinga, Myanmar’s national dish of noodles and fish soup, and other food, such as let-phet thoke (pickled tea leaves salad with fried peas and nuts), ginger salad and shwe yin aye (a dessert made of gelatin and coconut).

The event runs 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 4945 Kilauea Ave. Families can cool off with the water-throwing ceremony and other activities. Cost is $10. Call Thawdar at 851-7010.

Event highlights role of bees

Learn why bees are vital to the survival of the planet Sunday at Church of World Messianity Hawaii.

Beekeepers Ken Harmeyer and Melissa Yee, and marine biologist Javier Mendez will speak about the issue, followed by a screening of the 2009 documentary "Vanishing of the Bees." The film covers how honeybees are essential to the food system. The free event runs 2 to 4 p.m. The church is at 1726 Royal Palm Drive in Wahiawa.

Call Mitsuko Hayakawa at 206-0908 or email foodsovereigntynow@gmail.com.

Center plans benefit dinner

The Bodhi Tree Dharma Center is holding a fundraising dinner of Vietnamese and Burmese cuisine from 5 to 7 p.m. May 3.

The dinner will be followed by other activities through 9 p.m.

Dinner tickets are $25, available at Bodhi Tree, 654 A N. Judd St. Call Margy at 537-1171 or email dbodhitree@ gmail.com.