Just responding generally to everything!

1) I find the need to be in Hawaii very odd full stop because Vietnam is well set up to film the military base/generic tropical stuff as well as all the jungly things. There is a former US air base at Danang which is apparently used for every Vietnam war movie ever (saw it when I visited).

2) I had heard Cambodia, I think from an interview with TH himself at the Baftas, which makes more sense because of jungle plus amazing temples. Visions of TH shirtless in the Tomb Raider temple with a Bowie knife between his teeth [fans self].

3) if he buys a Hawaiian shirt it will surely be blue.

4) bananas?

5) in England a porn-stache and a porn stash are 2 totally different things. Perhaps he was in Macy's buying a dvd of Emmanuelle to get himself in character?