Even though the chocolate shell with toasted coconut shavings looks like the fruit’s husk, every part of the dessert is edible. Plus, this is a beautiful dessert-you’ll want to Instagram every rounded edge of this work of art before digging into its creamy sorbet. Made with haupia sorbet, lilikoi(passionfruit) sauce from Hawaii Island and fresh, seasonal fruits, it’s the ideal combination of sweet and tangy. (UPDATE: Alan Wong’s Honolulu closed permanently in 2020.)Īlan Wong has crafted everything you could want in a dessert with this one. Star Noodle, 286 Kupuohi St., Lahaina, Maui, (808) 667-5400, Hamura Saimin Stand, 2956 Kress. If you want to really steep yourself in some old-school nostalgia, though, you need to find a favorite mom-and-pop, the kind that have been community staples for generations, like Hamura Saimin Stand on Kauai or the original Shiro’s Saimin Haven location in Aiea on Oahu, which has over 60 saimin options to choose from. Star Noodle on Maui is one of the island’s go-to saimin shops. It’s become so iconic you can order it at sporting events at Aloha Stadium, even McDonald’s locations across Hawaii. You can taste how the recipe has been touched by Hawai‘i history’s different immigrant groups, primarily the thin Chinese chow mein-inspired noodles wading in a Japanese dashi broth.Īs more migrations followed, more ingredients informally entered the mix-green onions, kamaboko, kimchi, Portuguese sausage, Spam-to create the recognizable bowls of saimin you see today. One of Hawaii’s most traditional local foods, saimin is an iteration of a Chinese egg-noodle soup that was developed during the Islands’ plantation era. Added to the bottom, ice cream is one of the most popular shave ice extras, as well as azuki beans-Japanese red beans boiled with sugar and pressed into a sweet paste-and mochi balls.įor other natural, locally sourced shave-ice joints, visit One Aloha Shave Ice in Kailua-Kona on Hawaii Island, Ululani’s Shave Ice on Maui and Wailua Shave Ice in Kapaa on Kauai. Their shave ice is made even more gourmet with Tropical Dreams vanilla ice cream, made in Kamuela, Hawaii Island. ![]() For a sweeter shave ice, get a chocolate version made with Waialua chocolate. The east Honolulu shave ice counter, opened by Uncle Clay Chang and his nephew Bronson, features local strawberries and pineapple. Uncle Clay’s House of Pure Aloha in the AinaHaina Shopping Center on Oahu crafts each shave ice cup with natural syrups. Plantation workers would use their machetes to finely shave the ice from large ice blocks, then pour fruit juice over the fluffy ice. Japanese laborers, contracted to work in Hawaii sugar and pineapple fields, brought shave ice with them. ![]() In many ways, this evolved shave ice recaptures the cool cones’ history. It’s becoming easier to get a bowl of finely shaved ice over which housemade, all natural, locally sourced syrups are generously poured. ![]() Hawaii’s iconic frozen treat is now part of the Islands’ farm-to-table movement. For a classic Hawaiian plate, visit the James Beard Award-winning Helena’s Hawaiian Food, open since 1946. Mix and match it however you like, and eat until you kanak attack (want to go into a food coma). Order a scoop of rice with kalua pig on top, pork or chicken laulau (wrapped in ti leaves), pipikaula (dried beef) and lomi salmon on the side, with a helping of poi (taro, cooked, pounded and thinned with water), and kulolo (taro and coconut cream pudding) or haupia (coconut cream pudding) for dessert. It doesn’t matter if you find it at a restaurant, lunch wagon or somebody’s house when in Hawaii, you have to do what the locals do: get a plate of Hawaiian food.
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