New Bakery Sachi Sweets Combines Japanese and Local Flavors
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Shades of Shave Ice: Holo Holo for Halo Halo in Waipahu
From the O.G. Mahalo Halo to mais con yelo and beyond—Magnolia Ice Cream and Treats brings us home with soulful shave ice vibes.
Ube Churros, Lumpia, Sisig Tacos: Pusong Filipinx Market Is This Sunday
The showcase of more than two dozen vendors selling food, clothes, jewelry and more is free and open to the public.
Two New Pop-Ups Turned This Concert Venue Into a Vegan Hotspot
Get your plant-based fast-food fix and top it off with a pint of dairy-free ice cream at HB Social Club.
There's Mochi Malassadas in Waikīkī
Dukes Lane Market & Eatery sells sweetly chewy ube, mango and original mochi malassadas.
Not your nana’s cooking: Ube churros and lechon fries
Growing up, I never saw Filipino food as special. Granted, my family is Filipino and we always ate pancit, pinakbet, adobo and other standard dishes. But the only thing that wowed me was the roasted lechon pig at parties, sprawled…
Ultimate ube roundup
Ube. Some know it as the thing that give desserts a pretty purple color. Others know it as the tuberous root Dioscorea alata. Filipinos know it as the pride and joy of the Philippines, alongside Manny Pacquiao. Whatever you know it as, ube seems…
Caffeine fix: Kailua has a new coffee truck
I love starting my day with coffee, so much that I often order Americano or espresso for the caffeine content even though I don’t enjoy the bitter taste. What I really love are Frappuccinos, but the high sugar content means…
Hidden gem: Uber Factory
Andy Dalan loves ube so much, he’s created a trail of dishes featuring the purple yam. At Yogurstory he concocted ube pancakes and won the Rice Festival cooking contest with another ube creation. In 2014, instead of making a cake…
Something new: Magnolia Ice Cream & Treats
Magnolia, the self-proclaimed “halo-halo place” known for its wealth of Filipino ice cream flavors, grand-opened their very first scoop shop last week in Waipahu’s Seafood City. With almost two dozen flavors available, Magnolia serves up exotic flavors like buko pandan…
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