We found some good reviews on a malasada place in Lahaina that we wanted to try out this morning. There was conflicting information online as far as what time they opened this morning so last night we called the number that we found hoping to find out what time they open so we didn’t show up too early or too late. Justin called the number and didn’t get an answer; however, they called him immediately back and when Justin asked what time they would be opening in the morning the guy said he’s the cook and they are planning to open at 6:30am however he likely wouldn’t open till after 7am and then he stated that that’s basically how things roll in Hawaii - very relaxed. He told us that his name was Ben and that when we came we should mention that he had talked to us last night and that he would hook us up. He noticed that Justin’s area code was (206) and since he used to live in the Seattle area we were apparently cool. We were surprised when we pulled up and saw that his shop was basically some folding tables under a canopy right outside of a church building. Ben had just gone inside the church so his daughter was taking orders. We ordered a half dozen (sugarcoated, one smore, one chocolate filled, and one passion fruit filled). When Ben came back outside and we made the connection with him he got right to work. He made a special malasada for us coded in a sugar candy coating and then filled it with passion fruit filling. That was by far my favorite. He also cooked us a chocolate malasada with chocolate filling and made Justin a special malasada with a slice of fried spam in the middle. Then he filled a brown paper bag with a bunch of sugarcoated malasadas for us to take on the go. We knew from the short conversation we had with him on the phone the night before that he was a chatty character and it certainly was the case this morning as well. We visited with him for quite a while and he fed us the entire time.
This morning was our obligatory sales presentation. Within moments the sales lady had found out we had five kids, didn’t like cruising Carnival since I expressed it wasn’t family friendly, to which she asked if we were LDS and apparently she was as well. Anyhow, she had a job to do and we ended up much more interested that for our good. No, we didn’t buy anything, but it always sounds so tempting. The most tempting was the access owners get to overstock lodging around the world. We got to play around with the website and you can get week long rentals for CHEAP – like $30 a night. That was hard to pass up.
We spend the rest of the afternoon lounging in the sun. We played a round of corn hole which was a very close match.
We went into Lahaina for dinner and ate at the Lahaina Pizza Company. We were seated outside, and had a beautiful view of the ocean, but it was CHILLLY! I forget to take a picture of a our deep dish pizza, but it was yum.
Topped off dinner with another round of Uluani’s shaved ice.
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