I got friends vacationing in Hawaii. Is there anything non perishable I should ask them to get me that wouldn't be easily obtainable in the mainland?
I got friends vacationing in Hawaii...
Cameron Price
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Matthew Martin
Ceviche
Kayden Edwards
I'm going to be vacationing there too and am curious.
I know my lawyer goes often and brings back coffee beans.
Nathan Collins
Macadamia nuts, coconut water and Kona coffe
Caleb Murphy
Coffee
Cameron Green
Poi balls, a grass skirt with a coconut shell bra.
Connor Taylor
On Oahu, there is a macadamia nut farm that sells chocolate covered macadamia nuts in 2-gallon jars. They have other stuff too. Most of the pineapple you eat is already grown in Hawaii, but Hawaii is where they sell the most misshapen ones.
Easton Richardson
Get some taro/luau leaves (make squid luau and lau lau), a musubi mold, and some cheap tabis for hiking (pic related, it's tabis). If it's good friends tell them to get you a nice Hawaiian shirt, too, and maybe some real surf shorts, not that embarrassing crap they sell on the mainland. All the touristy foods you can pretty much find on the mainland (coffee, macadamia nuts, etc.) for marginally more. You could ask them to pick up a variety of crack seed shit for you to try, or at least a few different bags of li hing mui and li hing mui flavored candy (which is sold in regular grocery stores, and is hard to find on the mainland).
Jaxson Myers
A big sack of Maui Wowie
Noah Rogers
No. there is literally nothing native to hawaii that isn't vastly inferior to mainland goods. before white people came they lived on root mush and fish, user, and all the fish are gone now
Brandon Barnes
Chocolate covered macadamia nuts.
Oliver Robinson
Calm down, Thurgood Jenkins
Josiah Hill
>he thinks the contemporary local population and culture of hawaii has much of anything to do with native hawaiians
Confirmed for not knowing shit.
Michael Martin
Ha. He's a fucking janitor.
Camden Young
Spam.
Xavier Edwards
Poi can no longer be exported due to the plant almost being extinct.
Nolan Ramirez
If that weren't already the dumbest thing I've ever heard, you do realize that poi balls are completely different from poi, right?
Wyatt Mitchell
macademedium nuts, coffee beans. shit like that
Thomas Campbell
>poi
taro is in no way going extinct, and you can get it anywhere
Parker Thompson
>I got friends vacationing in Hawaii. Is there anything non perishable I should ask them to get me that wouldn't be easily obtainable in the mainland?
Not really, user.
But, they do have some greater selection of Hawaiian snack foods that are very pacific rim asian items, like dried plum candies, fish jerky, chewy shredded cuttlefish. But, you can get almost anything online.
Unless they are very good friends that asked you, don't ask them to bring you anything, imho. I'm a frequent traveler. Ever since 911, I don't really bring stuff back anymore. I used to fill up bags with local booze, a bottle a friend. Too inconvenient now. I guess if they visit a kona farm and got fresh roasted...but otherwise everything in hawaii is a tourist priced ripoff, and cheaper at home like from amazon. There's a drink mix version of their fruit punch, forget what it's called but they serve it on the airlines. Get some ideas here:
snackhawaii.com
Oh, clothingwise, you give them $100, they could get you a silk tropical shirt from one of the bigger names there. It'd be a lifetime purchase if it were silk. HiloHatties for women was the source for a real muumuu (but now a crap brand featuring rayon). Examples of someone still doing it right:
avantishirts.com
Are you a coffee drinker? Alcoholic? Decent gifts are coffee mugs you can enjoy daily, or shot glasses to add to your collection (tiki one?). Just ask for something "unusual." I collect cookbooks of local fame, which are often vanity published, and not on amazon. Even a 2nd hand bookstore are treasures from old now closed restaurants (trader vics), historical hotels, local junior leagues, and stuff.
Henry Flores
As a former Hawaii user who's looked into Hawaiian snack import sites like your snackhawaii, they are much more expensive than buying on island. It's also kind of special when a friend picks up a gift especially for you...
Owen Sanchez
Spam
Joshua White
If you're into psychedelics Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds and mimosa root bark
Christopher Ramirez
One macadamia product that I've found bizarrely difficult to purchase outside of Hawaii is honey roasted macadamias. They're also the most delicious. Ask for a bag.