This was our last day in Hawai’i… for now! We will definitely come back one day!
We stopped by Tom’s new favorite bakery, Punalu’u Bake Shop, where they have the best “donut-type thing” that he’s ever had! They had all sorts of local tropical flavors including guava, macadamia nut, and taro.
Punalu’u Bake Shop
In addition to baking all the Hawaiian sweet bread for the whole island, they also have a small store on site in which they sell fresh malasadas. Malasadas are Portugese fried donuts. When emigrants from Portugal came to work the island farms they brought this brick oven style bread with them. What we know as Hawaiian sweet bread is what evolved from those first workers here. So many people from different cultures arrived during the settlement of Hawai’i, and we still saw influences of that all around the island.
We then took the Jeep to a car wash to make sure we’d get our deposit back, and took a short flight to Oahu before catching a plane to meet our family in the Bahamas.
