If you are coming into Lahaina for the first time, and want good local food or (grinez), stop by the Lahaina Square Shopping Center, you'll find some good local style foods. first of all there's Maui Tacos which is famous for their healthy Mex, or "Maui Mex" and right next door there's a really great Japanese dig called Zushi, it is operated by a one woman crew and she serves very simple foods of Japan, her specialties are her tempuras, and her chicken teri. Every plate comes with white sticky rice, macaroni salad, and miso soup, and you can't get this stuff anywhere else, but in Lahaina.
Mama is hard at work still bustin it for the lunch rush, it is 12:55 pm on a Monday in May, and the peoople keep on coming in, waiting up to 30 minutes at times for their meals, "I tell my boss I got a flat," says one local woman. People wait because the food is freshly made!
ZUSHI RESTAURANT
ILOCANDIA Filipino Store
If you are feeling adventurous, go to Ilocandia and get some Filipino staples, like Pinacbet, a somewhat stewed vegetables and pork dish with herbs and spices, usually eggplants, and beans are in it, with garlic and ginger and Patis (fish sauce), or the deep fried pork rinds sliced thick with rice, and you get your choice of condiments, vinegar infused with herbs, fish sauce, soy saue, hot sauce. And there's a few packaged items from the Philippines like candies, canned goods, frozen foods, snacks, so if you want something different to explore this little hole in the wall is very interesting.
NO. 1 BBQ
Korean Style
This is a new place just opened in 2009, and is a hit with the locals on the west side of Maui, as you can see the sign says it all breakfast $2.99, can't beat that, and the food is good, local style, if you are ever in Lahaina and want a good meal that is not your typical American fare, go here, it is definitely off the paths of Front Street, and parking is good, safe at nights. Many visitors tend to not go past the post office in Lahaina Town, so if you are in Lahaina, go and check this out.
And if you need a special meal custom made for you if you are a diabetic or have hypertension or cancer, call me and we can work something out.
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