Girls and boys eating ice cream in the shop Matsumoto's Shave Ice. Haleiwa. O'ahu. Hawaii. Flavored Shave Ice from Matsumoto's G
Girls and boys eating ice cream in the shop Matsumoto's Shave Ice. Haleiwa. O'ahu. Hawaii. Flavored Shave Ice from Matsumoto's Grocery Store on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Shave ice is a local specialty found throughout the islands, but Matsumoto stands out for being the oldest continuously run operation on Oahu, going back more than half a century. "When you come to Hawaii, you have to eat shave ice, Leonard's malasada and poke," said owner Stanley Matsumoto, who runs the operation with his wife, Noriko. "It's part of the tradition of Hawaii." (Another tradition: Using the pidgin English variant of "shaved ice," which omits the "d."). The line outside the store is a common sight on Kamehameha Highway, and on a weekend afternoon, it was moving along like a snail in sneakers. After 30 minutes, Zagami had in hand a pineapple- and coconut-flavored ice atop vanilla ice cream and azuki beans. "You get in line and you talk story," he said before taking a much-anticipated first bite.
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