Make sure whatever ones you choose, you get the Kurogoma (black sesame seed) flavor. They’re definitely a conversation piece and a great idea to bring a box to the next office meeting and wow your coworkers. Fortunately he told me they’ll be getting their own fryer soon, so when that happens I’ll return to try more flavors. That’s pretty much the only gripe I have. So by the time you eat them, they’re already cold. As it stands at the MoDo Hawaii location in Waikiki, the manager told me they’re made off-site at Watanabe Bakery on Beretania Street and brought to the Waikiki shop every morning.
Like any doughnut or anything deep-fried for that matter, I think these Mochi Donuts have potential to be great if you can get them pipin’ hot right after they come out of the fryer. All it tasted like was a “something earthy” ‘n sweet glaze. The Matcha Green Tea was the weakest of the three, where I could only faintly taste the green tea. Very unique and oishii! Second place goes to the Cookies & Cream, which tastes pretty much identical to the Hershey’s White Chocolate-based Cookies & Cream candy bar. It has a nutty, earthy, sweet ‘n salty “twang” to it that really complimented the slightly chewy ‘n starchy donut. So its best you pop each section in your mouth in one bite or it falls apart like this.Īnd which did I like best? Hands down the Kuro Goma (Black Sesame) Mochi Donut was the best of the three. Like exactly 50% of one side each donut.Ībove you can see when I cut it in half using a kitchen shears, the hard-like-a-shell Cookies & Cream glaze easily dislodged itself from the mochi donut section. I suppose it kinda’ tastes more “starchy” than a standard donut, however that starchiness gets pretty much masked by the thick coating of sweet glaze coating the entire top half of it. In reality, the “mochi” part of its name is more a novelty than the reality of what its texture is like. Just a little though, where you have to chew it a bit more, but not too much more. Looking at that, being they use Mochi (rice) flour, as you’d expect, they’re a little more chewy than your typical American donut. Speaking of sex, here I have the “money shot” cross-cut view of a section of the Kuro Goma Mochi Donut. Its bead bracelet design makes them easy to neatly break off a section at a time for sharing and to pop in your mouth in one easy bite. Looks kinda’ like something kinky you’d find in a sex shop, if you ask me. As you can tell, they’re cooked in a special mold that gives Mochi Donuts this unique shape. They each measure 3-3/4″ in diameter x 1-1/8″ in thickness of each “ball” the 8-section mochi donut is made up of. Here I have my choices, which are again Matcha Green Tea ($1.75), Kuro Black Sesame ($1.95) and Cookies & Cream ($1.95). If you buy 4 or more, they put them in a nice Modo Hawaii Mochi Donut box, otherwise you get them in individual packages like this. Rounding it up, Lilikoi Passion Fruit, Strawberry, Earl Grey and Matcha Green Tea, ranging $1.75 to $1.95 each. Moving along, above we have Chocolate, Key Lime, Cookies & Cream and new Pumpkin Spice, ranging $1.65 to $2.05 each. Sounds like a diverse enough variety, which even the manager on duty said those were excellent first time choices.īefore we get to my choices, lets see the the entire selection, where here above we have Hawaiian Honey Glaze, White Chocolate and Kurogoma (Black Sesame) and Illy (Italian Coffee) Espresso, ranging from $1.50 to $1.95 each. So I went in this morning to try three MoDo Mochi Donut flavors for the first time: Matcha Green Tea, Cookies & Cream and Kuro Black Sesame. Thus, there shouldn’t be any issue with being sold out, unless of course someone comes in and hordes.
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They have large baking pans full of the mochi donuts for customers on baking racks in the back. While they are real, actual Mochi Donuts (not plastic fake ones called “sampuru”), they don’t give these out to customers. Note, the display of Mochi Donuts at the front counter as shown above are for display purpose only. Where along with Modo Hawaii in Waikiki, you can also get them direct at Watanabe Bakery on Beretania (again, the parent company of MoDo Hawaii), Duke’s Lane Market & Eatery Bakery and Liliha Bakery.
I heard about this place through fellow Hawaii Mom Blogger Gem Nishimura, who published a post on several places on Oahu to get Mochi Donuts.
With Watanabe Bakery being its parent company, MoDo Hawaii is essentially a Japanese Mochi Donut shop, also serving Illy Italian coffee to go along with that if you like (I usually don’t drink coffee). You’ll also find Iyasume Musubi back there (da’ best musubi on the island!) and an expansive obento-ya. Specifically, Modo Hawaii is located in the back of Mitsuwa in the food court area next to Hokkaido Ramen Santouka. MoDo Hawaii opened in July of this year in the MItsuwa Marketplace (a Japanese supermarket), located in the Waikiki International Market Place.
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