Liliha Bakery

"Known for poi (taro) mochi donuts"

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"Liliha Bakery’s beloved cases are stocked with mochi donuts, rainbow layer cakes, and (the local favorite) Coco Puffs, a chocolate-pudding filled cream puff topped with butter frosting. But the original Liliha Bakery also happens to double as a legendary diner, serving excellent crisp waffles, butter rolls with nuclear red jelly, and oxtail soup. Though the business now includes five locations, a seat at the counter of the original Liliha on Kuakini Street is still the best move. In most of the world, “chantilly” means whipped cream. In Hawai‘i, “chantilly” means a mixture of egg yolks, butter, evaporated milk, sugar, and just a bit of salt. It’s beaten, and functions as a cake frosting or cake filling — or, really, can be applied to anything to add a touch of something sweet-savory and super buttery. Local chantilly is very much a “Hawai‘i only” thing, maple custard in color and undeniably rich. Chantilly shows up most famously piped atop the Coco Puffs from Liliha Bakery, a local institution, where choux pastry puffs are filled with chocolate pudding and finished with a healthy dollop of chantilly (they sell a whopping 10,000 a day!). Liliha also makes a Chantilly Cake which layers a light (almost chiffon-esque) chocolate cake with the chantilly. Some prefer Saint Germain’s Chantilly Cake, more restrained with delicate chiffon cake layers."

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"Liliha Bakery’s coco puffs — cream puffs filled with chocolate pudding and topped with a buttery “chantilly” frosting — draw tourists and locals alike, but it’s the diner side that nurtures everyday hungers. From retirees in the morning to those restless in love and insomnia late at the night, diners find comfort here, eased along by the quietly friendly women who have worked the counter for decades and the no-frills Hawai‘i/American menu of saimin, hamburgers, country omelet, and an incomparably light and crispy thin waffle."

@benvalli

"Bakery and diner/breakfast Eater"

@lesliekarp

"Best pastries on Oahu. The cream puffs, chocolate eclairs, poi donuts, apple turnovers, and Napoleons are to die for."

@travelitis

"original coco puff, hot cakes are pancakes very good menu"

@michela.taddeo13

"poi mochi donut, ox tail soup, loco moco, shrimp plate"

@elijahflrs

"Incredible Cocoa Puffs. They also have a little area for dining in and do breakfast and lunch"

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"Matcha/original cream puffs, poi donuts"

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"Famous for their cream puffs"

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"3 of these. Get cream puffs...or donuts "

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"the doors open all night so nobody misses out on the macadamia nut Chantilly frosting that tops the Cocoa Puffs "

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