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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. The kuro was just as good as on our last visit but the azuki and the spring-like key lime were right up there too.MoDo Hawaii opened in July of this year in the MItsuwa Marketplace (a Japanese supermarket), located in the Waikiki International Market Place. While there is food court seating inside Mitsuwa, we brought these babies back to our hotel so we could enjoy the view from our patio (and so people wouldn’t gawk at us while we greedily devoured them).

This time, we picked up the White Chocolate, Azuki (red bean), Kuro Black Sesame, and Key Lime. The not-so-subliminal message in the box must have worked on us because we came back for a second round of donuts later in the week. There’s something really satisfying about pulling apart these donuts and enjoying the textural contrast between the slight crispness of the exterior with the mochi-chewiness of each bite. The strawberry was slightly sweet and the lilikoi was slightly tart but all of the donuts were amazing. While the cookies and cream is their most popular seller, we really enjoyed the black sesame. On our first visit, we picked up the Strawberry, Lilikoi (passionfruit), Cookies and Cream, and Kuro Black Sesame. Located in the Japanese-themed Mitsuwa Marketplace on the 2nd floor of the International Marketplace, Modo Hawaii is a small donut shop tucked away in the back which serves up these delicious mochi donuts in a variety of cool flavours ranging in prices of about $2-$3 each. So when I saw that they opened up Modo Hawaii inside the International Marketplace, I knew that we would stop by here during our next visit to Waikiki. For those of you unfamiliar, mochi donuts are dangerously addictive given how easy it is to polish them off. Our first experience with mochi donuts was with a Mister Donut in Akihabara in Japan where we got to try their famous Pon De Ring.

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