There's a small but charming Saturday farmers» market selling everything from papayas to «plate lunch» (the classic
Hawaiian lunch staple, usually consisting of a smoky barbecued meat with generous portions of white rice and macaroni salad); a soap factory that uses indigenous ingredients like kukui and macadamia nuts; and Waialua Coffee & Chocolate, which serves up some of the island's best of both.
No one really knows why macaroni salad became a
staple of the
Hawaiian plate
lunch and luaus; some say it came from the plantation workers, while others give credit to the Portuguese fishermen who worked the whaling boats from the Islands.