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A Taste of Hawaiʻi, Shipped to Your Door

The island drinks, snacks, and pantry staples our family actually restocks at home, and where to order each one.

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The question we hear most after someone gets home from the islands isn't about beaches. It's "what was that juice?" Usually it's a POG or a Hawaiian Sun Pass-O-Guava, and the good news is you don't have to wait for your next trip to have one again.

This page is the list Tori and I send friends and family when they ask. It isn't everything with "Hawaii" on the label. It's the stuff we actually keep in our own pantry and restock when we run out. Most of it ships from Amazon; the coffee comes straight from the roaster.

One honest note before you fill a cart: if you're still on the islands, grab these at any grocery store, Longs, or ABC Store — shelf prices there beat shipped-to-the-mainland prices. This list is for once you're home and the craving hits.

Island Drinks

The cooler-case classics. Every plate lunch spot in Hawaiʻi has a stack of these cans, and they taste like the trip.

Three glasses of Hawaiian tropical juice — passion-orange-guava, guava, and lilikoi — with fresh fruit

Hawaiian Sun — Pass-O-Guava

The one everybody remembers. Hawaiian Sun has been canning juice in Honolulu since 1952, and Pass-O-Guava (passion fruit, orange, guava) is the flagship. The variety packs are the smart buy: Lilikoi Passion and Guava Nectar are the other two we fight over.

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Tall glass of pink strawberry-guava juice with fresh strawberries and a halved guava

Aloha Maid Natural Juices

The other can in every island cooler, made in Hawaiʻi by ITO EN Hawaii. Passion Orange is the classic order; Strawberry Guava is the sleeper pick worth grabbing too.

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Tall glass of crystal-clear iced water beside dark porous volcanic lava rock

Waiākea Hawaiian Volcanic Water

Bottled just outside Hilo on the Big Island. Waiākea starts as rain and snowmelt on Mauna Loa, filters through porous lava rock into the Keaʻau aquifer, and comes out naturally alkaline. Yes, it's fancy water. It's also genuinely good water.

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POG — Passion Orange Guava

The juice blend that defines a Hawaiʻi breakfast. We wrote a whole love letter to POG including how to mix your own at home from passion fruit concentrate. The from-scratch version is worth the extra step.

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Snacks & Candy

The omiyage aisle: what locals bring when they visit family on the mainland, and what we stash in carry-ons.

Milk-chocolate-covered Hawaiian macadamia nuts, one broken open to show the nut inside

Hawaiian Host Chocolate Macadamias

The gift-box standard. Hawaiian Host is part of Honolulu-based Hawaiian Host Group, the largest branded macadamia company in the world. The milk-chocolate-covered macs are still the box that disappears first at our house.

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Bowl of dry-roasted salted Hawaiian macadamia nuts

Mauna Loa Macadamia Nuts

Same island family as Hawaiian Host these days, different job: straight roasted macs. Dry Roasted with Sea Salt is the everyday tin; Honey Roasted is the flavor we can't keep stocked.

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Li Hing Mui Powder

Salty-sweet-sour dried plum powder from Hawaiʻi's crack seed tradition. Locals shake it on fresh pineapple, apple slices, gummy candy, even the rim of a margarita. A little bag lasts months and converts skeptics fast.

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Hurricane Popcorn

Buttered popcorn tossed with furikake and crunchy mochi rice crackers — the movie-night snack of the islands. The microwave packs travel well, and the li hing version stacks two local obsessions into one bag.

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The Island Pantry

The staples that make island recipes taste right on a mainland stove.

Dish of dark Hawaiian shoyu with a ceramic cruet, rice grains, and nori

Aloha Shoyu

Hawaiʻi's homegrown soy sauce, made by a company founded in Kalihi in 1946 by five local families. Lighter and a touch sweeter than the big mainland brands. It's the difference-maker in teriyaki and poke marinades.

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Bowl of coarse red Hawaiian alaea sea salt with a wooden spoon

Hawaiian Sea Salt

Two kinds worth shipping. Alaea is sea salt blended with iron-rich red volcanic clay: the traditional seasoning for kalua pork, poke, and pipikaula. And on the Kona coast, Sea Salts of Hawaii solar-evaporates salt from cold seawater drawn 2,200 feet down — their salt farm runs tours if the Big Island is on your itinerary.

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Three pieces of Spam musubi on a plate, one with a bite taken to show the layers

Spam Musubi Starter Kit

Hawaiʻi's love of Spam is real, and musubi is the best delivery system ever invented for it. A musubi mold, a shaker of furikake, and a can of Spam is the whole setup — ten minutes later you're back at the beach park.

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Jars of pink guava jam and golden lilikoi preserve beside toasted bread

Guava & Lilikoi Preserves

Hawaiian Sun makes more than juice. Their guava jam and lilikoi (passion fruit) preserves put the islands on morning toast. Lilikoi butter, if you spot it, goes on everything from pancakes to cheesecake.

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Hawaiian Honey

Single-flower honeys you can't get anywhere else. ʻŌhiʻa lehua honey crystallizes naturally into a creamy white spread, kiawe is the rare buttery one, and macadamia blossom runs dark and nutty. Big Island Bees bottles all three. Want to taste at the source instead? We covered Hawaiʻi's honey and specialty farm tours too.

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Kona Coffee — Skip Amazon, Buy From the Roaster

Coffee is the one item on this page we don't send people to Amazon for. We point readers to Hawaii Coffee Company in Honolulu, the world's largest roaster of Kona coffee and the home of LION Coffee (roasting since 1864) and Royal Kona.

One label rule matters wherever you buy: "100% Kona" and "Kona blend" are very different products. A blend can be as little as 10% Kona beans. If you want what you tasted at the farm, buy the bags marked 100%. And if farm-direct is more your style, our guide to Hawaiʻi's coffee farms covers ordering straight from the source.

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Before You Order — Three Honest Notes

Mainland prices run higher than island shelf prices. Shipping cans of juice across the Pacific isn't free, and the listings reflect it. That's the trade for not flying six hours.
Check the seller and the pack size. Some Amazon listings are third-party resellers with steep markups. Compare a couple of listings before you buy; the per-can math varies a lot between 6-packs and 24-packs.
Still planning the trip? Save the cart and buy it there — then use our souvenirs guide for what's worth carrying home in your luggage.

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Hawaiʻi Weather Forecast

Today’s Weather Brief · Audio · ~45s

Updated 2026-07-24T20:04:05.551Z

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Trade winds are strong right now, with high surf hitting the south shore today. Windward areas are seeing frequent showers through the weekend.

South-facing beaches have dangerous surf today through Sunday—stay out of the water unless you're an experienced swimmer. East-facing shores will build rough water by Sunday or Monday. The bigger picture is a tropical system, Fausto, heading our way. It's weakening but should arrive near the islands by Tuesday or Wednesday as a tropical storm or weaker system, bringing strong winds, rough seas, and heavy rain. The exact track is still uncertain, so check the forecast daily.

Get your beach time and water activities in today through early next week on the leeward side, where conditions stay calmer. Be ready to shift plans by midweek when conditions turn rough.

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Windy conditions across Maui right now, with trade winds gusting strong. South-facing shores have high surf today and will see another big swell Saturday and Sunday—the water's dangerous unless you're an experienced ocean swimmer.

Through the weekend, windward areas will get frequent showers while trade winds stay gusty. The bigger picture arrives midweek: Hurricane Fausto is weakening as it moves toward the islands and should reach Maui as a tropical storm or weaker system Tuesday or Wednesday. That'll bring rough seas, strong winds, and heavy rain. Track and timing are still uncertain, so check updates daily.

Hit the leeward beaches and snorkel south Maui coasts today through early next week, but stay out of windward and south-facing waters through Sunday.

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Windy conditions dominate right now with strong trade winds pushing across the island. South-facing shores have high surf today—dangerous water if you're not an experienced swimmer.

Through the weekend, those south shores see another big swell Saturday and Sunday, and east-facing shores will build dangerous conditions by Sunday or Monday. Windward areas get frequent showers. A tropical system—the remnants of Hurricane Fausto—is weakening and headed toward the islands as a tropical storm or weaker system by Tuesday or Wednesday, bringing rough seas, strong winds, and heavy rain midweek. Timing and track are still uncertain, so check updates daily.

Leeward beaches on the Kona side stay your best bet today through early next week, but avoid the water on the windward and south shores through Sunday.

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Strong trade winds are pushing showers across windward areas through the weekend. On Kauaʻi, expect frequent showers on the windward side.

High surf is running on south-facing shores today and will build again Saturday and Sunday—stay out of the water unless you're an experienced swimmer. East-facing shores will also see dangerous swell by Sunday or Monday. Hurricane Fausto is weakening as it moves toward Hawaii. By Tuesday or Wednesday it should reach the islands as a tropical storm or weaker system, bringing rough seas, strong winds, and heavy rain. Track and timing are still uncertain, so check updates daily through midweek.

Beach time on leeward shores works through early next week. Plan water activities for today, but be ready to shift if Fausto's track becomes clearer—conditions will deteriorate by midweek.

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A Taste of Hawaiʻi, Shipped to Your Door

Island Drinks

Hawaiian Sun — Pass-O-Guava

Aloha Maid Natural Juices

Waiākea Hawaiian Volcanic Water

POG — Passion Orange Guava

Snacks & Candy

Hawaiian Host Chocolate Macadamias

Mauna Loa Macadamia Nuts

Li Hing Mui Powder

Hurricane Popcorn

The Island Pantry

Aloha Shoyu

Hawaiian Sea Salt

Spam Musubi Starter Kit

Guava & Lilikoi Preserves

Hawaiian Honey

Kona Coffee — Skip Amazon, Buy From the Roaster

Before You Order — Three Honest Notes

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