Today we are at the iconic Haleiwa surf town here on the north shore but we're
not here to catch waves we're here to catch good eats so let's
go what is going on youtube greetings from iconic Haleiwa surf town this is probably
the most famous spot on north shore along with waimea bay and pipeline but it's the actual surf
town that you see in all the movies in the winter there'd be hundreds if not thousands
of surfers out here because the waves would be pretty big but in the summer the waves go away
and it's kind of a calm beach i've actually seen turtles at this beach more than any other beach on
the island so if you pay attention you might see a turtle come in here i think they lay their eggs
here or something like that so they're often found on this beach which is really cool and when it's
not surf time this place is barely used but that's not why we're here we rented a moped today to come
out to the north shore it's about an hour and a half drive from waikiki but it's a cool way to
transit around the north shore once you get here so it's worth the long drive on the moped this
town is also iconic for having some really good food and there are two places in particular that
i used to go to when i was younger so i definitely want to take you to these two iconic spots and you
know i want to share them with you so let's go hop on the moped and check out those two spots
okay so our first stop here is a hawaii landmark it's giovanni's shrimp truck and i know some
of you are going to be like man that's so cliche going to hawaii going to giovanni's
but you know i lived here in the 90s and this little area that i'm in now used to be like a
field when you're coming back from the north shore you stopped at giovanni's this was like
cheap hawaiian eats so that's what we're gonna do but the line is
insane
salad and a passion orange
so yeah you can choose to sit up there with the with the mad rush of people in the crowd
or you can come down here to this beautiful little river
this is another thing i love in hawaii these passion orange hawaiian sun drinks
that's so yummy i always get mac salad i mentioned this in other videos i'm not sure what
hawaiian cuisine does to mac salad but it is so good and it's a part of anything i
order when i'm here in hawaii so we'll eat that mac salad in a second let's unwrap this
big plate of deliciousness
it still looks yummy so here is the scampi
which looks amazing i'm just gonna tear into this so i hope you don't mind i usually just dump
the mac salad i should have got one rice one mac salad i didn't realize the mac salad was separate
um but it looks just like it did back in the day it's even the same type of little paper plates
oh man that's what i remember i forgot to do something now you gotta take your lemon
squeeze it out the lemon's warm they cook it with the lemon i usually don't peel the shrimp
i know that's going to be gross to some of you but this is me eating not you so i just go ahead and
chomp down on it
it's too much work to peel it
so yeah this is so yummy hmm
max solid is to die for so yeah it's touristy and yeah this plate is going to cost you 20 bucks but
it's it's reputation grew like i mentioned for a reason so you have to do it i think if i remember
correctly when i used to come down here maybe my friend alex because we used to come here together
and my friend chris maybe they'll chime in here but i think this was six dollars back in the day
oh it's so good so good all right let me finish this up and then i got a special treat for you
we're gonna head over to my favorite dessert spot on the entire island it's here in haleiwa town
so let me let me let me scarf all this down and we'll get over there
all right we're at another spot that is definitely touristy we're gonna have to jump in another
line and to be honest with you even back in 1994 people knew about this place it was super popular
but again popular for a reason so where are we at matsumoto ice
i actually don't think this is the same building or if it is it's been reconfigured
i think you used to enter it was like an old green building used to enter into the front over there
so i think they've updated this a little
bit
okay so this has definitely changed a lot since i lived here back in the 90s this is like a
new kind of like a whole new store actually compared to what it used to be is it new it's
definitely different right oh yeah they remodeled it totally changed it do you know when it changed
how many 2010 2010 okay all right i forgot to record while i was ordering so i ordered
i always get lychee that's my favorite lychee coconut and banana and i always add cadence milk
look at that so you're going to see a lot of icy places here in haleiwa and actually
all over hawaii and they're never going to have a line and you're going to be tempted to go to them
instead of matimoto ice don't do that wait in line go to matsumoto so as i mentioned i always
get lychee coconut banana which is a play on the hawaiian version of this which which is pineapple
coconut banana what makes matsumoto so good in my opinion is number one the condensed milk on top
that used to be something they automatically did now you have to request it it's an extra
50 cents but this whole bowl of goodness was only four dollars so it's still relatively inexpensive
another thing that makes this special is inside of this huge snowball is vanilla ice cream
so and that's what this little straw is for oh you get that vanilla bean flavor with the lychee
and the coconut and the uh you know the other flavors it's so good
they use like this green machine that takes the ice and makes it the consistency of snow
and that's the difference between them and other people a lot of other places are like crushed ice
theirs is like making snow ice cream if you ever did that as a kid
but like next level snow ice cream it was so yummy one of the best parts is this freaking
straw because it gives you access to the vanilla ice cream which is melting because it's hawaii
so you get all those flavors with that vanilla bean ice cream
all right so thanks for joining me on this trip to haleiwa town
and thank you for letting me share my favorite spots to eat over here
both lunch and dessert if you ever stop by and try these places let me know what you think of them
look at that we got a sea turtle let me tell you
right there we've got a sea turtle
almost right on cue we've got two sea
turtles
so
there's two of them over here right
there another one up there there's a big one
yeah we're gonna get wet
that's pretty amazing there's almost three sea turtle or there's actually three sea
turtles out there almost right on cue if you want to see a sea turtle come over to
haleiwa town beach park and you'll most likely you'll get to see sea turtle