Hawaii Magazine
Mochi Do Hawaiʻi opened in January and demand is only growing.
Jan 14, 2021
If you haven’t heard of mochi doughnuts, maybe you haven’t been to a bakery or farmers market lately.
These chewy versions of the fried dough confection, made with sweet rice flour (mochiko), is popping up everywhere, from Seattle to Houston to Canada.
In Hawaiʻi, several bakeries have been churning out mochi-based doughnuts, from Liliha Bakery to Brug Bakery, both on Oʻahu. In fact, MoDo Hawaiʻi opened a second location in Palo Alto, California in December 2020. (Side note: In 2018, Mitsukawa Marketplace in San Jose started selling MoDo’s mochi doughnuts and people waited in long lines for them.)