A huge chunk of tuna, about to become sashimi. It sits on a wooden cutting board with lemons and cabbage in back. I'm assuming the bowl in back is sliced yapon root, soaking before being cooked.
Greg is like most local Hawaiians, generous and community-minded. He has a special kupuna price for older folks, quietly gives fish to those he knows need it, and charges everyone a price that can't be beat for amazing fresh fish.
The small farmers market is great! Little local farms bring their various foods, chocolates, baked goods. Artists and artisans bring t-shirts and soaps and other fun things. In the summer the market partners with the Levitt AMP Foundation for the Hāna Mele Series to have Maui music on first Fridays.
The community is small and takes care of each other. Most days (more when a cruise ship is docked on the other side), tourists arrive about 10am and largely leave by about 5pm. The evenings and mornings are slow and quiet, and so small town. I love the kindness of the locals who make room for us to feel somewhat local ourselves every year for a few months.
Lots of good things to do in a day's visit down the Road to Hāna from the other side. Come along, have some good food truck food, check out Wānanalua Congregational Church in the middle of town and give to their restoration (founded 1838), go to the Lava Tube and Kahanu Garden, go to the Kipahulu district of Haleakalā National Park, go to any of several great beaches or the Waiʻānapanapa State Park...
But mostly be thoughtful and respectful of this little town that hosts you.
Can't wait to be in Hāna where #FishOnFriday is an IRL event. Greg leaves Hāna Bay Wednesday (I often see him & his boat on my sunrise walk) and sells the fish at the farmers market on Friday.
We eat fish & hyper-local/Maui-local produce every day there. Come visit!
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