"Pass the Cup Noodles and cans of Vienna sausage and head straight to the bakery case at Komoda, a grocery store and bakeshop that’s been around for more than a century in upcountry Maui, and about as ramshackle as you might expect of anything that age. That case offers classic donuts and long johns, but you’re here for the stick donuts (five glazed mini fried dough balls stacked on a skewer—a.k.a. the most fun way to eat donuts) and their guava malasadas. We’re not usually a fan of filled malasadas since they’re often stuffed with artificially flavored goop, but at Komoda, it’s a tart-sweet guava jam that actually tastes like fruit. It’s so good that you’ll finish it and immediately go straight back in the perpetual yet efficient line for another." - Martha Cheng
