Haupia appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Haupia · Honolulu
Coconut milk thickened with starch to a firm pudding that cuts into squares. White, glossy, lightly sweet. The canonical Hawaiian dessert and the haupia in Ted's Bakery chocolate haupia cream pie.
Haupia is pre-contact Hawaiian. Original versions used arrowroot (pia) as the starch; modern recipes use cornstarch. The dish was historically a luau closer, served in 5cm squares cut from a pan and chilled. Ted's Bakery on Oahu's North Shore turned haupia into a national breakthrough with the chocolate haupia cream pie, sold by the slice or whole since the early 1990s. Lonohana Estate Chocolate now layers Honolulu-grown dark chocolate over haupia in tasting flights.
Where to eat in Honolulu:
- Ted's Bakery North Shore Plate Counter
- Liliha Bakery