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Feb 26, 2007 - 6:48:22 AM |
Ku'uipo Paulo posted a comment on this site to indicate that Haleiwa Poi now produces a poi "powder" which she says reconstitutes well. She describes the powder as very fine, which leads me to think that it's freeze-dried poi rather than dehydrated poi. If freeze-dried, it will make a superior product when reconstituted with water.
Ku'uipo kindly provided these photographs of a bag. She writes, "The instructions are 3 oz. of powder to 1 1/3 cup of water. Heat in the microwave and it's done. I usually cover the poi with water and put it in the refrigerator until I'm ready to eat it. I pour out almost all of the water, leaving a little to stir in. Not too much or the poi will be watery. There is no other mixing involved. It reconstitutes ready to eat."
Ku'uipo kindly provided these photographs.
The one pound bag of Haleiwa poi "powder" cost $16.00 plus tax in Honolulu. Their address is P.O. Box 2157, Aiea, Hawaii 96701.
I can't find anyone on the internet who ships the Haleiwa Poi powder to the mainland, or internationally. If anyone is aware of someone who can ship this product, can they please post a comment here for the benefit of others?
Mahalo.
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Comments
Jim (kimo) Sevcik
13 Nov 2007, 11:19
Will see what I can arrange with this powdered poi. Let you know the
results.
Dave W
13 Nov 2007, 15:08
http://www.haleiwapoi.com/productsservices/
Craig Walsh
15 Nov 2007, 18:47
Nice graphics on their website, but is it just me or were the photographs
very, very dark? And there didn't seem to be a way to place an online
order.
kathleen Oconnor
01 Jan 2008, 10:09
how/where can i get some powdered poi,,i have had it in the past, and now
cannot find any,, i will be in hawaii in a couple of weeks,,can you
help?,,thank you and happy new year to you and yours,,,,,,kathleen
Craig Walsh
01 Jan 2008, 10:35
See the comments on this article:
http://www.poico.com/artman/publish/article_20.php
There's information there on how to order dehydrated poi. Alas, it doesn't
hold a candle to the freeze-dried poi that we made. . . .
Carolyn Barnett
01 Jan 2008, 18:49
I would like to order a pound of freeze-dried poi. Please inform me of the
best method
Craig Walsh
06 Jan 2008, 14:05
We haven't made freeze-dried poi since late 2001 or early 2002. I still
have a few cans in our cupboard, more or less collectors' items.
Please see the comments at the end of this article for information on how
to order dehydrated (but not freeze-dried) poi:
http://www.poico.com/artman/publish/article_20.php
The words "freeze dried" and "dehydrated" are often thought to mean the
same thing. They don't. "Freeze dried" is, in my opinion, tremendously
superior to "dehydrated." But there were no freeze drying facilities in
Hawaii in 2001. Don't know if there are now. So to have our poi freeze
dried, we had to ship fresh poi by air (in a shipping container) to
Portland, and then have it delivered by refrigerated truck to Oregon Freeze
Dry. Our product was the real Rolls Royce --- but it was also expensive.
Ron Myers
10 Feb 2008, 20:46
I am very interested in purchasing the Poi powder. If anyone has any leads
the info would be greatly appreciated. Suppose I could wait until my next
visit to Kauai, but perhaps a small flavor of the islands would be nice in
this cold climate of the northeast
Ron
mercedes napua marshall
11 Feb 2008, 07:45
aloha from Farmington hills, Michigan. I was born and raised on Maui but,
live in Michigan now for the past 23 years. We got no POI here, ofcourse.
Anyway, please send a list of my options on how to order the powdered poi
and does it taste like the real thing? Mahalo for having this website. My
mailing address is: 23011 Albion, farmington hills, MI. 48336 or use my
email.
Craig Walsh
11 Feb 2008, 11:09
Aloha, Mercedes --- No, dehydrated poi (and most powdered poi is
dehydrated) does not taste like the real thing. Freeze-dried poi does, but
when we last freeze-dried poi there were no facilities that could do this
in Hawaii, so we had to send fresh poi to Oregon Freeze Dry by air cargo.
We have nothing to mail to you --- this site is purely informational. But
there is more information on buying poi at:
http://www.poico.com/artman/publish/article_20.php
Hope your search is successful!
Mahalo,
Craig
Rhoda Kaluai
16 Mar 2008, 15:31
Can I drivew to Aiea to buy the powdered poi?
Mahalo,
Rhoda
Craig Walsh
05 Apr 2008, 04:36
I just checked out the Haleiwa Poi website again (see Dave's posting of 13
November 2007, above). It seems that the Haleiwa site is gone, replaced by
one of those generic websites that just contains a bunch of Google links.
I don't know if this means that Haleiwa Poi is gone as well, or just their
website. Anybody in Hawaii know?
Poi Gal No More
28 Apr 2008, 23:50
I was apparently one of the last people on earth to get poi delivery. I
miss it. I do not understand what the problem is. Is it lack of poi? Is it
bad poi? Is it regulatory snafus? Is it that no one in H wants us to be
happy? And this may be a stupid question but, why can't we grow our own
poi? Poi poi me.....
diana
16 May 2008, 00:50
Just got back from my first Hawaiian vacation, and have been looking for
poi online. (Yes, I actually did like it quite a bit.) I haven't ordered it
yet, but it seems that http://shop.hawaiianfoodonline.com has frozen
Haleiwa Poi available for purchase. I'll repost if I have any problems
ordering, but assume that no news is good news. :-)
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