looking most like the pic above, except he was older – but his chant and the cans on the pole and his straw hat are in my mind forever.   For 10 cents, you could get  any of the  most amazing goodies  ever !   Looking back,  they were more like  dim sum items.  But there was  the Baau, of course, and  wonderful  filled dumplings and rice cakes. Always difficult to choose, when I could scrounge a  dime from my Dad’s pocketfull of change.  In those days,  there was no truck  there was just the old man with the tin cans -  I guess the food went in warm,and  stayed that way with the help of the afternoon sun.  After we  licked our fiingers clean – we would go down to the end of the street – which was the end of the housing development at the time, and hope to dig up crayfish in the taro patch.  My sis and I visited Hawaii in 2008 and we went to Kaneohe to find the old house –  55 years later – there it was — looking very much the same,  except the big Australian Tree Ferns on the side of the driveway were gone, and the little road in front of our house was found by  large Green intra-state signs.  Don’t ask me the street name, but  the  area was and i presume still is  Puuhala Village !  Pau !
     

Growing up in Waipahu we had a manapua man and the dairy queens ice cream truck. We even had twin brothers named Masa n Michi who'd picked up slop (food scraps) for their pig farm. I remember putting a heavy rock on the wooden cover to keep cats from getting to it. Our neighborhood even had a house that sold soda and candy. Hmmm I now wonder if they'd pass zoning today???

Anyway, thanks for taking me back to a simpler, quieter and gentler past! The Waipahu of old!

Wes

Growing up in Waipahu we had a manapua man and the dairy queens ice cream truck. We even had twin brothers named Masa n Michi who'd picked up slop (food scraps) for their pig farm. I remember putting a heavy rock on the wooden cover to keep cats from getting to it. Our neighborhood even had a house that sold soda and candy. Hmmm I now wonder if they'd pass zoning today???

Anyway, thanks for taking me back to a simpler, quieter and gentler past! The Waipahu of old!

Wes

Growing up in Waipahu we had a manapua man and the dairy queens ice cream truck. We even had twin brothers named Masa n Michi who'd picked up slop (food scraps) for their pig farm. I remember putting a heavy rock on the wooden cover to keep cats from getting to it. Our neighborhood even had a house that sold soda and candy. Hmmm I now wonder if they'd pass zoning today???

Anyway, thanks for taking me back to a simpler, quieter and gentler past! The Waipahu of old!

Wes

Growing up in Waipahu we had a manapua man and the dairy queens ice cream truck. We even had twin brothers named Masa n Michi who'd picked up slop (food scraps) for their pig farm. I remember putting a heavy rock on the wooden cover to keep cats from getting to it. Our neighborhood even had a house that sold soda and candy. Hmmm I now wonder if they'd pass zoning today???

Anyway, thanks for taking me back to a simpler, quieter and gentler past! The Waipahu of old!

Wes

But, for that authentic taste that only comes from a cup or boat of fried noodles for the Manapua wagon, I'll have to track one down. If they're willing to give out their recipe, I'll make sure to get it to you