10 Restaurants Are Creating 26 New Dishes for Honolulu’s July 10 Natto Day Takeout Dine-Around
We’re celebrating 10 years of Natto Day feasts in Hawai‘i with all kinds of savory, sweet, slime-licious creations.
June 29, 2021
Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your taste buds, Natto Day happens only once a year, making July 10 supremely special for lovers of the stinky bean. This year, pandemic be damned, we’re celebrating on the grandest scale yet: Ten eateries around Honolulu are creating 26 all-new takeout natto dishes to mark 10 years of annual Natto Day feasts in Hawai‘i.
The 10 restaurants include Kapa Hale in Kāhala, winner of Frolic’s Readers’ Choice poll for a spot in the illustrious lineup. Also new this year are Mama Kim’s on King Street, Dell’s Kitchen & Bakery and Mio Pastalogy in McCully. A surprise eleventh entrant is the nonprofit MOA Hawai‘i, whose natural foods program manager, Aisha Asami, reached out just as planning for the