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Daily Smile: Monday, June 1, 2026

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Michael Brestovansky

Government & Politics

The Kaua‘i County Council rejected a proposal to acquire land over concerns pesticide contamination.

The council on Wednesday discussed a $138 million 

 including allocations for projects ranging from bridge replacements to playground improvements.

Included among those projects was a proposal to purchase a 

 for about $5 million, where the county would build a vehicle repair shop and storage space for the county’s Transportation Agency.

But Council Chair Mel Rapozo put the brakes on that proposal on Wednesday, saying that the site’s previous life as a manufacturing site for industrial chemicals — county records 

 the site was previously owned by the Brewer Chemical Corp. — has made the area potentially hazardous.

“I’m a little concerned about purchasing the land without knowing up-front what the environmental issues are,” Rapozo said. “Who knows what is sitting in that?”

 by the state Department of Health’s Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response Office, which found that a portion of the site to be purchased is considered to be at a medium risk for dioxin contaminants. Dioxins are toxic chemical compounds that are often byproducts of industrial manufacturing processes — including herbicides — that can pollute groundwater and surrounding soils.

One person who testified about the matter, Lonnie Sykos, claimed that Brewer Chemical sold herbicides in the 1970s that were chemically similar to Agent Orange, the herbicide infamous for its use in the Vietnam War — and the long-term health impacts for people exposed to it.

County Managing Director Reiko Matsuyama told the council that an environmental assessment of the site has not been conducted because the property owner — listed in county tax records as Kaua‘i Veterans Express Co. — had not committed to selling to the county until recently.

However, Matsuyama said that the county has reviewed previous environmental reviews of the site and said that none of them picked up anything “above industrial-level contamination.”

But Rapozo said that his own due diligence at the site suggests that the structures at the location contain asbestos, which means that they will be unusable without either an expensive asbestos remediation process or a total teardown and replacement of the structures, either one of which will inflate the cost of the project well above the $5 million initially planned.

Rapozo and other council members seemed blindsided by the entire proposal, saying that they hadn’t been informed of the county’s intent to purchase the land until around April.

“We’re being asked with a very short window to commit to spending the money to purchase the land,” Rapozo said. “Future councils down the road can say no to funding any future developments, but guess what? We’re stuck the land and the cleanup and the monitoring forever.”

Ultimately, the council voted to remove the land purchase from the capital improvement budget bill until the site can be thoroughly evaluated.

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A $5 million land purchase for a county auto repair shop drew questions about long-term environmental impacts.

Kaua‘i Council halts land purchase over chemical contamination concerns

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Stephanie Salmons

Business & Tourism

 is one of 20 in the U.S. nominated for the list of Best Cat Cafés in the 

The awards aim to rank the 10 best in several areas of travel and lifestyle, and the 20 nominees were chosen with the help of a panel of experts.

"Over the past 20 years, cat cafés have made their way from Taiwan to Japan to the United States," 10Best writes. "Here, they've become increasingly popular destinations for everyone from existing cat lovers to those simply looking to shake up their work environment. Not only do they serve delicious menu items like espresso drinks, loaded grilled cheese sandwiches and gyoza, these special cafés have resulted in countless adoptions and donations to local shelters."

Cat Café Maui, which offers cat adoptions and transport via the Fly Hawaiʻi project by Maui Cat Rescue, is located at Queen Ka‘ahumanu Center in Kahului

 once a day until 6 a.m. Monday, June 22. Winners will be announced July 1.

Several other Hawai‘i businesses are up for spots on various other 10Best lists, voting for which is underway:

And if you're looking to learn about surfing, several Hawai‘i organizations were recently named to the 10Best list of 

. Maui Surfer Girls took the top spot on the list, while Big Wave Dave Surf & Coffee comes in at No. 6 and Maui Surf Lessons is No. 9.

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Several other Hawai‘i businesses are also up for spots on various other 10Best lists.

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Ala Moana Center nominated for 10Best list

Food & Dining

The awards rank the 10 best in several travel and lifestyle categories, including Best Cookie Shop.

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The Maui Cookie Lady among Hawai‘i businesses nominated for USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice Awards

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Cat Café Maui nominated for 10Best list

Crime & Courts

 the City and County of Honolulu after she was fined nearly $600,000 over an improper apartment listing.

In 2019, Sandra May needed a tenant. She had owned a home on Wilhelmina Rise since the 1970s, with a lower unit in the home available for rent by long-term tenants. But after her husband died in 2019, May, living on a fixed Social Security income, needed to make ends meet, but couldn’t find another tenant.

To broaden her search, May listed the unit on several online rental platforms. But May — who her attorney Loren Seehase said “struggles to utilize any kind of technology” — had inadvertently listed the unit as available for less than 30 days.

That same year, the City and County adopted an 

 hiking up fines against property owners illegally hosting short-term rentals. Violators could be fined up to $10,000 for each day a violation persists.

In November 2019, May received a notice of a violation from the city regarding an online property listing. She promptly corrected the listing to show that the unit was only available for periods of 30 days or more, and believed the matter to be done.

Two years later, after the lifting of the Covid-era moratorium on evicting tenants for non-payment of rent, May again was in need of new tenants. Once again she listed the unit online, once again (in 2023) she received a notice of violation from the city, once again she corrected the listing, once again she thought the matter over.

In April 2024, it happened again. Only this time, because this was a recurring violation, the city informed May that she would incur daily $10,000 fines until the listings were corrected.

Unfortunately, May spent much of late March and April in and out of the hospital following a car crash and other medical procedures. By the time she learned of the violation and was able to correct it, 59 days had elapsed — and now she owed the city $590,000.

On the same day, the city also placed a $10,000 lien on May’s property stemming from the second violation.

“She’s like, ‘you know you’re going to put an old lady out on the street,’” Seehase told Aloha State Daily. “‘I can’t pay this, you’d have to take my home.’ And the city responded by saying ‘Well, I guess you’d better get an attorney.’ So, it was a very callous response. Poor Sandra was in tears about it, and there was no conversation, there was no negotiating, there was no listening to reason.”

May sought out attorneys, who referred her to the Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm that focuses on property rights cases. Even better for May, the PLF works pro bono, Seehase said.

Seehase said the letter informing May of how much she owed the city did not mention any way to challenge the fines. Without a mechanism within ordinances to challenge the situation, Seehase said the only option is to challenge it on constitutional grounds, in federal court.

In particular, Seehase said the case could be argued to be in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. That amendment most famously concerns “cruel and unusual punishment,” but also protects against excessive fines.

Seehase said other Eighth Amendment cases have attempted to determine whether particular fines are so ruinous they will destroy a person’s livelihood, weighed in proportion to the actual crime itself.

In this particular case, Seehase said, May’s mistake brought no harm to anybody other than herself.

“This is not the type of situation where we’ve got like a building code violation and lives are imminently in danger,” Seehase said. “This is an advertisement, so there was no harm done to anyone.”

On the other side of the coin, Seehase said the $10,000-per-day fines are the absolute maximum allowed by city ordinance, and that the city could have chosen to reduce those fines at their discretion. Because the city hit May with the $590,000 fines and the $10,000 lien on the same day, Seehase said that “it really kind of appeared that the city went on a vendetta … against poor Sandra.”

Seehase emphasized that, regardless of how the listings may have appeared online, May did not ever offer the property for periods of less than 30 days. If a person attempted to book the property for less than 30 days, May would cancel the booking.

May is seeking relief through the federal court, not monetary damages, Seehase said. Should they win, the court will determine an appropriate remedy, potentially including a partial or total reduction of the fines.

Seehase said the City and County has 21 days to respond once they have been served.

A spokesman for the Department of Planning and Permitting told ASD the department cannot comment on pending litigation.

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Sandra May was told she owed the city hundreds of thousands of dollars over an improper online rental listing.

Octogenarian sues Honolulu over $600,000 fines

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Katie Helland

Arts & Entertainment

“Paper Bag Plan,” an independent film

, who grew up on O’ahu, just started streaming internationally 

on iTunes, Prime Video, YouTube and Google Play.

 shares the story of Oscar, a father diagnosed with cancer, who seeks independence for his wheelchair-bound son, Billy.

The film’s executive producer grew up in Kaʻaʻawa and graduated from Kamehameha Schools and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa before moving to the Mainland and working her way up to 

co-executive producer of “America’s Got Talent.”

“We are streaming around the world,” she told Aloha State Daily. “We're everywhere where iTunes is [and] Amazon, YouTube and Google Play, for now.”

The film will also be appearing on Xumo in the near future, after a deal was finalized today, she told ASD.  

“Paper Bag Plan” was written and directed by her husband, Anthony Lucero, who was inspired to share this story after watching his mother and sister raise disabled children. 

Viewers are already writing in to share their reaction to the film.

“People just message us on our site, and we've got some really great emails coming in from parents and families — and people around the world,” she said. “They’re saying thank you for making this movie. We just had someone write last night saying ‘You made a movie about my family'.“

The film has already gotten some attention on social media. That includes a repost on Instagram from Jennifer Aniston, who has 44.5 million followers.

“It just feels good that finally, this little movie that we made — a few years ago — now everyone can see it,” Lucero said.

It has won awards at 17 film festivals, Lucero added. Having it screen in front of live audiences in different cities helped Lucero and her husband get a better idea of how people would respond to scenes. In fact, the duo made some edits based on audience reactions before creating the final version, which is now streaming on international platforms.

Analytics for how many people have watched so far weren’t immediately available, she said.

“We kept our pricing for the rental low,” she said. “And we did that because we wanted the families that we care about that — that we made this movie for — we wanted them to be able to watch it and not be like, ‘Oh my gosh, it's so expensive.’ So that's why we did that.”

For platforms like Amazon, the split is 50-50 between the streaming platform and the filmmakers, she said. The filmmakers then pay fees to the distributors and actors, she said.

 (starts at $2.99 for standard definition) and 

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This independent film from Keʻalohi Lee Lucero, an executive producer who grew up in Kaʻaʻawa, written and directed by her husband, Anthony Lucero, is now streaming on four major platforms. Find out where you can watch the film and what viewers are saying.

'Paper Bag Plan' streams internationally

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A. Kam Napier

Columnists

The state Legislature’s attempt to overturn Citizens United, as it applies to Hawai‘i, keeps advancing. The latest step will be a hearing Wednesday, April 29, at 2:40 p.m., deferred from Monday and again from Tuesday as lawmakers tweak the wording of 

, “Relating to the powers of artificial persons.”

, the bill is an attempt to create a backdoor to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which held that it is unconstitutional to prohibit political spending by corporations. Doing so violates their First Amendment right to free speech.

That backdoor is being built on the fact that the states grant corporations the powers they have under law, so Hawai‘i, and about a dozen other states this year introduced nearly identical legislation — total coincidence, I’m sure! — to change those laws. Hawai‘i law, for example currently 

“[E]very corporation has … the same powers as an individual to do all things necessary or convenient to carry out its business and affairs…”

It then goes on to specify such powers as “to sue and be sued,” to own land, make contracts, lend money, “make donations for the public welfare or for charitable, scientific, or educational purposes,” and more.

SB 2471 would add language stating that corporations can keep on acting in every way like an individual with one new exception — no spending on political speech. From the bill’s latest version:

“[A]rtificial persons created under state law possess only those powers that are necessary or convenient to carry out lawful business and organizational purposes, and that those powers do not include the power to spend money or contribute anything of value to influence elections or ballot measures.”

[{"type":"text","text":"Why? Why is this even necessary?"}]

Well, for all the furor over this bill, the bill itself doesn’t really say.

Its defenders do say why they think it’s necessary in testimony and editorials, but their arguments are heavy on vague threats, light on evidence.

“Dark money is poisoning our democracy,” wrote state Rep. Della Au Belatti (D), District 26, and state Rep. Kanani Souza (R), District 43, 

The two make much of the fact that one of them is a Democrat, the other a Republican. They go on about the genius of this “genuinely historic” approach to “stop giving the corporations that operate on our Islands the power to spend in our politics.”

Please do read the whole thing and look not only at what they say, but what they don’t say.

They don’t name a single example of a specific corporation whose spending affected any election or ballot measure in Hawai‘i. Not one.

Perhaps in the House? Belatti spoke about the bill in an April 14 floor session (

, at 4:41:00). We’ve always had this power to redefine corporations, she said, and we must do so to “rein in undue influence of monies flowing from unlimited corporate treasuries that undermine our political process and has fueled voters’ distrust and disenchantment with government.”

She says that in Hawai‘i’s 2024 election, three PACs spent $13 million, whereas the candidates themselves spent only $10 million they raised directly from donors.

That $13 million, she said, “is the dark money that SB 2417 is striking at.”

But which PACs spent the money? On which candidates or issues? What did their spending achieve and how was Hawai‘i harmed? 

She didn't say. She won’t name the threat but does emphasize the “we’ve always had this power” argument, urging, “We need to be brave and take up this mantle and let this legislation move forward.”

OK. Citizens United was decided in 2010. Did Hawai‘i lawmakers have amnesia about their powers for the past 16 years? Or is it more accurate to say they’ve spent 16 years with their lawyers digging through the lawbooks looking for some way to try to outsmart the Supreme Court? Something tells me, if this was the obvious slam-dunk they’re making it out to be, state legislatures would’ve done this long ago, and Hawai‘i's current legislators wouldn't still be fussing with the draft. 

Since lawmakers won’t identify a single clear instance of “dark money” yielding a specific bad result for Hawai‘i, we have to guess at their target. Who is this bill trying to silence that the U.S. Supreme Court otherwise gave a voice to?

A little history lesson, because you might not remember who Citizens United was or what it wanted to do.

, a conservative 501(C)4 public policy nonprofit, founded in 1988. In 2007, the group wanted to take out advertisements telling people to watch a documentary it made, “

,” critical of Clinton as a presidential candidate. It challenged Federal Election Commission rules that would’ve prevented it from doing so.

The U.S. Supreme Court said it could go forward and Democrats, in particular, have hated this decision ever since.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision led to the creation of political action committees, PACs and Super PACs, which can spend money they raise on candidates and issues. These entities are not bound by the campaign donation limits set when one gives directly to a specific candidate. If you want to read a better criticism of “dark money” then than the one being made locally, check out 

this piece on Citizens United from the Brennan Center for Justice

There’s a lot going on here, a lot of complicated motivations and I don’t trust the people who won’t tell us who took the $35,000, and who won’t let us have real elections, when they say we need to take on the U.S. Supreme Court to protect democracy.

Maybe they don’t like seeing all that money spent independently, rather than getting donated to them.

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Maybe they’re sacrificing the “dark money” they’ve benefitted from — there are plenty of progressive Super PACs that support Democrats, after all — because they are certain they have other kinds of corporations on their side.

Namely, the media. Search SB 2471 for “news” and it shows up 20 times. Example: “‘Election activity’ does not include any bona fide news story, commentary, or editorial distributed through the facilities of a broadcasting station or of any print, online, or digital newspaper, magazine, blog, or other periodical publication, unless the broadcasting, print, online, or digital facility is owned or controlled by a candidate, political committee, or political party.”

No one has said so, to my knowledge, but this may be the biggest vulnerability of SB 2471.

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

States, in turn, are bound by this as well. They also shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.

Remember, Citizens United made a documentary. From its preview, it’s a mix of clips from Clinton’s own speeches (reporting), close-ups of news headlines critical of Clinton (second-hand reporting) and commentary from political observers, including one Barack Obama.

In other words, it’s a “60 Minutes” segment, only one “60 Minutes” would never do.

If SB 2471 becomes law, I’d expect a PAC to take Hawai‘i to court demanding a clear explanation of why its reporting and editorializing in a documentary, an advertisement or a direct mail piece is any different than what I do here at Aloha State Daily in my column, or what Civil Beat does when it hosts an essay from the defenders of SB 2471, or what the Star-Advertiser does when it endorses candidates.

, for example, endorsed Kamala Harris for president, among other candidates in other races, and told voters how they ought to vote on State Constitution and City Charter amendments.

In the latest version of the bill, our lawmakers are arguing that this is OK, but identical speech from other groups structured as corporations is not.

Then there’s the convoluted language of “artificial persons,” and, again, I think our lawmakers are being too cute for their own good. They are arguing in the bill and in their testimony that they are not silencing the natural rights of individuals to speak, only that of “artificial persons.”

But they know perfectly well that corporate structures don’t just spring from the ground of their own accord, staffed by no one. They’re made of people, who have rights. Do those rights vanish because those people found it beneficial to incorporate? If so, then, again, one would have to wonder why a newspaper that makes endorsements, or a cable news network that blasts President Donald Trump all day, can benefit from being a corporation, but other people with a political message can’t.

Hawai‘i might expensively push this all the way back to the U.S. Supreme Court only to find that the definition of “the press” gets put on trial, in which case, I’d say, journalism as we know it has no special privilege. Freedom of the press is the freedom to publish, no more, no less. 

Well, look, I’m not an attorney. On SB 2471, all I know is, my alarm bells are going off.

When lawmakers tell me we need to act now in the face of a dire threat, but the threat is unnamed, the harm ill-defined, I get suspicious.

When lawmakers say somebody needs to shut up, but they won't say who or why, I wonder what sneaky stuff they're up to.

And when lawmakers tell us we need to be brave and charge ahead, regardless of obvious risks, I have to point out: It’s easy to be brave with other people’s money, isn’t it?

Remember, this is a Legislature insisting that Hawai‘i is so broke, it can’t afford to let taxpayers keep the tax cuts we were promised. 

But to get cute with the U.S. Supreme Court? Suddenly, money is no object!

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 again rolled a vote over to Thursday, video at the link, go to 2:40 p.m. to see the brief exchange. Both chambers still have legal review underway and it was noted that the House Finance Committee needs to sign off as well.

Pay particular attention to Rep. Scot Matayoshi's passing reference. "Our biggest fear is we don't want to make this situation worse," he said. "We don't want to pas a bill that puts us in a and especially Hawaii companies in a potentially worse position, uh, not companies but non-profits and [garbled] committees in a worse position than when we started."

Matayoshi has mentioned this before in hearings on the bill, his desire to carve out exceptions of some kind for nonprofit organizations and unions. We'll see what, if anything, gets added to the bill as a result. But every exception they add is another opportunity for someone to say, in a court, "Why does that group get to speak, but ours can't?"

The Senate and House Conference deferred again, to Friday. Skip to 1:26:00

 of the discussion between conference committee chairs Matayoshi, on behalf of the House, and State Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole, to hear them both boast and hedge on what they're doing behind the scenes. 

Hedge No. 1 is to get rid of reset language in the bill. As written, it strips all Hawai‘i corporations of their charters entirely, then reinstitutes them, minus the freedom to spend on political speech. Instead, says Keohokalole, they want to give the state Attorney General and/or the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs authority to dissolve a corporation that engages in electioneering.

Good luck with that. The AG's office has already opposed this bill as a reckless challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court, so I'd be shocked if it wants the job of corporation executioner. 

Then this bombshell from him, "We are trying to provide clarity for labor organizations because there are a number of structures that labor organizations take in Hawai‘i, and there's some ambiguity around that that we want to make clear for everyone." He's also looking at language about how Mainland-based outfits operate in Hawai‘i.

It might interest you to know that according to Federal Elections Commission data, some 

include the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Political Action Fund, Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and Mainland-based leftwing PAC ActBlue.

I guess there's some "dark money" Keohokalole likes after all. More and more this is looking like a bill to silence any political spending in Hawai‘i that isn't the faithful pillars of Democratic Party monopoly power.

Matayoshi, for his part, continues to express concern that this bill will get Hawai‘i into trouble, despite, in his view, the obvious need for its good intentions. He brings up an approach the House has been looking at, based on Mainland legislation, to simply cap the size of donations to Political Action Committees.

If the two Chambers can't agree on Friday to a version they can put forward for a final reading, it dies for this session.

passed the conference committee and goes before the Legislature for a vote on Wednesday. At a glance, it still makes an exception for corporate political speech in the form of news and commentary, applies penalties to foreign — meaning based outside of Hawai‘i — corporations conducting electioneering in Hawai‘i as if they were Hawai‘i-based, and does not seem to contain the labor union clarifications Keohokalole was looking for. 

The room greeted the passage with applause, including from the folks in 

 T-shirts seated near me when I attended the final vote. By the way, did you know that if you want to 

, the funds go to Mainland-based ActBlue Civics, 

 as a leftwing fundraising 501(c)(4) nonprofit?

One suspects they are confident their electioneering will remain unencumbered if this bill makes into law, despite all the rhetoric about keeping Mainland money from contaminating our local politics.

In any case, despite the bill's passage, Matayoshi and Keohokalole appeared glum as a result of whatever wrangling passed between them over the bill between its 3:30 p.m. hearing and its final vote. Judge for yourself 

 of the conference meeting, starting at 4:36:13.

A. Kam Napier is editor in chief of Aloha State Daily. His opinions in Pipikaula Corner are his own and not reflective of the ASD team.

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UPDATED 5/2: The joint conference committee has passed a revised SB 2471 on to the full Legislature, seeking to nullify for the Islands the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. As ASD Editor A. Kam Napier observes, lawmakers are offering more argument than evidence for the bill while being vague about whose speech they really mean to curtail — or protect.

Pipikaula Corner: The bill that won't name its target

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 is opening soon in Kapolei Commons. Its soft opening is coming soon (no exact date given yet), while its grand opening will be in January 2026.

The bakery is located by Massage Envy and Verizon Wireless (in the former space of Teriyaki Madness) in the shopping center.

This is the Japanese-style bakery’s sixth location on O‘ahu, but this store is different because it’ll have a larger menu, according to business owner Alberto Fernandez.

“This is the sixth location, but it’s not easier than any of the other ones before,” says Fernandez, who co-owns BRUG Bakery with his wife, Miho Choi Fernandez. “Now, we have more experience; we hope to do better overall as a team, to be organized and deliver a beautiful, high-quality product from day one. It’s a lot of feelings and emotions — stress, happiness, and excitement — all at once.”

The bakery is known for its soft breads made with high-quality ingredients, including flour from Hokkaido, Japan. The bread doughs are made daily by hand. BRUG makes more than 70 pastries each day.

At the new location, customers can find signature pastries like beef curry pan, Kuma choco custard, melon pan, neko pan filled with original strawberry buttercream and more.

“We’ll have melon pan, custard pan, all the ones that made BRUG famous in Hawaiʻi, as well as our loaves of bread,” Fernandez confirms.

He says the bakery’s Arabiki sausage roll, monkey bread, custard pan, melon pan, bacon epi and curry pan are some of the best-selling pastries. Eventually, the Kapolei store will have location-exclusive pastries, too.

Speaking of exclusive products, the Kapolei store will be the only one (for now) to offer Kuma-inspired cakes.

“We are not going to make custom-order mini cakes,” Fernandez clarifies. “We just wanted to create a product that can become very BRUG, something that — the same way when you see the Kuma (bear) chocolate — people think more about BRUG. We are very Kuma-inspired.”

Cakes will be made daily at the Kapolei store. Customers can look forward to desserts like strawberry shortcake, strawberry mousse cake, chocolate mousse cake, cream cheese panna cotta, strawberry panna cotta, custard cream puffs and more. Prices for the cakes, panna cottas and cream puffs are not yet available.

This is sixth location for BRUG Bakery, which is known for its soft breads and pastries made with high-quality flour from Hokkaido, Japan. The Kapolei location features exclusive cakes and an extended drink menu. The bakery’s soft opening will be soon; its grand opening will be in January 2026.

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