BobbyC

My friend is visiting home in honolulu this week and I wanted him to pick me up some actual blue java bananas. Is there is a market or store he can get them at this time of year? Thanks

cheson74

Unless he sneaks them on the plane, the bananas will be confiscated at Honolulu Airport. He can buy bue javas at Foodland and Chinatown.

__________________

Gabe15

Kokua market on King Street sometimes has them too.

__________________
Growing bananas in Colorado, Washington, Hawaii since 2004. Commercial banana farmer, 200+ varieties.

chong

So very true! The only way that you can bring fruits from HI is if the fruit is from a certified grower. The fruit will be so labeled as permitted to be transported to the US mainland.

john_ny

I don't know how much things have changed in recent years, but during a 26 year career in the Navy/ Naval Reserve, in an air transport squadron, we made many trips to Hawaii. We always brought pineapples back and on several trips, I also brought papayas. (Papayas, however, had to be in a sealed carton, with a stamp stating that they had been through a methyl bromide chamber.) On one trip, we returned via Panama. We then loaded up with bananas, on top of the pineapples. At the time, I had an employee, who was in the Air Force Reserve, and he was going to Panama, during a world-wide sugar shortage. He brought back a couple of hundred pounds of sugar.

__________________
John