{"id":99,"date":"2004-10-17T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2004-10-17T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2004-10-17T23:00:16","slug":"tex-drive-in-honokaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2004\/10\/tex-drive-in-honokaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tex Drive In &#8211; Honokaa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tex Drive In is another Big Island institution, recommended in particular for its fresh, hot malasadas, dense Portuguese donuts served plain or with fruit or cream fillings.  It also serves a variety of cheap food, including burgers, sandwiches, stews and other Hawaiian specialties.<br \/>\nWe visited in on a Monday for lunch, before heading to the famed Waipio Valley.  We weren&#8217;t very daring in our choices, though probably should have been.  I ordered a roast beef sandwich, which consisted of a large soft loaf of bread, with cold commercial-type roast beef slices and tomato and lettuce on the side.  There were packets of mayo and mustard.  The whole thing was OK, though a roast beef sandwich is mostly dependent on the quality of its roast beef and this wasn&#8217;t very good.  It was a large sandwich and not a bad value at under $6 with fries.<br \/>\nMike had a fish burger and was quite happy with it, he said it was a better fish burger than any he&#8217;s had here. He&#8217;d order it again.<br \/>\nWe all shared a malasada for dessert (and bought more for the road) and while it was good, its main merit was that it was warm.  Otherwise it didn&#8217;t taste very different from a donut, though it was denser and somewhat less sweet.  The chocolate creme filling didn&#8217;t help it at all.  Krispy Kreme may be in trouble, but not from malasadas.<br \/>\nTex is a convenient stop on your way to or from the Waipio valley and for that reason alone I&#8217;d recommend it.<br \/>\nTex Drive In<br \/>\n45-690 Pakalana St.<br \/>\nHonokaa, HI 96727<br \/>\nTel: (808) 775-0598<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.texdrivein.com\/\">http:\/\/www.texdrivein.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tex Drive In is another Big Island institution, recommended in particular for its fresh, hot malasadas, dense Portuguese donuts served plain or with fruit or cream fillings. It also serves a variety of cheap food, including burgers, sandwiches, stews and other Hawaiian specialties. We visited in on a Monday for lunch, before heading to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}