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Honolulu’s first upscale kitchen supply store stocks gorgeous bamboo cutting boards and other high-quality gifts for foodies.

Stylish women’s clothing boutique, featuring very chic imports.

A careful selection of gifts with island themes, many of them hand-made in Hawai’i by local artisans.

A lovely shop, chock full of fine quality paper goods, Hawai’ithemed cards, stationery, and wedding supplies.

These side-by-side open malls offer grocery shopping, dive shops, boat charter firms, and restaurants, as well as banking and dry cleaning services.

Another shopping center, with a vast supermarket, theater complex, many eateries, and places to rent water gear or arrange excursions along the coast.

For a flavor of what island grocery stores were like 50 years ago, visit Mel’s Market, a friendly one-stop store that offers hard-to-find ingredients for authentic lū’au dishes (salt meat and fish, raw crab, kukui nut relish, dried fish, and fish cake).

This exceptional shop offers one-of-a-kind keepsakes, original artwork, books, and jewelry. It’s also the place for Waimānalo rodeo posters and Hawaiian T-shirts.

This shop is a shrine to the career of a Samoan from Hawai’i who found fame in Japan as sumo wrestler Yokozuna Akebono. Sumo souvenirs and island bric-a-brac are sold.

Watch for charming roadside stands near Waimānalo. They sell fresh kahuku corn, fruits, chilled coconuts, tropical flowers, fresh or dried fish, and such ethnic specialties as pasteles (Puerto Rican tamales) and poke (raw fish and seaweed salad).