Well, it was bound to happen. Teri Hawaii is now dead to me. Why?I knew ownership* had changed during my last visit. The furnishings had a touch of the "Pinkberry" feel - those colorful plastic stool-like chairs that have that art deco pseudo futuristic look that is a far cry from the previous tables with attached chairs as seen in most McDonald's. Also gone were all the Hawaiian paraphernalia like Hawaiian music CD's, pictures, etc.
I also noticed that the prices had jumped up a bit, but considering my only requirement is for the Hawaiian shaved ice, and it had hovered around $2.00 for over a decade, I felt I could live with that. BUT, it had to taste the same. I got my favorite Banana flavor with Kreme (a watered down sweetened condensed milk flavoring) and it was heavenly. But this past visit, I knew it was over.
I ordered my same item and pulled out my two bucks with my change purse open to cover the extra Kreme flavor. However, I did a double take with an , "ex-squeeze me? Um, a baking powder?," when the girl told me it'll be $3.24.
$3.24 for one shaved ice? That was unheard of! I stepped back, after paying, to look at the board. The board said $2.00 for shaved ice. But then, it listed each flavor as $0.65 cents each. WTF was that!? It's always been a given that when ordering the shaved ice, you get ONE FLAVOR for the price of a shaved ice. They were now charging $2.00 for ice??? Not to mention, they charged me $2.20 and not just $2.00 so that means they raised their prices again?
Now, all that said, I could ALMOST live with it as long as it satisfied my need for a yummy Hawaiian shaved ice. Teri Hawaii was famous for their shaved ice because of their super secret syrup flavors. When I took a few bites of mine, I knew it was watered down (something I had feared since I noticed the change in ownership). And I knew it wasn't that there wasn't enough syrup since the ice was thoroughly soaked but there was NO FLAVOR.
Well it was, sadly, one more place off my list of Gardena Good Eats that I can erase. It breaks my heart because that is a big part of my childhood - a real treat to get one that tastes as good as when I was a little girl.
Oh well, indeed.
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*New owners seem to be Korean. As I told our friend DS, I loved that his reaction was the same as mine, "OH NO!"
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