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What Happened to Mochi Lab After Food Paradise? (Honolulu, HI)

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Status unconfirmed as of September 2026. We have no reliable signal and haven't been able to confirm what, if anything, currently operates at this address.

Primary source
Facebook ·
Secondary source
Yelp ·

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What the source shows: Honolulu Magazine and Facebook describe an ongoing farmers-market pop-up business, but two address-specific Yelp listings for the same name show permanently-closed status dated April and June 2026, so status is not conclusively settled.

Address

Honolulu, HI

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What happened after Food Paradise?

The episode featured Mochi Lab, a Honolulu business known for handmade butter mochi baked in small batches with rotating flavors, in a segment on butter-forward dishes. According to Honolulu Magazine, the business is run by Ashlee and Ippei Taniyama, who started making butter mochi after moving to Hawaii from New York, and it sells its mochi at pop-up stands at local farmers markets rather than from a fixed storefront. The address associated with this record in the sourcing packet matched a different, unrelated Mochi Lab business in North York, Ontario, Canada, and was not used here. Yelp listings tied to two past Honolulu street addresses, 4303 Diamond Head Rd and 777 Ward Ave, were marked permanently closed as of April and June 2026 respectively, while the business's Facebook page continued to list a Wednesday Blaisdell and Thursday Kailua farmers-market schedule, so current operating status could not be confirmed with certainty here.

Featured on Food Paradise

Season / episode
Season 11, Episode 6
Original air date
Not confirmed
Episode title
Hey Butter Butter
What was featured
Mochi Lab's handmade butter mochi in Honolulu
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Mochi Lab

Frequently asked questions

Is Mochi Lab still open in 2026?

Status unconfirmed as of September 2026. We have no reliable signal and haven't been able to confirm what, if anything, currently operates at this address.

What happened to Mochi Lab after Food Paradise?

The episode featured Mochi Lab, a Honolulu business known for handmade butter mochi baked in small batches with rotating flavors, in a segment on butter-forward dishes. Status unconfirmed as of September 2026. We have no reliable signal and haven't been able to confirm what, if anything, currently operates at this address.

Where is Mochi Lab located?

Honolulu, HI. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Food Paradise featured Mochi Lab?

Season 11, Episode 6 of Food Paradise. The episode is titled “Hey Butter Butter”.

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Visit info

Address
Honolulu, HI
Venue type
other
Official website
None found

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Sources

  • honolulumagazine.com — https://www.honolulumagazine.com/at-the-market-%E2%80%8Bmochi-lab/
  • Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/mochilab808/
  • Yelp — https://www.yelp.com/biz/mochi-lab-honolulu-3
  • Yelp — https://www.yelp.com/biz/mochi-lab-honolulu-2

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