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

Food Paradise, Season 11 Honolulu, Hawaii

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Mochi Lab has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026.

What the source shows: Both of the pop-up's market locations (Blaisdell/Ward and KCC) are flagged permanently closed on Yelp; the business's own site is dead with no social activity since 2018. How we decide a status →

We have not confirmed map coordinates for this address yet.

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 original listing 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. The business's own website no longer works, and its Facebook page, which still lists a Wednesday Blaisdell and Thursday Kailua farmers-market schedule, has shown no activity since 2018.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 11

Episode 6
Air date not confirmed
Title: Hey Butter Butter · What was featured: Mochi Lab's handmade butter mochi in Honolulu
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 11 Food Paradise

Season 11: 73 of 126 still open · 7 renamed, moved or under new owners

All 15 Season 11 episodes →

All 96 TV restaurants in Hawaii →

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Sources we checked 4 references

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