Menchies Part Deux
This is a second review of menchies, the first review here was done by our fabulous contributor potbellypig of the genus Sus Scrofa (by the way, hello there whoever you are who just arrived here via a search engine searching for the genus of potbellypigs).
My wife Shirley and I had spent the ENTIRE day working in our yard clearing out brush from our yard from the recent storm and high winds. My arms looked like hamburger, they were covered with cuts and scrapes from dealing with bamboo that seemed to poke me no matter how I grabbed it along with some macadamia nut branches with leaves that have small thorns on them. My back was aching, my arms were tired, and we still needed to go shopping at Costco to buy a whole load of food for a party we were having the next day (not to mention a hike I was doing early in the morning before the party). What can I say, we’re busy people!
Realizing that Costco closed at 6pm, we quickly showered and went off to Costco. You know, I just realized we go to Costco a lot don’t we?
Costco was a blur of us loading up our cart with food and then paying for everything and loading up the car. Our car was packed, we were ready to drive back, but then we realized we hadn’t even had eaten dinner! Neither Shirley or I had the strength or desire to make our own dinner so we came to the conclusion that we should pickup something quick.
We decided to head towards Ward Center to see what we would see along the way and as we got closer to Ward we saw Menchies.
“Hey look, Menchies!” Shirley said. “We should go there after we eat!”
Realizing that some of our food needed to be refrigerated, I said, “I don’t know if we’ll have time for menchies because of our food in the car. In fact, where can we go to eat that’s quick??”
“Hmm.. ” Shirley pondered. “I don’t know! But menchies sounds really good, you sure there won’t be time?”
That’s when inspiration struck. Why should we be slaves to convention? What sort of dictator came up with the rule that dessert must follow a meal? In fact, by following this totalitaristic dogma of eating sequences, we were contributing to the domestication of man’s free spirit. We owed it to ourselves, NAY, to society and to the world to break this absurd tradition. We were going to do the unthinkable.
“Why don’t we just eat menchies for dinner?” I said.
Shirley looked at me as if I was some sort of prophet heralding the coming of something fabulous and fantastic. “HALLELUJAH!” she screamed as her eyes rolled back in her head and foamy spittle dribbled from her mouth as she began gibber and moan in some sort of religious ecstacy. Okay maybe it didn’t quite happen that way, maybe all she said was “Yeah that sounds pretty good”, but isn’t the hallelujah story a lot more dramatic?
That’s how we found ourself at menchies - tired, hungry, and ready to EAT!
Menchies is located at Ward Warehouse almost right across the street from the Ward Stadium theaters. They are located at 1050 Ala Moana Blvd and their phone number is (808) 592-9292. They're open Sun - Thurs: 11am-10pm and Fri - Sat: 11am-11pm
Here's a view into the inside from outside. It is very nicely lit and very artistic looking.
The area where you serve your yogurt, get the toppings, and pay is a circular area. This is a nice setup and is very efficient, a much better designed process flow than that of Yogurtland near University.
After you grab a cup (or a waffle cup!! for I think $1 extra), you self-serve the yogurt from these machines. They have all kinds of flavors like vanilla, chocolate, original tart, peanut butter, pistachio, cake mix, lychee tart, and more that I can't remember. Don't serve TOO much because you gotta leave room for toppings!
They then have some containers of hot toppings like caramel and fudge! Yes I know there are three containers and I only mentioned two, I don't remember what the fudge the last one was.
Then it is on to the dry toppings. Cereals galore! Brownie pieces! M&M's! Nuts! Chocolate bars! Candys! Jelly Beans! (jelly beans aren't the best idea, they get really hard in cold stuff). All kinds of wondrous things here to choose from, they even have Captain Crunch!
Finally it is the last station. Here are the fresh fruits like blueberries, strawberries, kiwi, mango, and banana. They also have things like brownie pieces, mochi, cookie dough bits, condensed milk and other marvelous confections.
After loading up with everything that your heart and stomach desire, you put it on a scale and they charge you $0.43 per ounce. Our total for two jam-packed cups was $14 plus change. OUCH!! A bit pricey but I must admit, I loaded my cup all the way to the top (you’ll see).
Here's our two cups. Notice that my cup on the right is WAAAY above "mix master!!!" and into the territory of "Super Bad Ass" (unfortunately they don't have that on the cup, but they should!)
Here's a picture of Shirley's cup. She was very disappointed in the look of her cup and all the messy splotches on the left side. The reason for the splotches was because she had initially put some SUGAR-FREE chocolate yogurt in her cup without realizing that it was sugar free. She HATES fake sugar, so when she found out her error, she surreptitiously dumped it out in one of the discard bins when the workers weren't looking and replaced it with yogurt made with REAL wholesome sugar, the way life was meant to be.
Here's a picture of my yogurt. Otherwise known as PERFECTION IN A CUP. Truly a wonderous thing of beauty and balance with no splotchyness in site.
We both enjoyed our dessert-dinners immensely! I honestly like both yogurtland and menchies, for me it is more a matter of which location I am closer to at the time. Menchies is a little bit more expensive but has better ambiance. Yogurtland is cheaper but feels a little more like a cafeteria in the way it is designed. Either one will satisfy your yogurt cravings!
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omg! i wanna go yogurt land! but if its onli like 39 cents…then how the hell does it turn out to be like expensive?is it cus theres like alota toppings?
Yeah and lots of yogurt too! It is really insiduous cause you have your own bowl and control of the yogurt and toppings and no matter what I end up filling the cup! Before you know it you got 16 ounces of weight which is $6.25! Check it out though, it’s fun and delicious even if sometimes you feel like you are gonna explode afterwards. haha
Update! We went yet again to this place and loaded up on the goodies. Here’s 4 creations (my dad, my nephew, my wife, and mine). Total bill: $27.50. DOUBLE YIKES. It does get expensive. We got waffle cones on some of ours too which was pretty good, but I think they double charge you because they charge you $1 for the waffle cone and then they weigh it again and charge you! Despite this, it was still delicious.