Mandala

 I often write about the unusual foods and eateries we have encountered. We have spent several winters in Kauai, and it is a small island, so there has not been many opportunities to report on something new. Mandala is new to us. It is located in the strange community of Anahola, which, it seems, is made from metal shipping containers. We had thought Mandala was a coffee truck and intended to stop by someday. When we finally decided it was time, we found it was quite different from what we had anticipated.

Mandala was far from a coffee shop and I am not certain you could get a coffee there. Mandala Living Foods describes itself as a gourmet café, elixir bar, and kombucha brewery. I would say high-end hippie vegetarian.

The dish closest to the camera is pad thai, which is my "go to" when eating at places like this. However, the noodles are not grain-based and was something fashioned from a vegetable - sesame zucchini noodles. Drinks were a golden milk and a coffee fix (not coffee, but something described as healthy - Our coffee alternative blend of dandelion, chicory root, and burdock root that creates an earthy aroma that's delicious warm or over ice).