COURTESY MALIE KAI
Malie Kai Chocolates has expanded its shop at the Royal Hawaiian Center.
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Malie Kai Chocolates has reopened at the Royal Hawaiian Center with a store twice its original size.
The store, expanded to 426 square feet from its original 208 square feet, closed in October, reopening just before Thanksgiving.
“Our new shop not only lets us accommodate more than twice as many customers as before, but the expanded design has a better retail flow,” Nathan Sato, president of Malie Kai Chocolates, said in a statement. Sato also is a founding member of the Hawaii Chocolate and Cacao Association.
The original shop’s entrance remains, across from luxury watch retailer Tourneau, with a new second entrance directly off of Royal Grove, the center’s entertainment and cultural area.
The company’s small-batch chocolates are made exclusively from Hawaii-grown cacao. Signature bars in seven flavors are Malie Kai’s most popular items.
Its Hawaiian Rum Truffles are sold exclusively at the Waikiki boutique, which also will carry a new line of Kona Coffee Caramels.
The shop, on Level 1 of Building C, is open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Malie Kai opened its storefront in July 2013, after its debut as a farmers market vendor on the center’s rooftop several years before.
