Hands-Down Best Pumpkin Crunch

Yum!

We played hookey today and visited our friend Jim White’s church, Aiea United Methodist [ http://www.gbgm-umc.org/aieaumc/] off Moanalua Road and a stone’s throw from Aloha Stadium. Jim gave a great sermon using the 1983 classic “A Christmas Story” [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/] —the one with Ralphie whose mom is always talking about how he’ll shoot his eye out with a BB gun.

While there, we stopped at Aiea Bowl [ http://www.aieabowl.com/ ], on the other side of Moanalua Road from the church, to pick up some of their incredible desserts.

I know, dessert at a bowling alley? Yeah, only in Hawaii where many a bowling alley has been known to have a Strike Out menu (as in the now defunct Kam Bowl’s famous oxtail soup).

Aiea Bowl accurately profiles itself as “a new experience in entertainment.” It’s got the bowling alley, restaurant, take-out window, lounge, pro shop, and also catering business. They’ve left no pin unturned.

When we went in the table cashier side was fully involved in a meal involving several plates of their award-winning “Tasty Chicken” (now there’s a description), a hamburger steak plate, and a couple bowls of nearly finished oxtail soup. I also saw an order of pan-seared furikake ahi being whisked by.

I was so tempted to stay and eat…but for the sound of the bowling in the background – really just yards away. Imagine enjoying a meal with your loved ones and conversation spiked with the thunderous collisions of bowling balls crashing into falling, veering, spinning pins. Imagine, I couldn’t.

But I was there to pick up dessert: first, their famous multi-layered lemon crunch cake, but I also spied their season’s best: pumpkin crunch. Crumbly bottom encrusted with a hefty dose of walnuts. Fluffy, light, perfectly spiced pumpkin filling more chiffon than pudding. A full head of real whipped cream, lightly sweetened and dusted with cinnamon. To die for.


Aiea Bowl
99-115 Aiea Heights Dr., Suite 310, Aiea, HI
http://www.aieabowl.com | aieabowl@gmail.com
Bowling: 488-6854 | Restaurant: 486-3499

Menu [ http://www.aieabowl.com/restaurant.htm]

I should also mention that the website is advertising for help: models, cocktail waitresses, waitstaff, cooks, and bakers.

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