Mawaiian: the new Hawaiian cuisine food truck surfing around Caen
By Thais Light
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“E komo Mai”, welcome! It is with this word displayed on his store that Mickaël Colart welcomes his customers.
In his van, he criss-crosses the surroundings of Caen (Calvados) to “introduce Hawaiian cuisine to as many people as possible”. Mikaël alternates a route between Mondeville, Ifs, Colleville-Montgomery and the night market of Lion sur Mer.
Open since the beginning of July 2022, its “Mawaiien Truck” food truck offers Hawaiian cuisine.
His speciality ? The poke bowl made with rice or carrots. The customers composing it themselves use their base, sauces, accompaniments, etc. for a price varying between ten euros or twelve euros. Mawaiien Truck also presents a “keiki” (child) formula for seven euros as well as desserts and drinks.
Bring Hawaiian cuisine around Caen
A former public works driver, Mickaël wanted to retrain in a profession where contact with customers was important. Falling in love with Hawaiian culture, he decided to start making poke bowls, a traditional Hawaiian dish. It is the “mixture of full of flavors, cultures, stories or even cuisines” that seduced this former site manager.
Mickaël is “the first in France to offer this traveling Hawaiian Food Truck concept”, according to him. With his blue van, Mickaël hopes to arrive a little Hawaii in Normandy. The curious could thus observe, on the food truck, the shaka (sign of surfers), turtles or even flowers and even learn a little more about the language by discussing with Mickaël.
A successful first serve
Mawaiian Truck carried out its first service in Merville-Franceville at the level of the kite-surfing school. Special place for this new boss: “It is there that I met my wife, on the beach of Merville-Franceville”. A successful bet since “the feedback has been positive”.
Recently opened, Mickaël is delighted with the success of his project: “We are starting to have a lot of contact. People want us in their homes. At Barneville Carteret I have 70% of the customers I served who did not know poké”, he discovered.
Practice. Mawai truck. Tel: 06 31 50 98 29. Camping des Salines Colleville-Montgomery: Monday lunchtime and evening – Wednesday lunchtime and evening. Leroy Merlin Mondeville: Tuesday and Thursday noon. La Minute Blonde Ifs: Wednesday noon. Lion Sur Mer night market: Thursday evening. Kite-R Evolution Merville-Franceville: Saturday noon and evening.
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