The Hawaiian Hut, Utah

Check out this awesome Tongan family in Utah serving their growing Polynesian community with foods from the Pacific!

The Hawaiian Hut is Utah's largest Polynesian market and serves people in the Salt Lake City area with authentic, traditional food and ingredients from the homelands of Tonga, Samoa and Hawaii.

Pelenaise Mataele, who runs the business alongside her family, has built the ethnic grocery store in to a gathering place for the growing Pacific Islander population in Utah.

Video courtesy of PBS Indie America. And check out The Hawaiian Hut on facebook!