i really need to know im doing a project and i cant find anything good so can someone help me?
2006-10-12 09:50:46 · 21 answers · asked by toora14 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Hawaiians use a lot of rice in their meals (they basically have it for breakfast, lunch and dinner).
One of the famous meals is loco moco (Wikipedia has a good article about it, also look in (http://www.royalelephant.com/hawaii/local/locomoco.htm) and they love Kailua roasted pork.
Japanese culture also influence cuisine, so a lot of people eat sushi, sushimi, musubi, sea weed, saimin soups... Hawaiians love and cook a lot of fish (mahi-mahi, ahi (tuna), crab meat, shrimp, etc.)
In addition to these, try researching 'poi' and 'poke' (special way of marinating the fish), which are also quite popular.
This is just off the top of my head but I hope this helps :)
Good luck!
2006-10-12 10:33:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you're talking about Hawaii. Hawaiian food should be some of the popular foods. Some Hawaiian food would be: Lau Lau, Poi, Lomi Salmon etc...
Check out the link provided below:
2006-10-12 16:54:51 · answer #2 · answered by mjangel28 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since Hawaii is a melting pot of many cultures, the foods people enjoy are many. The "plate lunch" is a popular dish at many restaurants, which consists of teriyaki beef or chicken, a piece of mahi-mahi fish (usually baked or sauteed), pork cutlet with brown gravy, 2 scoops of sticky white rice and a scoop of macaroni salad. This is typical...your standard luau menu may include kalua pig (which is a roasted pork that is shredded), poi, lomi salmon, fish, teriyaki chicken, etc...Hope this helps. P.S. Spam is huge over there! (Comes in a can.)
2006-10-12 16:59:48 · answer #3 · answered by OC Mom 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's a dish called "loco moco" which includes a hamburger patty with a soft-cooked egg and gravy on top served over rice with Mac salad on the side. If you google for "loco moco" I'll bet you'll find other hawaiian food sites.
2006-10-12 17:00:42 · answer #4 · answered by JustMe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's an example of how seriously those Hawaiians take their Spam:
I had a McDonald's breakfast meal on Maui that was white rice and fried Spam
2006-10-12 17:39:40 · answer #5 · answered by doug k 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
spam is a huge thing down there, haha! but for a 'hawaiian' holiday food feast check out the link, it's an episode from food network and i LOVE these dishes!
another suggestion, if you like sushi:
spam wrapped with rice and sea leaves. we'd have that for lunch when i attended high school there!
a typical traditional hawaiian luau would consist of pork, rice, poi and a coconut pudding.
2006-10-12 17:01:32 · answer #6 · answered by blair 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
on my visit to Hawaii, i went into a 7-11. and you know how usually theres a rotisserie machine with hot dogs on them? well instead they had seaweed wrapped spam. just grap and go! another thing they had that i found weird but very tasty, was there snow cones(flavored any way you like) with vanilla ice cream underneath, THEN under that was sweet red kidney beans! tasty though!
2006-10-12 19:18:22 · answer #7 · answered by Yak-Yak 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Poi, an atrocious mix of ground taro root mixed with water. Sweet potatoes, Luau pork-mashed up. Lomi-lomi salmon. Anything Japanese or Korean with a local twist. Lots of Spam. Spam with everything!!!! It seems very fattening. Great salts...including black salt, but Hawaiians' like their food fairly sweet. See if you like it.
2006-10-12 17:07:53 · answer #8 · answered by robert r 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Spam... Honestly... Spam
I like Macadamia nut encrusted Mahi Mahi
2006-10-12 16:59:47 · answer #9 · answered by Rob B 69 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Spam, poke, lau lau, kalua pig, poi, mac salad, rice!!!!, Portuguese sausage, loco moco (hamburger covered w/ gravy and egg over rice), gravy burger, teri burger, shave ice....ummmm I'm getting hungry....
2006-10-12 16:59:18 · answer #10 · answered by LB 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋