Hawaiian Food

Hawaii's Favorite Foods

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The food of Hawaii reflects the racial diversity of the islands and creatively blends foods, tastes and textures from Hawaiian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and American cooking. Some of the island favorites follow below.

Hawaiian and Pidgin English Phrases
Name	Description
Saimin (most common & inexpensive)	Noodles in Soup
SPAM	SPAM, commonly eaten fried w/ scrambled eggs for breakfast or with rice
Kalua Pig	Roasted, shredded pig with Hawaiian salt
Lumpia	Filipino spring rolls
BBQ	Thinly sliced beef with Teriyaki marinade
Mac salad	Macaroni salad
Musubi	Salted plum, typically in the middle of a Japanese rice roll
Shoyu chicken	Chicken (typically thighs) boiled in Shoyu, sugar, ginger mixture until soft
Huli huli chicken	Grilled chicken, typically sold at fund raisers
Poki	Typically a mixture of fresh, raw tuna (aku or ahi), onions and seaweed (ahi limu poki); also made with octopus (tako poki) or white crab (crab poki)
Poi	Taro, boiled until soft and then pounded into a paste; eaten with appetizers such as poki or sometimes with shoyu or cream and sugar
Limu	Seaweed
Aku or Ahi	Tuna; Yellowfin Tuna
Ono	Wahoo
Mahimahi	Dolphin fish (not the mammal)
Malasada	Portuguese doughnut, typically deep fried and rolled in sugar
Portuguese Sweet Bread	Pao Dolce; sweet egg-based bread
Portuguese Sausage	Linguica sausage
Tripe Stew	Just like it sounds; typically in a tomato-based broth
Lomi lomi salmon	Diced raw salmon with onions, green onions, tomatos and salt
Bento	Mixed lunch take out (plate or box)
Bao	Chinese baked buns with varied fillings (pork, black bean, chicken, etc.)
Manapua	Chinese dim sum
Lau lau	Taro leaves, pork and salted fish wrapped in ti leaves and steamed
Joong	Sticky rice with pork and salted eggs wrapped in ti leaves and steamed
Char Sui	Sweet roast pork
Siu Gee Yook	Salted, fire roasted pork

Some of my favorite recipes:

Haupia (Hawaiian Coconut pudding squares)

4 c. coconut milk (2 cans + water to make 4 cups)

2/3 c. cornstarch

1 c sugar

Mix cornstarch and sugar with 1 1/2 cup of coconut milk.

Boil the remainder, stirring frequently. Lower heat and stir as

you pour starch mixture into boiling milk. Cook until thickened &

begins to bubble. Pour into 8" square pan. Cool. Refrigerate to set

until firm enough to cut into squares.

Zucchini Bread

1 cup oil

1 3/4 cup sugar

3 eggs

2 cup coarsely shredded zucchini

1/4 cup coarsely shredded carrots

3 cups flour

1 tsp salt

2 tsp bkg soda

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1 cup nuts and/or raisins (optional)

1 tsp vanilla

Squeeze water out of shredded vegetables then measure.

Beat eggs and sugar together. Add oil and vanilla. Add

vegetables first then dry ingredients. Stir/fold but do not overmix.

Fold in raisins and nuts as desired. Pour into 2 foil-lined loaf pans

(or greased and floured no-stick pans). Bake at 325 degrees

for 60-70 minutes or until a nice brown on top. Cool thoroughly.

Kalua Pig (haole style)

One medium sized pork butt

Hawaiian salt

Smoke flavoring

Gash pork butt and rub in Hawaiian rock salt and smoke

flavoring into gashes. Wrap in tin foil and bake at

350 degrees for 3-4 hours or until tender and easy to shred.

Cool until luke warm and then shred.