Hawaii
4 dishes from Hawaii, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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Saimin
Fresh wheat noodles in a thin shrimp-and-kombu broth with char siu, pink-edged fish cake and green onion — the noodle soup Hawaii's plantation camps built out of several kitchens at once, and whose noodle cannot legally be called a noodle in the United States.
- Total
- 45 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 480 per serving
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Ahi Poke
Raw yellowfin cut into cubes and dressed with coarse Hawaiian salt, limu and roasted kukui nut — a Native Hawaiian dish whose name is simply the Hawaiian word for a piece, with the soy and sesame version most people now order given as the later addition it is.
- Total
- 30 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 195 per serving
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Kalua Pig
Pork shoulder salted, wrapped and cooked for seven hours until it falls into threads — a home-oven stand-in for a Native Hawaiian dish whose name is the Hawaiian verb for cooking in the imu, the underground steam oven that a kitchen cannot reproduce and this page does not pretend to.
- Total
- 7 hr 45 min
- Serves
- 8
- Calories
- 370 per serving
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Loco Moco
A scoop of medium-grain rice under a hamburger steak, brown gravy poured over everything and an over-easy egg on top — a dish whose origin is unusually well documented, down to the Hilo cafe, the year, the couple who made it and the schoolboy whose nickname it carries.
- Total
- 45 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 710 per serving