Wednesday 27 July 2011

Guide To Tasty Hawaii Food

By Zeke Morganstern


Hawaii is recognized for a lot of things like: anthurium flowers, hula and surfing. But right now, I want to discuss Hawaiian foods. Hawaii is populated with folks with quite a few distinctive nationalities and its food reflects this substantial multitude of influences. Hawaii's food is really a blend of Hawaiian, Asian and European influences.

A Lau-Lau is really a savory Hawaiian food which ordinarily consists of pork, salted butterfish and taro root wrapped in an internal coating of taro leaves and then an outer coating of ti leaves, that are designed to seal in the moisture to keep the meat soft and moist. It's cooked within an imu (an underground oven) for many hours until the meat is so soft that it comes off the bone. When it is dished up, you open it up and consume everything but the ti leaves.

Spam musubi features a Japanese along with a contemporary Hawaiian influence. Musubis are definitely Japanese foods. They are hunks of salted rice which are occasionally covered with seaweed. While, spam was brought to Hawaii throughout World War II. Because meat was hard to find, during the war, island inhabitants began utilizing spam in several meals including spam musubi, which is essentially a musubi with a piece of spam. This love for spam has not diminished and Hawaii has one of the top per capita levels of spam consumption in the world.

Malasadas had been delivered here by Portuguese sugar plantation workers. They're a lot like donuts except they do not have holes in the center. The conventional reason for making them would have been to deplete all of the sugar and lard within the home before Lent. The immigrants would often share these tasty sweets with their community and this is how malasadas grew to become well-known in Hawaii.

Finally, poi was introduced here by the early Polynesians, who settled the islands. Poi is produced by mashing cooked taro root with water. A dense paste-like mixture is formed and it's the center piece of a conventional Hawaiian meal. A lot of folks remember their first experience with poi and numerous people state that it has a texture and consistency that resembles paste. But those that stick with it frequently acquire a preference for it.




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