Hawaiian Plate Lunch

I love the macaroni salad there.

Damn, that looks good.

Where's the Spam Musubi?

Barbecue chicken

Chicken katsu

Kalua pork

Lomi salmon

Loco moco

Here is the OP.

Chicken katsu is one of the few things I miss about Hawaii.

Make you own, R6.

Thanks r7, but the only meat I pound is my own.

R8 oh my

There are no Hawaiian restaurants where you live?

I could eat this every day for the rest of my life and die happy.

People can eat that much on a single day?

Don’t forget the butter mochi for dessert!

I loved the Hawaiian breakfast at McDonald’s which consists of white rice topped with a scrambled egg, spam and Portuguese chorizo on the side.

The macaroni salad was delicious as well.

Portuguese chorizo? Wouldn't that be linguiça?

I wouldn't mind having some nice Portuguese chorizo by my side.

I am the biggest, fattest whore who ever biggest, fattest whore has lived, and most of this I have found, to my shock and to the shock of my "friends", to be fucking disgusting. I wanted to love it so much too!

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Is this Atkins friendly?

That’s disgusting

Hey, fat whores: Don't forget oxtail soup and Lappert's specialty ice cream!

Hungry Fat Chick and Nicocado Avocado give their review of L&L Hawaiian BBQ.

R22 - That clip looks like an early movie by John Waters

What’s the thing on the top that looks like a deep fried hand?

It looks like a piece of chicken R24. There is no poi for the kalua pork!

R19 I am sure you were kidding but sweet fucking jesus this is as non Atkins as it gets. It isn't even fucking tasty, that's what I don't get. It tastes like a shitty tasteless plate of salty, starchy, shitty sadness, so why it is a "thing" now, is beyond me.

I think it's a fried dumpling or wonton r24.

Just curious R26, but what exactly is YOUR idea of something that "tastes good?"

Not that, r28

Of course you won't say what you consider to be "good food," R29.

You'd much rather criticize other people, than dare let others criticize you.

Typical chickenshit coward.

Poached cod and prunes, r28

It is delicious, but too full of carbs and deep fried everything. Excellent if you happen to swim and surf all day long, but fatness otherwise. This meal was created for the highly physically active, not slags.

I still think about the macaroni salad I had on Oahu.

R31 That dish cries out for one more ingredient, something with a little color, a touch of acidity to liven things up...

R6 Why don't you like Hawaiian people? They are usually nice on TV.

R15 Linguiça is a mild Portugese pork sausage (there’s a Brazilian variation also). There are multiple variations on Chouriço/Chorizo/Chorico. There’s a Portuguese style, Mexican, Spanish/French/Italian, Indian, Argetinian, etc. Both Linguiça and Portuguese Chouriço wind up in New England seafood dishes a lot.

This shit will kill you in a couple of months.

Last time I ate that I walked around the entire island!

[quote] Typical chickenshit coward.

R30 is frustrated because she can't criticize someone's tastes who DARED criticize a food trend. Why so fragile, R30?

How is it a "trend" when Hawaiians have been eating for years and years?

[quote]No wonder Hawaiians are fat whores!

Off-white trash!

[quote]I wouldn't mind having some nice Portuguese chorizo by my side.

Fresh!

*slap*

Chicken katsu is just a breaded and fried chicken cutlet or chicken schnitzel

Exactly, R43.

Schnitzel, Katsu, Chicken Cutlet. It's all the same.

Hawaiian cuisine is a fusion of the fattiest, blandest Asian and American food.

There are people that eat this 'bad' stuff at least several times a week. They end up fat and diabetic. Hawaii has had a diabetes problem for years. This plate lunch passion is mainly made up of comfort 'street' foods, and we all know comfort foods aren't known for being healthy. They must be viewed as occasional treat foods. No one eats fried chicken 7 days a week I'm guessing

You don't know the whole story though ...

These days plate lunches come with the option of subbing out white with brown rice, and green salad for mac salad. They offer grilled fish and meats rather than a fried protein.

I looked up that recipe someone posted for the mac salad. It's disgusting, and for my money, it's incorrect. I have never had celery or green onions in mac salad on a Hawaiian plate lunch. Carrots, yes, the other stuff, no. The amount of mayo that goes into mac salad is gross. It's more like slime salad to me. I won't eat it anymore.

Hawaiian cuisine is not bland at all. Yes, it is a fusion, but one of Asian, Polynesian, Spanish, and American cuisine/food. Hawaiian cuisine has become very popular for good reason. It is unique by blending great cuisines, using fresh, local ingredients. Plate lunch food is not our local cuisine. It's just our brand of street food like every other culture has.

Spam was long ago brought in by the military, and it became a popular item in the islands. During WWll spam was easy to get from the military bases.

I grew up, lived off and on in Hawaii my whole life. I currently reside there. I've experienced the changes in food and diet over many decades. Many of the posters here are not giving an accurate accounting of the cuisine. There are still those that want all the fatty crap on their plate lunches. I order the fried things too sometimes, but rarely these days. I treat things like katsu and fried chicken like a rare treat item., not an everyday food.

Visitors come home from Hawaii raving about the food. It's for good reason, it's totally unique, flavorful and it's a whole lot more than Spam, mac salad, and Korean fried chicken or katsu.

R46 Why does R6 hate you? What did you do to her?

I made her katsu in an air fryer.

[quote] How is it a "trend" when Hawaiians have been eating for years and years?

Because we're on the mainland, dear. And not Hawaiian.