The cuisine of Hawaii incorporates five distinct styles of food that reflect the settlement and immigration history of the islands, primarily Polynesian, North American and East Asian cooking. In the pre-contact period Polynesian voyagers brought plants and animals, and Native Hawaiians fished, raised taro for poi, planted coconuts, sugarcane, sweet potatoes and yams, and cooked meat and fish in earth ovens. After 1778 missionaries and whalers introduced New England cooking and salted fish that became lomi-lomi salmon, and plantation labor from China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Portugal produced a local food style that includes the plate lunch, Spam musubi and loco moco.
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Features Dish
Source Huli-huli chicken (Wikipedia)
Source Loco moco, Wikipedia
Source Lomi-lomi salmon, Wikipedia
Uses Ingredient
Source Hawaiian Cuisine (Wikipedia)
Source Hawaiian Cuisine (Wikipedia)
Source Hawaiian Cuisine (Wikipedia)
Source Hawaiian Cuisine (Wikipedia)
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1. Hawaiian Cuisine (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia article, lead section
The cuisine of Hawaii incorporates five distinct styles of food, reflecting the diverse food history of settlement and immigration in the Hawaiian Islands, primarily originating from Polynesian, North American and East Asian cuisines.[a] In the pre-contact period of Ancient Hawaii (300 AD-1778), Polynesian voyagers brought plants and animals to the Islands.
Uses Ingredient: Taro, Wikipedia article text
As Native Hawaiians settled the area, they fished, raised taro for poi, planted coconuts, sugarcane, sweet potatoes and yams, and cooked meat and fish in earth ovens.
Uses Ingredient: Coconut, Wikipedia article text
As Native Hawaiians settled the area, they fished, raised taro for poi, planted coconuts, sugarcane, sweet potatoes and yams, and cooked meat and fish in earth ovens.
Uses Ingredient: Sweet Potato, Wikipedia article text
As Native Hawaiians settled the area, they fished, raised taro for poi, planted coconuts, sugarcane, sweet potatoes and yams, and cooked meat and fish in earth ovens.
Uses Ingredient: Salmon, Wikipedia article text
Whalers brought in salted fish, which ultimately became lomi-lomi salmon.
View the SourceLoco moco, Wikipedia
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Loco moco is a dish featured in contemporary Hawaiian cuisine.
Lomi-lomi salmon, Wikipedia
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Lomi-lomi salmon (or lomi salmon) is a side dish in Hawaiian cuisine containing salted salmon, onions, and tomatoes.
Wikipedia, Saimin
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Saimin (from Cantonese Chinese: 細麵, sai³ min⁶, thin (wheat) noodles, or 細麵條湯 sai³ min⁶ tiu⁵ tong¹, vermicelli soup) is a noodle soup dish common in the contemporary cuisine of Hawaii.
Huli-huli chicken (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Huli-huli chicken, lead paragraphQuote, Features Dish: Huli-huli chicken, lead paragraph
Huli-huli chicken is a grilled chicken dish in Hawaiian cuisine, prepared by barbecuing a chicken on a revolving spit (in Hawaiian: hulihuli reduplicated from huli 'turn') over mesquite wood, and basting it with a sweet huli-huli sauce.
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