Hawaii/Big Island: Hawaiian Food Recap
When you come to Hawaii you should go straight on poke diet – it’s so amazingly delicious. Poke is a traditional Hawaiian dish that consists of cubed raw fish (usually ahi tuna) marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, sesame oil, green onions, and other seasonings. Add rock salt and seaweed! It’s quite flavorful and very very different from sashimi. Plus it comes in a myriad of variations and ingredients – we tried new pole almost every day. Other truly Hawaiian specialties included Lomi salmon – cubed salmon with salt, tomatoes and onion, Loco moco – hamburger steak over rice topped with eggs and gravy, Poi – puréed taro paste, and of course spam (they even serve spam in McDonalds, almost a Hawaiian national dish lol). The eastern side of the Big Island in and around Hilo has a large Japanese population and community and thus offers awesome sushi and other traditional Japanese dishes. Oh, and we also went to the southernmost bakery in the USA near the Punaluu Black Sand Beach.
