Aloha Mixed Plate: Maui's “Best Plate Lunch"
Experience the traditional foods of the varied ethnic groups that call Hawaii home (the plate lunch...or mixed plate). In the early days of the Hawaiian sugar plantations, lunch was a simple affair. Plantation workers would get together in the fields for lunch and bring their specialities (the Japanese laborers would bring teriyaki beef with rice and pickled vegetables, the Filipinos would bring adobo or perhaps a pork or chicken stew, the Koreans had their kalbi or marinated ribs the Chinese a rice noodle and vegetable dish called chow fun and the Hawaiians were known for their kalua pig) It wasn’t long before they began to share their foods with one another and the “mixed plate” was born. “Two scoops rice” and “one scoop macaroni salad” always accompany the traditional plate lunch. I would recommend the Kalbi Ribs (Korean style sesame teriyaki marinated short ribs) or the Aloha Mixed...
