The last of the March snow is still on the ground and I was wearing my down coat all day, so The Tasty Island, a Hawaiian food blog, struck me as drool-worthy in two ways - the reviews of yummy Hawaiian food and the amazing palm tree and beach backgrounds in the pictures. Check it out - coconut shrimp, fried mahimahi, lychee yogurt, takeout Japanese chicken katsu and way more, all rated on blogger Pomai's own Spam musubi rating system (Spam musubi, or spam on rice with seaweed, is an iconic Hawaiian snack) - five Spam musubi means superb, one means average. I'm considering trying to make the sweet, glutinous rice cakes called kakanin with coconut topping, which Pomai describes as the lovechild of a Rice Krispie treat and a mochi (Japanese glutinous rice dessert). I wonder if there are any cheap tickets to Hawaii on Travelocity?
A fraking amazing Battlestar Galactica cake
Iced Tea 101
Pierogies + cheese + onions + kraut = Parmageddon!
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3-17-2008 @ 10:20AM
Rita said...
My favorite go-to food blogs when I lived in Hawaii:
http:www.onokinegrindz.com
http://www.bigislandgrinds.com/
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3-18-2008 @ 11:07AM
gah said...
Kakanin is not at all like a rice krispy treat or mochi.
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3-18-2008 @ 11:12AM
cameltoe said...
Kakanin is a Filipino food, not Hawaiian.
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3-18-2008 @ 8:39PM
RobynT said...
Yeah... I wouldn't call any of that food Hawaiian... maybe Local... I feel like "Hawaiian" is reserved for more traditional stuff like kalua pig, lau lau... "traditional" is maybe debatable, but my sense is that that's what is generally considered Hawaiian in Hawai'i.
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