Hawaii Street Food

5 dishes in United States

5 street foods from Hawaii, United States: Hawaiian Shave Ice, Poke, Malasada, Loco Moco and Manapua. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Hawaii

Walk-Up Window · Shaved Ice Hawaiian Shave Ice Hawaiian shave ice traces back to Japanese plantation workers' kakigori, brought to the islands in the early 1900s and shaved so fine it's often… A block of ice is shaved into ultra-fine flakes and mounded into a cup, then soaked in layers of tropical syrups like lilikoi, li hing mui, or coconut. Some shops tuck a scoop of ice cream… Poke Shop · Raw Fish Salad Poke The original Native Hawaiian poke used no soy sauce at all — it was raw reef fish seasoned with sea salt, seaweed, and crushed kukui nut long before… Cubed raw ahi tuna is tossed with soy sauce, sesame oil, green onion, and seaweed, then scooped into containers to go from poke counters in grocery stores and food trucks. Countless local… Bakery Window · Portuguese Doughnut Malasada Leonard's Bakery in Honolulu, opened in 1952 by Leonard Rego, the grandson of Portuguese immigrants, still fries malasadas fresh to order, with… Egg-rich dough is deep-fried until golden and puffy, then rolled in sugar while still hot, with no hole and no filling in the traditional version. Bakery walk-up windows sell them warm by… Plate Lunch Counter · Rice and Gravy Loco Moco It was invented in 1949 at the Lincoln Grill in Hilo, when the owners threw together rice, a hamburger patty, and gravy because local teens wanted… A mound of white rice is topped with a hamburger patty, a fried egg, and brown gravy, all eaten together with a fork straight from a plate-lunch container. It's a fixture of Hawaii's… Corner Store · Steamed Pork Bun Manapua The name shortens 'mea 'ono pua'a,' Hawaiian for 'delicious pork thing' — plantation-era locals scaled up the Chinese char siu bao into a bigger… A fist-sized bun of soft white dough is stuffed with sweet char siu pork, then steamed or baked and kept hot in warming cases at corner stores and lunch wagons across the islands. Chicken…

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