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Kanemitsu's Bakery Kanemitsu Bakery counter selling lavosh (Molokai, Hawaii). Kanemitsu Bakery in Kaunakakai on the Hawaiian island of Molokai is a bakery known for its baked goods and the "hot bread" served out of its back door at night.
Molokai "hot bread"—a well-known export of Molokai that Anthony Bourdain featured it and was even a semifinalist for the renowned James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Baker [22] [23] Moon cakes—another favorite during the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival where local flavors are sometimes incorporated like mango and taro. [24]
Diners and drive ins served local ethnic foods in addition to the American fare such as Rainbow Drive-in, L&L, Liliha Bakery and Zippy's. Smaller mom-n-pop shops such as saimin houses, convenience stores were common in neighborhood serving pre-set bentos or a la carte items at an okazuya (Japanese "deli"). [37]
The plate lunch (Hawaiian: pā mea ʻai) is a quintessentially Hawaiian meal, roughly analogous to the Southern U.S. meat-and-three or Japanese bento box. The combination of Polynesian, North American and East Asian cuisine arose naturally in Hawaii, and has spread beyond it.
Poi is a traditional staple food in the Polynesian diet, made from taro.Traditional poi is produced by mashing cooked taro on a wooden pounding board (papa kuʻi ʻai), with a carved pestle (pōhaku kuʻi ʻai) made from basalt, calcite, coral, or wood.
The starchy core of the ferns was considered a famine food or used as pig feed. It was prepared by peeling the young fronds or placing the entire trunk with the starchy center in an ʻimu or volcanic steam vents. A saying was "He hāpuʻu ka ʻai he ai make" (If the hāpuʻu is the food, it is the food of death).
Hawaiians lived along the North Shore of Molokai including Waikolu Valley, cultivating taro and other food crops. These isolated valleys were visited in the summer months when the weather is calmer; in winter, heavy surf renders the beaches inaccessible by outrigger canoe, the islanders' chief form of transportation.
Moloka‘i coffee refers to a legally protected, geographical indication of coffee grown on the island of Molokai in Maui County, Hawai‘i, and processed to specific, legally defined standards. Similar to Kona coffee , Molokai coffee is a market name for a product of specific origin and of a defined quality.