Unfortunately I am not one of them, but at least this blog I can post a bit of what's new with me.
So a few days ago my girlfriend and I went down to the States for a bit of walking around and shopping (standard stuff). I don't know about other people, but I've become a big fan of the big stores down in the States like Target and Fred Meyer (we had clam chowder and corn dogs for breakfast) <-- love the retro-ness of corndogs, it brings me back to the one time I had it as a child.
The morning of, I thought to check out whether there were any close Triple D's (Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives show on Food Network) reviewed locations. I honestly hate and love watching that show, because all it features is a guy named Guy who goes around eating all the best of the bad-for-you foods.
The closest location I could find for our trip was 'Bobby's Hawaiian Style Restaurant.' For those who are familiar with the show, Bobby's was not one of the regular types of food places featured since most of the joints shown are burger type joints.
I thought it would be a good idea to try something different from our usual (which is usually Outback Steakhouse, which has an awesome 26 oz. Steak known as the Melbourne) and try some Hawaaiian food.
I must say the food was good, but not wholly 'new' to my surprise.
We had the Hawaiian Sampler platter whcih had Kalua pig, LauLau (pork wrapped in Taro leaves), Lomi Salmon (fresh salmon and tomatoe salad likened to a salsa) and Poke (Raw cubes of Ahi Tuna marinated in Soy sauce) with Spam Musubi (its a Spam sushi).
As you might guess from the Poke description, why I wasn't too surprised with the Hawaiian style food with my Asian background.
What was surprising to me was that 'Hawaiian food' is so strongly influenced by 'Japanese/Asian food.' The Kalua pork was just pulled pork and the LauLau reminded both my girlfriend and I of the Asian Pork and Vegetable soup we regularly have at home. Not to say the food wasn't good, but I was expecting the food to be 'different' from my norm, which in that respects kind of disappointed.
Aside from that I can say I've tried some Hawaiian food, but I would still like to be able to one day go to Hawaii and enjoy a traditional luau.
Mmmm I looove ahi tuna. Yeah, Hawaiian food is rather highly influenced by Japanese/Asian cultures haha at least it was presented differently than at home.
ReplyDeleteThat last photo is a nice reminder of why I once stopped eating meat lol
Unfortunately the food was not presented or done the same way as seen in photos (I just google grabbed them for visuals)
ReplyDeleteDid you stop eating meat entirely? the last pic does the opposite for me :P I want to go to Hawaii FOR that experience.
Hahahaha I stopped eating meat from animals that roamed the land. I'm considering stopping again when I move to Lake Louise, because one of the challenges was having my mother constantly nagging at me and strongly encouraging or even trying to trick me into eating meat.
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