Plate lunch
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The plate lunch is a 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
Mixed plate lunch served at the Rainbow Drive-In in Honolulu
Traditional Hawaiian plate lunch. Clockwise, from bottom left: two scoops of white rice, ahi poke, lomi-lomi salmon, haupia dessert, kālua puaʻa (roast pork), and pork laulau.
Kālua pork combination plate lunch
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Loco moco
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Loco moco is a dish featured in contemporary Hawaiian cuisine. Traditionally, loco moco consists of white rice, topped with a hamburger patty and brown gravy, and a sunny-side-up fried egg. Modern pre
Plate lunch
…notably American element is the hamburger steak, a ground beef patty smothered with brown gravy served atop rice; adding a sunny-side-up egg makes it a loco moco. Other common side dishes with plate lunches include fried noodles, often chow mein, chow fun or saimin; the Hawaiian taegu, a dish made of shredded…
Gravy over fried egg, hamburger, and rice.
A loco moco plate lunch, with yakisoba (left) and macaroni salad (right).
A traditional loco moco.
Loco moco served with a side of macaroni salad.