Hawaiian Foods

Based on the descriptions, can you name these Hawaiian foods and drinks?

Like many other cuisines, a lot of these dishes are influenced by foreign cuisines (namely East Asian, Polynesian and mainland American ones)

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Staple mashed taro purée

Poi

Popular canned pork and ham product

Spam

Hawaii is a large producer of this canned fruit, influencing the name ‘Hawaiian pizza’

Pineapple

Cubes of marinated raw fish

Poke

Hawaiian term for (yellowfin) tuna

ʻAhi

Ice-based dessert flavoured with syrup and other sweet ingredients

Shave ice

Name for dishes cooked in an imu, a type of underground oven

Kālua

Rice topped with a hamburger patty, a fried egg and gravy

Loco moco

Rum, orange curaçao and orgeat (almond) syrup cocktail

Mai Tai

Portuguese sausage common in Hawaii

Linguiça

Local wheat noodle soup topped with fish cake and other East Asian toppings

Saimin

Roasted kukui nut (candlenut) and sea salt condiment

‘Inamona

Chewy coconut milk, glutinous rice flour and butter cake

Butter mochi

Cold, creamy pasta salad with mayonnaise

Macaroni salad

Dish combining white rice, an entrée (e.g. katsu or teriyaki), and the above

Plate lunch

Sweet, fluffy bread similar to brioche

Hawaiian roll

Chicken and glass noodle soup

Chicken long rice

Snack of no. 2 and rice wrapped in nori seaweed

Spam musubi

Small, bite-sized appetisers served at gatherings

Pūpū

Preserved fruits split open with the seed partially exposed

Crack seed

Mild yellow onion alternative whose name describes its flavour

Sweet onion

Portuguese fried doughnut, often filled

Malasada

Local version of baozi, typically filled with char siu (barbecue pork)

Manapua

Popular variant of tacos that differ from a traditional meat filling

Fish tacos

Korean-Hawaiian dish of battered and fried slices of marinated steak

Meat jun

Salted salmon, onion and tomato side dish

Lomi lomi salmon

Soup containing this aquatic green vegetable, and typically pork

Watercress soup

'Haupia' is a Polynesian gelatinous _______ pudding

Coconut

Salted and dried beef similar to jerky

Pipikaula

Fern plant salad

Pohole salad

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