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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
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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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