Best street food in Hawaii

‘To seriously understand our lifestyle, you gotta try the food’

HONOLULU (KHON2) — From the creators of Chef’s Table, the strike series Street Food: United states premiered on Netflix on Tuesday. Viewers can get a flavor of the greatest bites from American streets and learn the coronary heart and soul of the individuals driving the food stuff. This is the third go-spherical for the present, which beforehand covered Asia and Latin The us.

This time, the cameras change to a fifty percent-dozen U.S. metropolitan areas, commencing with Los Angeles. They also check out dishes in Portland, New York City, New Orleans, Miami and the place wherever you can find the freshest poke and finest lunch vans — Oahu, Hawaii.

Area radio/Tv personality Lanai Tabura co-hosted Episode 5 which explores Hawaii’s food stuff culture.

“Hawaii is this sort of a one of a kind put. It is the most secluded spot in the world when you appear at it on a map,” Tabura explained on the present. “You know, all people thinks of Hawaii as this wonderful put for sunsets and shorelines and surfing and hula — and Hawaii is all of that — but to truly fully grasp our society, you gotta attempt the meals.”

Tabura defined that Hawaii’s foodstuff has generations and generations of culture and record.

Down below are scenes from Oahu’s episode in Road Food: United states of america.

“Traditional Hawaiian foodstuff has normally been uncomplicated: fish and poi. And then when these diverse ethnicities arrived to function on the sugar plantations, the Chinese, the Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Portuguese, and they gave us distinct substances, and that definitely modified the landscape of the menu in Hawaii,” he claimed.

Tabura instructed KHON2 that it was an wonderful working experience for him, and that it was nice to showcase Kapena and his daughter Kiani, as effectively as her greatest buddy Ku’u, dancing hula on the present.