Kau Kau Kitchen

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

I learned to make this dish from my Nana’s dear friend, “Queenie” Arioli (Edith Carolyn Laakaumokuakama Arioli née Sharratt). I was probably about nine years old, so this was over a half century ago! We were at a house party in one of those marvelous old sprawling Island-style homes out in Waiākea, back when Waiākea was on the outskirts of Hilo. I was sent into the kitchen to

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On the counter were bowls of the ingredients which we would lomilomi into the ʻōpelu

Ask what else goes into it besides what the menu lists.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask whether the fryer is shared with meat, and if there is egg in the batter.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Since learning about this beverage, I have been making it with with everything from pineapple to coffee cherry pulp to mangos. They all have been delicious! Some have had more “buzz” than others. I really should ante up and get a hydrometer so I can

Ask what else goes into it besides what the menu lists.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Nón lá after refurbishing

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Dǒulì pre-repairs. Note the bamboo edge un-edging! We are at my Dad’s hale. My husband is down in the crater weed-wacking

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Ask whether anything is added to it, on its own this is vegan.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask whether the broth is vegetable rather than meat or fish stock.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask whether the broth is vegetable rather than meat or fish stock.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask whether the pasta is egg-free, and to hold the parmesan.

Ask whether the pasta is egg-free, and to hold the parmesan.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

In those days, the electric power went out fairly regularly, so we would use kerosene lamps in the evening. Speaking of electricity, did you know that the

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Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Not mad but sort of a palate cleanse (pun intended) for all the stories we hear about culinarily conservative people turning their noses up at new foods. (Though maybe some of you might get mad about it because I added an ingredient normally not present—at least not in any I’ve ever had

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Reserve juice to blend with vinegar

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask whether it contains dairy, egg, anchovy or fish sauce.

Ask whether the rice is cooked in stock or finished with butter.

Ask whether the fryer is shared with meat, and if there is egg in the batter.

Ask whether the fryer is shared with meat, and if there is egg in the batter.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask whether the sauce uses fish sauce, oyster sauce, shrimp paste or chicken stock.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Ask whether it contains dairy, egg, anchovy or fish sauce.

Ask whether the beans are cooked with lard, bacon or a meat stock.

Ask whether it contains dairy, egg, anchovy or fish sauce.

Ask whether the fryer is shared with meat, and if there is egg in the batter.