Part 3: Things To Eat
check out all the red markers on the Google Map. 
all around the place are Zippy’s restaurants. its a step above fast food. definitely worth checking out. i love the Zippy’s Chili, but try a plate lunch from them. (a plate lunch is a hawaiian institution. its 2 scoops of rice, 1 scoop of macaroni salad, and a meat.) and where ever you go for lunch, make sure to get a lilikoi. its a drink made from passion fruit juice. i can drink it by the gallon!
some of the things you might find in a plate lunch.
thats lomi salmon, aku (tuna) onion poke, and poi in the cups on the left on the plate is haupia (you need to try that. its like coconut jello), kalua pig, rice, and an unopened laulau.
when you go out for poke, the absolute staple is Lomi Salmon. if you’ve never had raw fish before, this would be a very good stepping stone. you could call it a “salad”, but look at it too quick and you might mistake it for pico de gallo. basically its diced tomatoes, green onions, and salted raw diced salmon. (the good ones have a bit of inamona in it.) but the salt and acid from the tomatoes will partially cook it, like a ceviche. just get a big tub and eat it with rice. soooo good. you can also get it as a side at most plate lunch places.
my absolute favorite place to get poke is Tamashiro Market! :thumbsup:
this is always my first stop as soon as i get off the plane.
consider going to McDonald’s for breakfast one morning.
instead of a pancake/egg/sausage Big Breakfast, you can have rice, spam and eggs!
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some tasty things that you definitely need to try are kalua pig and laulau. (as pictured above.) kalua pig is shredded pork from a pig that has been roasted (traditionally) in an imu, which is a pit dug in the ground then coals/wood, lava rocks are placed at the bottom to do the cooking, then a layer of banana leaves and ti leaves are put over the fire, then the whole pig, then covered with more leaves and a burlap sack. its left in the pit all day which roasts and smokes it. when it comes out, the meat is so delicious and tender. it just falls apart. and laulau is a pouch made out of a ti leaf. in it is a piece of pork, a piece of butterfish, and the leaves from the taro plant (it tastes like spinach) and the whole pouch is steamed. when you open it up, all the flavors taste like magic. 
if you have a sweet tooth, then do not miss Leonard’s Bakery!
their filled malasadas are nothing short of amazing :yes:
damn i’m getting hungry now 
hawaiians love their food. look heres a song about it
(pipikaula is hawaiian beef jerky. pipi means cow. but kau kau means eat )
Sean Na’auao - Fish & Poi
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpteUCfJJQ
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