Recipes

North Shore Garlic Shrimp

Seafood 15 min · Easy · Serves 4 Kahuku on Oahu's North Shore has been farming shrimp in brackish ponds since the 1970s, and by the 1990s the trucks parked...

Kalbi Short Ribs

Beef 30 min + overnight marinade · Easy · Serves 4 Korean galbi came to Hawaii with plantation labor in the early 1900s and never left. On the islands it...

Grilled Spam Musubi

Pork 15 min · Easy · Makes 8, serves 4 Spam landed in Hawaii with the military in WWII and stayed because it kept without refrigeration and took to shoyu...

Pulehu Chicken Thighs

Poultry 30 min · Easy · Serves 4 Same principle as pūlehu steak, applied to the cut that suits a beach fire better than any other. Pūlehu is broiling over...

Misoyaki Butterfish

Seafood 30 min + 2-day marinade · Intermediate · Serves 4 Misoyaki is the Hawaii name for a Japanese technique — saikyō-yaki, fish cured in sweet white miso — and...

Grilled Sipi (Lamb Flaps)

Lamb · Tonga 3.5 hrs · Intermediate · Serves 4-6 Sipi is Tongan for sheep, but on a plate it means lamb flaps — the fatty belly ribs, shipped in...