Plate lunch

Plate lunch

Plate Lunch (Hawaiian: "pa mea 'ai") is a syncretic menu item that is part of local cuisine of Hawaii. The standard plate lunch consists of two scoops of white rice, a scoop of macaroni salad (taken by an ice cream scooper), and a meat entree. Many plate lunch outlets also sell "mini-plates" which come with the same food items in smaller portions. Various meat choices are typically available, and they include a wide range of Asian and American dishes. Some dishes come from as far as Puerto Rico or Portugal.

A Hawaiian plate lunch is roughly equivalent to a Southern US meat-and-threes plate, though the inclusion of pan-Asian ingredients sets it apart. Still, plate lunches can and do feature foods as familiar as a "loco moco" or chili and beans.

Popular items

*American: "Hamburger and Beef Stew"
*Chinese: "Lemon Chicken and Char Siu Pork"
*Filipino: "Chicken Adobo and Longanisa"
*Hawaiian: "Lau lau and Kalua Pork"
*Japanese: "Chicken Katsu" and "Beef Teriyaki"
*Korean: "Galbi short-ribs and Beef Jun"
*Items from other culinary backgrounds: "Portuguese sausage, Curry"


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External links

* [http://www.hawaiianplatelunch.com/ History of the Hawaiian Plate Lunch]
* [http://www.pixi.com/~hiapp/index.html The Plate Lunch Critique]
* [http://alohaworld.com/platelunch/ Southern California Plate Lunch Connection]
* [http://khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=1030393 Origins of the plate lunch] story from KHNL
* [http://www.janm.org/mediaarts/projects/lunch.html Politics of the Plate Lunch] , 1997 exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum


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