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cherish405 -> RE: AboveAll's Island Paradise (5/12/2005 12:29:33 AM)
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ORIGINAL: AboveAll
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ORIGINAL: randyclay
Oohhh, luau.
More food talk!!!!!
Kalua pig, lomi salmon, a'ama crab, poki, poi, lau lau and haupia for dessert. Yum [:D]
Maybe some musubi, huh? With the small red ume inside.....
And sashimi.
Teriyaki chicken with 2 scoops rice
Ok, I'll stop already [;)]
Ok I feel that I owe everyone a translation.
Kalua pig- Traditionally, a whole pig is roasted in an underground oven, shredded and salted. It has a nice smoky flavor. The quick and good way to make it is to stick it in a crockpot and add liquid smoke to it.
Lomi salmon- Like a relish- with smoked salmon, diced tomatoes, Maui onion, and salt. You have to use your hands to mix and "massage" the dish.
Poke (po-kay)- Usually a raw fish dish. Hawaiian style is tuna, seaweed, Hawaiian salt, maui onion, and a little kukui nut (chopped small). There are many variations. You can use any seafood you like really and it doesn't have to be raw.
Lau Lau- Usually pork, butterfish (you can use chicken instead of pork), a piece of fat from the pork (to prevent it from getting too dry), salt, wrapped with taro leaves and then wrapped in a tea leaf. You can't eat the tea leaf but the taro leaf is the best! It's like spinach but better!
Poi- Smashed taro. It's an acquired taste. Eaten as a starch or like a dessert by adding lots of sugar to it.
Haupia- Like a coconut custard. I don't like coconut so I don't know how it's made.
Musubi- A lightly salted rice ball with whatever you like inside of it. Like sushi but with no vinegar in it!
Ume- Pickled plum
Sashimi- raw fish, just sliced thin and eaten with soy sauce and wasabi (horseradish)
Teriyaki Chicken- You know what this is right?
Whew!
Trish, I'm just curious. What is Australian food like? Is it similar to English food?
Trishy, thanks for the explanation. I was just about to ask you what that all was.
Australia has a lot of the normal English foods, however you can get game like kangaroo, emu, crocodile on your menu. Personally I haven't tasted them, but some do. We get things like sushi here as well as a lot of other cultural foods. Australia is very multicultural. It sounds as though we don't have a lot of the foods that you have though. Either that, or we know them as other things.
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