A simple and tasty meal of tuna rice! Mix canned tuna with Kewpie mayonnaise (delicious Japanese mayo) and black pepper. Eat with rice ^_^ Tuna Rice Tuna Rice! This is a popular Hawaii dish. We ate it often as kids...and we still eat it a lot as adult (only now it's considered comfort food). It's …
Comforting and healthy side dish made of hijiki (seaweed), carrots, aburaage (fried tofu), and edamame. Enjoy hot or chilled ^_^ Hijiki Salad Have you had hijiki salad before? It's a popular Japanese side dish that you'll find all over Hawaii. It's sold at all the good bento shops and local okazuyas. It's also a popular …
Simple and healthy rice dish prepared directly in the rice cooker. Season rice with dashi and soy sauce. Then add hijiki and edamame. Enjoy! Edamame and Hijiki Rice From scallop rice to lap cheong rice, you know how much we love rice cooker recipes ^_^ Today's recipe is an easy and fun one that can …
Wontons are boiled and served hot with a drizzle of savory, spicy sesame sauce. Double up on the chili oil (or chili crisp) for extra flavor. Wontons With Sesame Sauce There are many ways to serve wontons and this is one of my favorites. It's a popular dish and you might have seen it on …
Classic recipe for simple pork wontons. Ground pork is seasoned with soy sauce, oyster sauce, and sesame oil. Add an egg to bind, and ginger, garlic, and green onions for more flavor. Mix and wrap. Boil and eat! Pork Wontons Hooray for pork wontons! Wonton fillings options are endless. There's pork and shrimp, pork and …
There are many ways to fold wontons, and this is our go-to style. It's simple and quick and also quite pretty. How To Fold Wontons There are endless ways to fold wontons. Each method has a different name and they are all quite fun. There's the nurse cap, the big purse, the ruffled purse, the …
This is our go-to dumpling dipping sauce. A basic dipping sauce can be made with just the soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sesame oil...but the addition of a few special ingredients make it extra onolicious! Dumpling Dipping Sauce Dumplings! We make dumplings often. We make dumplings in bulk and freeze them so that we have …
This comforting dish is both healthy and easy to put together. It's full of flavors from sweet daikon, ground pork, and shiitake mushrooms. We season with soy sauce and oyster sauce. Perfect with a bowl of rice. Braised Daikon, Pork, and Mushroom I love cooking with daikon and this dish is one of my favorite …
Fukuya is one of Hawaii's most popular okazuyas (old school delicatessens offering local and Japanese dishes). Here's everything you need to know before visiting. Fukuya Deli Fukuya is one of those beloved old school Hawaii gems (like Char Hung Sut, the Crack Seed Store, and Nisshodo Mochiya). They've been open since 1939! Fukuya is an …
Chinese Tea Eggs are an easy to prepare snack. Boil the eggs and simmer overnight in a savory marinade of tea and soy sauce. Eat and enjoy! Have you had Chinese Tea Eggs before? These eggs also go by a few other names: Tea Eggs Marbled Eggs Marbled Tea Eggs The eggs are boiled and …
Beef brisket, watercress, salt, and patience are the only things you'll need to make this classic local dish. Comforting and so onolicious! Eat with rice. Have you heard about Salt Beef Watercress Soup? It's a very local Hawaii dish and one of my favorite ways to cook beef brisket. This dish also goes by a …
A one-pot, rice cooker meal. Layer fresh scallops and rice together in the rice cooker, and cook! So simple. Flavorful and very delicious. This is a new-ish recipe I have quickly come to love. This year we got into "rice cooker" cooking, which is a fun and simple method of cooking. Layer the ingredients into …
