Ketching Up: Odds and Ends from the Past Couple of Weeks

No real "story" to these, just some recent food photos.

This is Hukilau's Poke Salad:  fresh ahi poke, butter lettuce, avocado, Maui onions, vine-ripened tomatoes, cucumber, lotus root chips, with ponzu vinaigrette.  ($13)  It's a nice, big lunch salad.  Poke was solid and went well with the butter lettuce.  Lotus root chips were interesting visually and gave a nice crunch to the salad.

Went into a Taco del Mar (Ala Moana) for the first time the other day.  It sounded like a cheap way to get a burrito plate ($7).  So this is the braised chicken burrito, wet,with black beans, salsa, sour cream, and guacamole.  The food is serviceable and there's a lot of it, but the whole fast food ambience is, well, kind of depressing. 

Finally, here's an interesting little sign for a "Loco Moco Don" in the window of Donburiya DonDon (Ala Moana Food Court).  It's funny to me because a loco moco is a hamburger patty with gravy over rice, with an egg on top.  "Don" (short for "donburi") is Japanese for a dish served over rice.  So a loco moco don should be . . . a hamburger patty with gravy over rice over more rice, all with an egg on top!  I'm totally going to have to try that!  Maybe after my next doctor appointment!


 

Hukilau
(downstairs from Executive Center, next to Long's Hotel Street.
1088 Bishop Street, LL13
Honolulu, HI 96813
(808) 523-3460    Fax: (808) 523-3462

Taco Del Mar
Ala Moana Center, street level, makai
1450 Ala Moana Blvd.
Honolulu, HI 96814
(808)942-1440

Donburiya DonDon
Ala Moana Center, Makai Food Court

1450 Ala Moana Blvd.
Honolulu, HI 96814
(808) 955-9517