Buzz's Hawaiian Grill | Hawaiian Food & Culture

I'd love to give everyone a private tour of the islands taking you to all the places I have to visit when I'm home visiting family. Obviously this isn't possible, but I will try to document where I go. I must advise you some of the places are holes in the wall that only locals would know about. These are exactly the type spots tourist miss out on. That's the point of this piece, is to provide suggestions of places you should visit to get a better feel for local grindz. I often hear how others visit Hawai'i and don't experience the food scene I serve or speak of. Which is okay if you're okay with that experience, but for those wanting to experience Hawai'i in the eyes of an adventure consider some of the places I'll discuss below. Check each location hours before heading there. You've warned! Hawaiian Time is no joke. Island of Oahu Oahu is where I lived soo I know this island better than the others. Town When you live in the country we refer...

  Huli Huli Chicken is a Saturday morning tradition in Hawaii. Men's clubs around the islands set up shop in gas station parking lots, strip malls, and school parking lots. While you're out running weekend errands you'll see the smoke billowing ahead and know there is someone grilling Huli chickens. In my case, on Saturdays I was on my way to work driving along Kam Highway when I would be on the lookout for the smoke on the horizon. I'd stop and grab some Huli chicken for my work lunch. If I was lucky, there was a spot still open when I went home from work in the afternoon and I'd pick up another bird for dinner.   Huli Huli Chicken Saturdays are so popular the Barefoot Natives recorded a song known throughout the islands.  Click the link and sing along...It will make you want to get up and dance around the room.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66gqHe562Dw I n 1954,  Ernest Morgado   f ounded the Pacific Poultry Company. A  year later, using his mot...

If you want to understand Hawaiʻi's local food culture, there may be no better place to start than the plate lunch. The basic formula is wonderfully simple: usually two scoops of white rice, a scoop of macaroni salad and a generous serving of meat or another entrée. Order a mixed plate and you'll get two or more entrées. But what's sitting on that plate tells a much bigger story. A plate lunch might include Japanese-influenced chicken katsu, Korean-style kalbi ribs, teriyaki beef, Filipino-inspired dishes, Portuguese sausage or kalua pig. Somehow, surrounded by rice and mac salad, they all belong together. That's because the plate lunch is a product of Hawaiʻi's multicultural history. From Plantation Lunches to Local Food During the plantation era of Hawai'i's history, workers brought to the fields their leftovers from home for lunch. The vast majority of these workers were initially from China then Japan, Okinawa, Philippines, Korean. Their "brown ...