What Does Real Hawaiian Food Look Like?

A look at the native dishes rooted in the aina and passed down through generations.

Hawaiian cuisine isn’t about pineapple on pizza or tourist luau buffets. It is ancestral. It is what comes from the aina and feeds the people. These are the dishes that have kept the islands nourished for generations. If you have ever wanted to know what native Hawaiian food really looks like not just what ends up on postcards this post is your table set.

Here is a taste of the native dishes featured below:

• Laulau

• Kalua pig

• Lomi salmon

• Poi

• Squid luau

• Haupia

• Chicken long rice

• Pipikaula

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