"Loco Moco..."chopsticks or fork..?" 'Obama Da Dog'

Obama da dog blogs about her favorite plate lunch, da loco moco...

Loco Moco, Hawaii's favorite plate lunch! This photo was shared through Google chrome.

This blog also appeared as an opinion article in the Kaua'i Garden Island news on 10-15-11. http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_98db46b2-f6f5-11e0-8c35-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=story

Hawaii is  famous for their plate lunches. Plate lunches are served at many restaurants and food trucks. Plate lunches usually come with rice, or chow mein, macaroni salad, kimchi, or green salad and a Sumo wrestler portion of an array of entrees inclusive of but not limited to shoyu chicken,  shoyu pork, curried stews, steak and hundreds of other mouth watering entrees.

One of the most popular comfort plate lunches in Hawaii  is a dish called a 'Loco Moco.' Loco moco  is a "mountainous meal consisting of a heap of white rice topped with  one or two  hamburger patties and topped with one or two sunny-side-up eggs, and then smothered in gravy. This dish is popular anytime of the day and is a candidate for the Cholesterol Hall of Fame.  As you eat, break the egg - then blend the burger, egg, rice, and gravy on your fork or chopsticks for each bite for a real taste of paradise."

There are many  who claim to have invented the  Loco Moco, however  it is generally agreed that around 1949, either the Lincoln Grill or the Cafe 100 (both in Hilo, Hawaii) created the first mouth watering plate dish of Loco Moco. According to the locals, the dish was invented for teenagers who wanted something different from typical American sandwiches and less time-consuming than Asian food. The nickname of the first boy to consume this concoction was Loco ("crazy" in Portuguese and Hawaiian pidgin). Moco rhymed with loco and sounded great,Therefore history was made  and  'Loco Moco' became the name of the dish.

'Loco Moco' is also famous for takeout along with many other scrumptious plate lunch choices. With all this said I still find it ironic that every-time I go to order a plate lunch to go, the servers give me a fork and my Asian friends chopsticks just because of my looks. This used to bother me because I am an  avid user of chopsticks and believe food tastes better against  wooden chopsticks than a plastic fork. Normally I would correct the server and ask for chopsticks, however when 'Loco Moco' is concerned  a fork, spoon and preferably a shovel would be most practical....

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