Tuesday, March 4, 2008
# 14 Rice at Every Meal
One of the hardest things to keep off a Hawaiian's diet is rice. Rice at Breakfast, Rice for Lunch, Rice for Dinner. Only one thing finishes these phrases: Spam, Eggs and ________. Beef Stew with _____. Chili and _____. Shoyu chicken and _____. Loco Moco comes with _____. Only one thing taste better than mash potatoes and fried fish, Rice, of course. Imagine if 7-Eleven didn't sell products with rice, all that would be left is slurpees and water. Well, maybe not but a bento wouldn't be the same. Rice is the staple food of the Hawaiian islands. Every home has a rice cooker, and every child grows up learning to cook rice. We say cook rice but we don't really cook it, we just wash it. If asked to do so many Hawaiians wouldn't know how to cook rice on the stove. Well disciplined Hawaiians learn to cook rice very quickly at an early age. If not, then suffer the consequences of being called back into the house with the most embarrassing line a kid could hear from his/her parents, "Eh! Kimo! Git back in hea and cook rice befo' you go play outside!"
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Where did the Hawaiian's get rice from? The Japanese or Chinese? I LOVE my rice. Maybe I could go without rice for a day or two, if I'm eating pasta or other noodle but go without rice for a whole week, I don't think so! Rice is part of my life. If I ever had to go on the diet, rice would be the last thing I take out. Soda, chips, cookies, candies, gosh, even ice cream would go before MY rice! Honestly, the best thing to eat with eggs in the morning is RICE!
If Kimo was Japanese he wouldn't have been yelled at ... he would have known that it was an honor to cook the rice. HA HA HA! But where did the mashed potatoes and fried fish come from? Hey, are you part haole, too? This is what I LOVE about Hawaii ... we share so much, our languages, our cultures, our food, our ohana. (7-11 without rice?!? Ai-yah!)
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