Honolulu, Hawaii

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2008

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week it's a special one-hour program recorded in Hawaii. Aloha! This week we're bringing you a special one-hour program recorded in Hawaii. It's a look at the food and culture of Honolulu and its island of Oahu that few tourists see. You won't want to miss this show.

Famed chef Alan Wong gets us started with a short history lesson, laying out the role immigrants played in the origins of island foods. Then we're off on a whirlwind tour around the island of Oahu, sharing ideas for where to eat and where to shop along the way. We'll talk the local food revolution with farmer Dean Okimoto, visit the Honolulu Fish Auction, tour Chinatown with Joan Namkoong, author of Food Lover's Guide to Honolulu, and stop for shrimp and shave ice on Oahu's north shore.

Keona Mark tells how a native organization is taking taro beyond the infamous poi, and we'll eat from high to low. Along the way we gathered recipes to share, including Hamakua Springs Tomato, Beet and Avocado Salad from the legendary Alan Wong's Restaurant, and a Korean Marinade from Yummy Korean Barbecue in Honolulu's Makai Market.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

February 17, 2007 (originally aired)
April 19, 2008 (rebroadcast)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:08.1	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:24.4	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:29.9	Support for the Splendid Table Podcasts provided by the Muir Glen Organic Soup Collection,
0:35.2	gourmet recipe soups made from premium garden fresh ingredients online at Muirglen.com.
0:45.2	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
0:51.5	Our program is produced by American Public Media and brought to you by Super Target.
0:56.3	Today, it's a show given over to one of America's great unsung food towns. We're taking
1:01.7	you to Honolulu and it's Island of Oahu for the food and the culture few tourists get into.
1:08.8	Let's start where things began for us with award-winning chef Alan Wong.
1:13.6	Alan is Hawaiian restaurant nobility. Locals go to Alan Wong's restaurant for brilliant riffs on
1:21.8	island dishes that everybody grew up with. There's lots of inside jokes on his plates,
1:27.0	but even if he don't get the punchline,
1:29.1	you eat like nowhere else in the world. Behind his playfulness is a deep sense of heritage.
1:35.5	He's been digging into the origins of Hawaii's foods, and with the layers of ethnicity
1:41.3	on this island, he felt doing some historical research would
1:45.3	help him better communicate with his staff about where his food comes from.
1:49.7	I mean, how does one go about explaining a palate?
1:52.7	Alan says, look at the past.
1:57.6	We took the crew down to a place in Waipahu is next to a sugar mill.
2:01.6	White Paohu would be in between here, Honolulu, and the north shore.
2:06.2	It's called a Hawaii plantation village.
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