Keiko Agena: Hawaiian Plate Lunch

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Keiko Agena is best known for playing Rory's BFF, Lane, on Gilmore Girls, but when she's watching TV, she loves to snack on the couch while binging cooking competitions!

A Hawaii native, Keiko's comfort food is a classic plate lunch, so host Rachel Belle will dig into the history of loco moco and, a Hawaiian favorite, SPAM.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:24.5	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:28.2	A show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:31.7	Today on the program, actor Keiko Aguena.
0:35.8	Keiko is best known for playing Lane Kim on the Gilmore girls.
0:37.6	She was Roy Gilmore's best friend.
0:40.1	And now she has a new book out called No Mistakes,
0:42.3	a workbook for imperfect artists.
0:44.1	Keiko grew up in Hawaii,
0:45.7	specifically on Oahu.
0:49.7	So this will be Your Last Meal's first Hawaiian food episode.
0:50.7	Woo!
0:59.0	I feel like that deserves some applause and laughter. Please keep listening.
1:03.0	We are the annoying ones, but Kako talking about Hawaiian food is charming.
1:07.0	Spam.
1:08.0	Oh, I love spam.
1:09.0	Me too.
1:10.0	Spam is best. Spam gets a bad name, but you know, Spamosub is delicious.
1:13.8	No, I had a lot of that growing up too.
1:15.6	Obviously, we're going to learn the history of America's favorite canned, pre-cooked
1:19.5	lunch and meat product. That's actually what they call it on the website from Spam's
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