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‘To genuinely have an understanding of our culture, you gotta check out the food’

HONOLULU (KHON2) — From the creators of Chef’s Desk, the strike series Road Meals: United states premiered on Netflix on Tuesday. Viewers can get a taste of the very best bites from American streets and discover the heart and soul of the persons driving the food items. This is the third go-spherical for the demonstrate, which beforehand covered Asia and Latin America.

This time, the cameras transform to a 50 percent-dozen U.S. metropolitan areas, setting up with Los Angeles. They also take a look at dishes in Portland, New York Metropolis, New Orleans, Miami and the location where by you can locate the freshest poke and most effective lunch vans — Oahu, Hawaii.

Community radio/Tv personality Lanai Tabura co-hosted Episode 5 which explores Hawaii’s food stuff tradition.

“Hawaii is this sort of a one of a kind put. It’s the most secluded area in the planet when you appear at it on a map,” Tabura stated on the present. “You know, every person thinks of Hawaii as this good put for sunsets and beaches and browsing and hula — and Hawaii is all of that — but to definitely recognize our tradition, you gotta consider the food stuff.”

Tabura stated that Hawaii’s food stuff has generations and generations of culture and background.

Below are scenes from Oahu’s episode in Road Food: United states.

“Traditional Hawaiian food items has constantly been easy: fish and poi. And then when these different ethnicities came to work on the sugar plantations, the Chinese, the Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Portuguese, and they gave us various ingredients, and that really modified the landscape of the menu in Hawaii,” he claimed.

Tabura informed KHON2 that it was an awesome expertise for him, and that it was good to showcase Kapena and his daughter Kiani, as very well as her most effective mate Ku’u, dancing hula on the present.