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=Polynesian Food & Cooking= Hawaiian food: When visiting Hawaii, you will see many foods names and terms that may seem quite foreign to you. This is the fact that Hawaii is such a huge source of cultures from around the world, with influences from the Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Samoan, Thai, Vietnamese and others.  

The main dish that they are used to eating is called a Lau-Lau. As an aside, Cow-Cow means food in Hawaiian. A Lau-Lau is made from Butterfish wrapped in Luau Leaf which is then wrapped in a Ti leaf and then it's steamed. Of course people put other things inside like pork or chicken but the original is butterfish. When you get one you have to take the Ti leaves off as they are not edible and you are left with the rest. A skewer is mostly like food on a stick. It has Pinnapple, cherry tomatoes, chicken and bacon on it. It is very popular and it was always made by the polynesians. They love skewers. They eat them daily and sometimes at ceromonies. It is steamed and I think it looks good kind of.



You cut it open it will look like this in the bottom. Generally you need to add salt and if you can you should use Hawaiian salt.   ||
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Hawaiian salt is not as salty as table salt and it's got much larger grains and it's also red. The red come from Hawaiian dust. The next most common Hawaiian food I know of is called Kalua pig or Kalua pork. Kalua pig was originally made by taking a whole pig, cutting it open along the belly, taking out the guts and rubbing some salt along the inside. Then, taking some very hot stones from a fire, putting them inside the pig, closing it up and burying it in the ground for 4 hours. Above, this is pig. This is a food they eat daily.
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 * Pronounced “Hoo-moo-Hoo-moo-Noo-koo-Noo-koo-Ah-poo-Ah-ah,” this beautifully colored Hawaiian reef fish.** //Humuhumunukunukuapuaa// is the Hawaiian name for the triggerfish. Its color is cream, pink and tan with black bands. "Nuku" means 'small snout' and the //Humuhumunukunukuapuaa has a snout, a small snout. The hawaiians eat the fish but yet it is very popular. They used to eat it a lot but now they don't.// ||

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Lomi Salmon is the next item on the list. It's very similar to Mexican Ceviche. It's basically tomatoes, onions and salmon. It's a little on the salty side which brings up everybody's favorite Hawaiian food. Poi is made from mashing up Taro root. You could say it's kind of like mashed potatoes. It serves the same way as potatoes or rice.
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|| Poi is a traditional Hawaiian and Polynesian   food  made by  cooking , and then mashing the roots of taro. Water is added during the mashing. Poi looks somewhat like a white sweet potato in shape, although it is usually larger. Poi can be described as gray pudding. Think of rice porridge like cream of wheat. It's served cold or at room temp. Real Hawaiians eat it with their fingers but you can eat it with a spoon. Although many Hawaiians like it plain the best way to eat it is to eat a spoonful of lomi-salmon (which is salty) and then a spoonful of poi before you've swallowed the salmon.   ||
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The picture above is Hawaiian food as dried fish (or fish jerky). There are lots of kind of this too. Different fish, different spices... Chicken Long Rice: Chicken long rice is made with Chinese long rice noodles which are long noodles, longer than spaghetti, made from rice and when they are cooked then turn completely clear. Chicken long rice is chicken and those noodles and some spices like soy sauce. It's almost like a soup except that the noodles are so plentiful. Hawaiians often say "shoyu" instead of soy sauce. Shoyu is the Japanese word for soy sauce. Saimin: Basically the same as Top Ramen or Cup of Noodles. Spam Musubi: It is like ham, rice, and seaweed. Hawaiians love spam.

code Polynesian Desert 1/2 cup  milk 2 Table spoon of butter 2/3 cup of sugar 5 Table spoon of coconut syrup 1 cup of cake flower 1 Teaspoon of baking powder 4 egg whites 1/4 Teaspoon of cream of tartar
 * Ingredients:**

code Scald milk, butter, sugar and coconut syrup and put it together. Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Stir these ingredients into the milk mixture. Whip the egg whites until they are foamy, add cream of tartar and whip until they are stiff but not dry. Fold into the cake mixture. Bake in greased muffin tin at 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. Makes 12 medium sized cup cakes. Put Guava Frosting on top.
 * Procedure**

=Annotated Bibliography= Sabros. "Visual Recipes." __Visual Recipes__. 2008.  http://visualrecipes.com/recipe-details/recipe_id/335/Polynesian-Style-Pineapple-Chicken-Bacon-Skewers/ Christensen, Tricia. "Wise Geek." __Wise Geek__. 2003 - 2008. 2 Dec. 2008 . http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-humuhumunukunukuapuaa.htm