Sunday, October 12, 2008

Seafood Festival

(Eat Local Challenge Day 12: what and why)

I can never resist taking pictures of opah, like this one on display at the Seafood Festival. Large, round, silver, and speckled...and apparently so cute a little girl kissed it right on its open mouth. Didn't see anyone doing that to the butaguchi, so named because of its pig lips (buta means pig in Japanese).

The poke with nine different types of seaweed was among our picnic lunch gathered from various food booths (Dean's Drive Inn, The Poke Stop, Tamashiro's). Winner of the "what did I just put in my mouth" award goes to ake, raw beef liver, from Fresh Catch. Not particularly pleasant, local or not.


At home, made a bowl of poi, smoked swordfish from the festival, and lomi tomatoes. Dessert: baked breadfruit with Maui sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

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