You hold it really close to you, and you open up that door to believing that you can make it. I took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la sha, la, la, la, la, la, la anthony hawaii is america, as american as anything could possibly be. Yet, it also never shed what was there before and the layers and layers that have come since. Its a wonderful, tricky, conflicted, mutant hell broth in what, for lack of a better word, youd have to call paradise. Paul nowheres paradise. Paradises dont exist. Paradise is, kind of, in your head. Anthony wait, wait a minute. You look out your window here and you look at those hills, those mountains, all that green, that blue sky, and gem clear sea. It, it sure looks like paradise to me. This guy knows, hes been everywhere. Hes paul theroux, novelist, essayist, and legendary traveler and
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portion-controlled cruise line entertainments, doled out in digestible bites and complimentary mai tais. but you ll also find the sort of beloved, indigenous institution like tasty crust, as local a place as you re likely to find. daniel ikaika ito will explain. what are we having? this is a menu situation, or i can order for you if you trust me. i think we re gonna hook you up with the local flavor. okay, i trust you. raised on the big island, he s a journalist, the first native hawaiian editor of a major surf publication, and founder of the local contrast magazine. local culture is very much still trying to point a finger at anybody coming in going, hey you re a haole, you don t belong. and, therein kinda lies a little conflict you have being a modern-day hawaiian. and i still think that s something that we forget about these days, is how educated and how accepting our kupuna, our ancestors, were.
lunch is this. a big scoop, or two, of white rice and potato mac salad. there is nothing more hawaiian. served alongside a protein like chicken katsu. or this hamburger steak, burger-like patty drowned in dark, sinister, sticky, shiny gravy. or furikake ahi, seared ahi with nori and sesame seed. daniel: oh my gosh, that looks beautiful. anthony: oh yeah, that s gonna work. oh. all right. i sit this right on top of the rice? daniel: yeah, yep. you want to get some mac salad too on there too. anthony: gonna get that sinister gravy on. oh, dude. look what we re eating. daniel: right, yeah. anthony: okay, they may not be hawaiian, but they are now. they are fundamentally local. i mean, this food, this most delicious, let s be honest, delicious. this is not healthy eating. daniel: yeah, and we re kind of paying the price for it right now in the health of the state, which is terrible.
daniel: local culture is, very much so, trying to point a finger at anybody coming in going, hey you re a haole, you don t belong. and therein kinda lies a little conflict you have being a modern-day hawaiian. and i still think that s something that we forget about these days is how educated and how accepting our kupuna, our ancesters, were. it was always built on inclusivity, aloha. anthony: mhmm. daniel: aloha is giving without expecting anything in return. you got this hawaiian culture that was a product of the polynesians that populated the islands. then you got this local culture that s a product of the plantation lifestyle. so the japanese, the chinese, the koreans, the filipinos, the portuguese. anthony: if indeed all history can be explained by what s on your plate, this is a prime example. behold the plate lunch. the most identifiable, and essential, feature of the plate