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Posted on: Wednesday, April 14, 2004

QUICK BITES
L'Uraku unveils new tasting menu

By Wanda A. Adams
Advertiser Food Editor

FUKUI

Hiroshi Fukui has inaugurated a new dinner tasting menu at L'Uraku on Kapi'olani Boulevard, featuring an amuse-bouche (a little bite that teases the mouth), four courses and coffee for $38, or $52 with three glasses of paired wines. The Japan-raised Fukui offers a menu that's heavier on East than West but shows a deep understanding of ingredients from both sides of the Pacific. If you can't do the dinner, the four-course Weekender fixed-menu lunch on Saturdays and Sundays is a steal at $16.

The tasting menu includes agedashi of fresh mozzarella (deep-fried with grated daikon and ginger, ume puree and mirin soy broth) and a foie gras "sandwich" with roasted portabello mushrooms and truffled local microgreens. Choices for the main course include pan-seared ocean-raised moi with homemade pickled red cabbage in kabayaki butter sauce. Dessert choices include frozen yuzu mousse (yuzu is a tangy, tangerine-like Asian citrus) with raspberry "soup" and shiratami mochi balls or Hawaiian vanilla bean panna cotta with mango sorbet. Reservations: 955-0552.

Spam extravaganza coming to Waikiki

The Waikiki Improvement Association is hosting an only-in-Hawai'i event April 23 and 24 that might bring locals into Waikiki: It's the second annual Waikiki Spam Jam Street Festival, at which a team of children and community volunteers will attempt to build a musubi bigger than the 300-footer made at a recent Kaua'i County Fair.

There will be a surveyor on hand, and an application has been made to the Guinness Book of World Records. Spammy, the pork product's mascot, will oversee the festivities. Musubi-building is from noon to 1 p.m. April 23 at the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center. The festival, with entertainment, food booths, craft sales, a Spam-eating contest and a Spam scavenger hunt, is from 4 to 10 p.m. Free. Information: 545-4195.

Kalakaua Avenue will be closed from 4 to 10 p.m. April 24 for festival events.

Correction: A previous version of this column omitted some information about the spam festival.

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