Posted on: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Small-kid yummies? You tell us!
By Wanda A. Adams
Advertiser Food Editor
Spanish rice. Apple cobbler. Graham cracker pudding.
That's what I've found for you. Now it's your turn. Can anyone help with these?
• Baked lemon chicken, Ka'ahumanu Elementary School, 1970s and '80s, Elaine Chang. • Carol Hirai wants Safeway's tofu salad dressing. • Prune mui, Jefferson School, Jean Sato. And raisin li hing mui ("the kind you would suck on the paper cupcake liner so that you could get the last drop of sauce"), Jerry Lorenzo, St. Joseph's, Waipahu.
• Prune cake from Miss Ing, home-economics teacher at Kalakaua Intermediate 60 years ago, Carol Yamanoha and family.
• Blueberry muffins from Mrs. Texeira, home-economics teacher at Wai'anae High School in the 1970s, Carolyn Yamanoha and family. • Fried rice, Mrs. Kamimoto, Lihikai School, for Nobu Nakamoto. "As I recall, it was never served as part of the regular meal, but only as seconds, and not every day (which leads me to believe now that it was only made when they had leftover rice). ... Only kids who had clean plates could get seconds, which provided a very strong incentive for us to eat our veggies (and also made my friend Melanie, who really liked veggies, very popular on fried-rice days)."
• Korean-style garlic potato salad (as at Yummy's), Michele Chang. • The best-ever brown gravy, served at Nu'uanu YMCA in the 1960s and '70s, "so 'ono, the kids would have just rice and gravy," Don and Marian Leong. • Kamehameha Schools' "Haole Brownie" (or butterscotch brownie); also the peach cobbler with hard sauce, requested by many. • Double-crusted fresh pineapple-coconut pie, Waipahu High School, '60s," Ruby Sonomura. • Sweet and sour pork, Kaimuki High School, '80s, Khoi Fong. • "Biscuits like the ones that they used to sell at King's Bakery or the ones they used to sell at Woolworth's coffee shop in Kahala Mall," Colleen Tanaka. • The shoyu aku poke like they made at Bob's Fish Market, which closed last May at the Ward Farmer's market on 'Auahi, Susan Donald. "The poke has a distinctive flavor to it that I cannot pinpoint." • The greenish-yellow sauce used on the hamburgers at Andy's Drive Inn in Kailua, Char Dozier. Write to wadams@honoluluadvertiser.com or to The Advertiser, Taste Section, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802. And in conclusion, Butch Pekelo wrote to ask, "When was the last time anyone ate a pork-and-bean sandwich?" That's definitely a future column. Love to hear your pork-and-bean memories.
