Posted on: Wednesday, June 22, 2005
QUICK BITES
The plate that's perfect for bringing food home from the party
Advertiser Staff
'TAKE PLATE!'
The sturdy items — 9- and 10-inch plates and 24-ounce bowls — are disposable but they can stand up to microwaving and even manual washing and re-use. Everybody who walked by our desk stopped to check out the samples. The plates are available at Wal-Mart and some grocery stores in everyday packs and larger party packs.
FOOD NEWS
Chefs take advantage of tropical-fruit harvest
• Chuck Furuya of Vino is back from a California wine tour and doing tastings of some of his more interesting finds. E & O Trading Co. has introduced new menu items including nasi goreng (Indonesian fried rice), be thui (Vietnamese-style steak made with a coffee-based rub) and tandoori chicken. Blazin' Steaks, has opened a lunch wagon in front of the Marukai 99-Cent store off 'Auahi Street, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays.
You know how, every time you to go a party in the Islands, the minute you get up to go home, the host starts in with a chorus of "take plate, take plate"? Then you end up with some odd-shaped, foil-wrapped bundle that inevitably leaks onto the car upholstery? Well, has Hefty got a product for Hawai'i: Serve 'N Store plates and bowls with toothed rims that lock together.
• Big Island tropical-fruit farmer and expert Ken Love was in Honolulu Monday for "Hawaii's 1,000 Fruits," a seminar about tropical fruits and the University of Hawai'i's Twelve Trees Project in which growers and chefs are experimenting with a dozen tropical fruit varieties. Monday's free open seminar at Kapi'olani Community College was to introduce fruits to chefs and farmers.
