Maui- Plate Lunches The Comfort Food!

Visitors to Maui, or Hawaii in general you getting hungry? And you want to eat what we eat don't you? Well, let's just stay on Maui for a minute, there's a lot of places you can go to to eat simple kick ass ono (delicious) meals.

Noodles are a big thing in the islands, chow mein (Chinese), udon (Japanese), chow fun (Chinese), Pad Thai (Thai), Pancit (Filipino).

Pictured here from yelp.com is a plate of chow fun from Aloha Mixed Plate on Front Street in Lahaina. Google them, chow fun is definitely something we locals love to eat, and this place makes their own noodles, fresh from scratch! Can't get any better than that, and the prices here is reasonable.

Thanks to yelp.com for another picture, here is a meal, some soup, some BBQ sticks, and the large plate is Sam Sato's famous Dry Noodles. Sam Sato's has been around before I was born, and it is totally local, simple foods of Asian background, very tasty stuff, they're located in Wailuku, Maui in the Mill Yard. Google them if you want some local style this is where we go to grine or to eat.

Pancit noodles is like a Filipino version of chow mein, seasoned with herbs and spices, meats ranging from pork and chicken to beef and shrimp. The base season though is the fish sauce or patis. If you love Pad Thai, try pancit if you can. Paradise Market in Kahului, RVN in Lahaina.

In Hawaii Saimin noodles in a seafood broth with garnishes ranging from chopped scallions, fish cakes, ham, pork, beef, eggs just to name a few. This soup is not for an appetizer, some restaurants have small sizes that two can share. It is a meal in itself, if you had frozen saimin, or cup ramen, you'll love fresh saimin made to order, hot with the broth's aroma permeating through the air, it's a great meal on chilly nights, or after you and friends went out drinking the night before. Locals would get a bowl of saimin, with a cheeseburger on the side for breakfast. Or a whole plate lunch such as a hamburger steak plate with 2 scoops of rice with macaroni salad, imagine a whole plate of food and a bowl of saimin? Hungry locals don't fool around, they take their eating seriously.