Orite I'm back in the saddle, just got into the office, so we left off talking about what locals love to eat here in Hawaii. Here is what plate lunches consist of most of the time, the standard is 2 scoops of white rice, but as the healthy eating movement moves forward, digs are more than likely to offer their customers brown rice instead, and of course macaroni salad, and the entree which is usually a beef, pork, chicken or seafood item. Now if you see on the menu "Combination Plate", or "Mixed Plate", it simply means that you can add one or two more entrees to that plate.
Example: You're at some plate lunch dig, and you see the menu like this.
Plates 6.95 Combination Plates 8.59 (2 entrees) 10.99 (3 entrees)
Shoyu Chicken
Roast Pork
Kau Yuk
Chow Fun
Kalbi Ribs
Chopped Steak
Loco Moco
Hamburger Steak
Breaded Mahi Mahi
Miso Ahi.
Let's say you want to mix up some of these entrees, you decide you want a combination plate of Kalbi Ribs and Miso Ahi. You would ask for it like this, "Can I have the combination plate with Kabli and Miso Ahi?"
If you just ordered Miso Ahi, you'd probably get 2 4 oz. of ahi filets with a miso dressing, plus the rice and mac salad. If you just ordered the Kabli ribs, you'd probably get 3 strips of short ribs.
Now with the combination, you'd get one miso ahi, and two strips of ribs, depending on the dig you're at, some places are really generous, they'll nail 2 fish and 3 ribs on your plate, if you look at the way they mark up their food, sometimes you wonder about the logic. But that's the animal you'll deal with when visiting a plate lunch dig. Some places will kinda of seem like their ripping you off, while some places seem like their losing money giving you a lot of food.
Oh well, that's the nature of business, the pricing sometimes don't make sense, but when we are hungry who cares?
Example: You're at some plate lunch dig, and you see the menu like this.
Plates 6.95 Combination Plates 8.59 (2 entrees) 10.99 (3 entrees)
Shoyu Chicken
Roast Pork
Kau Yuk
Chow Fun
Kalbi Ribs
Chopped Steak
Loco Moco
Hamburger Steak
Breaded Mahi Mahi
Miso Ahi.
Let's say you want to mix up some of these entrees, you decide you want a combination plate of Kalbi Ribs and Miso Ahi. You would ask for it like this, "Can I have the combination plate with Kabli and Miso Ahi?"
If you just ordered Miso Ahi, you'd probably get 2 4 oz. of ahi filets with a miso dressing, plus the rice and mac salad. If you just ordered the Kabli ribs, you'd probably get 3 strips of short ribs.
Now with the combination, you'd get one miso ahi, and two strips of ribs, depending on the dig you're at, some places are really generous, they'll nail 2 fish and 3 ribs on your plate, if you look at the way they mark up their food, sometimes you wonder about the logic. But that's the animal you'll deal with when visiting a plate lunch dig. Some places will kinda of seem like their ripping you off, while some places seem like their losing money giving you a lot of food.
Oh well, that's the nature of business, the pricing sometimes don't make sense, but when we are hungry who cares?
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