MAUI Foods Locals Crave Chopped Steak with Onions

When vising 808 the state, and you love beef, find a local dig that has Chopped Steak with Onions, it is a simple dish, served at most diners, it is basically around 8 oz. of sliced flank, or other beef cut, and sauteed in oil, garlic, sometimes with ginger, and is cooked in a concoction of soy sauce, sugar, with onions. Diners vary on how they cook it, some digs will put in oyster sauce, or sesame seed oil, it varies. But the basic ingredients are the steak and onions.


Dousing it with ketchup and more soy sauce is common with the local crowd, and like all plate lunches it is served with the equivalent of 2 scoops of white sticky rice, and a scoop of rich macaroni salad.


So if you want to eat what locals eat, Chopped Steak and Onions is one option that can't go wrong unless the cook really  messes it up by over cooking the meat and onions. Remember, that Hawaii is made up of different ethnic groups, hence there is different influences of Chopped Steak, a Korean chef may make it Korean with the kalbi seasonings, the Japanese chef may turn it into an almost teriyaki style, an Italian chef may add in oregano, basil, garlic and tomato sauce. You get the drift.


You wanna be a true local in Hawaii, ask for chili pepper water, kim chi, and put some mayonnaise on your rice, locals love mayonnaise, ketchup, soy sauce, fish sauce, and just about anything that's rich.