MAUI Local Kine Chinese Food Won Ton Soup

Come to Maui and have Chinese influenced local kine grines. You see the Chinese has a huge influence here on the local food scene. When they came to Hawaii to work in the plantations, and to set up their own businesses, they brought with them their ways of cooking.


Steamed won tons (dumplings) filled with shrimp or pork, in a seafood broth, with Chinese cabbage, and at times depending on the dig you're in, will offer egg noodles with the soup. Or Won Ton Min. So actually the Japanese had a hand in this dish too.


How do you eat this? Locals will get a small ramekin and put some hot mustard in it and add soy sauce, mix it up and use it to dip the steamed Won Tons in, or like myself I just dump the mixture into the soup itself and make the whole bowl nice and hot. If there's Tabasco around I'll douse a few drops in there as well.


Remember Hawaii is a melting pot of a diverse ethnic bunch, and Asian foods is a big part of what we love to eat or grine.


Aloha
Ron