Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Saimin

G and I discovered something awesome while in Hawaii: a local noodle soup called saimin. Here's how wikipedia describes it:

"It is a soup dish of soft wheat egg noodles served in hot dashi (stock from Japanese bonito fish or shrimp). Saimin noodles tend to crinkle when cooked, similarly to Japanese ramen (which is often incorrectly called saimin by locals). It is garnished with green onions, baby bok choy or Chinese cabbage, kamaboko (steamed fish cake), Char siu (Chinese barbecue pork), sliced luncheon meat (Spam is the most popular choice) or Portuguese sausage (linguiƧa), and nori (seaweed wafers), among other additions. Japanese pot stickers, called gyoza, as well as Chinese wonton, are usually added for special occasions."We ate it at a little place called Hamura's Saimin Stand. It was dark, our car had just been run over by a monster truck, and we were the only whities there. It was awesome.

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