The plate lunch is a Hawaiian staple and this fast-food chain serves a wide variety at 200 locations. Choose a protein with rice and pasta salad.

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“What most people call Hawaiian food,” Felch-Malohifo’ou, explained, “is fusion.” Case in point: rice. Hawaiians ate only native taro root until the 1880s.

I often find myself explaining the difference between food from Hawai’i, and Hawaiian food. Here in Hawai’i we identify ourselves ethnically, rather than geographically.

Hawaiian food at the Hyatt Luau in Hawaii. (Mark Krynsky/Flickr Creative Commons ) () Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism.