No matter where in the country you go or place in general everyone around the world has their own take on what they eat for breakfast. Breakfast fills you up as a meal that gets you ready for the day ahead which in many cases was to work in agriculture or quickly in a ever growing city atmosphere. With taro (kalo), rice, and bread being the staple food starches in Hawaii there are a variety of dishes that are available and many takes on a authentic Hawaii breakfast menu. But as time went on there were saimin noodles, Hawaii pancakes, sweet bread, and cereal that became other popular options for breakfast as there were changing tastes of people who lived in Hawaii.
So, what do people in modern Hawaii eat for breakfast? When asking people on the street there were responses like: sausage with scrambled eggs and rice, fish with sweet bread and poi, spam musubis, a warm bowl of saimin, and another said a breakfast plate like loco moco. At home rice, bread, noodles, and poi were apart of the peoples meals. As many people become more busy for a desire to sleep in there are many who will grab a small bowl of left overs or not eat breakfast at all in growing number due to modern lifes demands. In the olden days people would eat breakfast with their family in the morning, but as people became more busy there had been a growing number of people eating out. As there were more roads built and more highways and more people the islands became quite busy and people would spend hours in traffic. This created a sort of rush in the morning for people to get ready for work, drop off their kids, and get through traffic all the while thinking of something to eat as they wake up or while they are on the road making their way to their workplace. The Hawaiian diet is one of the healthiest diets in the world with originally being simply fish and poi with some seaweed as a sort of example ideal. There are still people who include such dishes in their breakfasts more in the country side rather then large urban areas of Hawaii and it is those who eat traditionally that keep those practices alive. Lets look at some of the more common dishes eaten in the traditional hawaiian breakfast. Traditional Hawaiian Breakfast A Traditional Hawaiian Breakfast, pounded taro poi, grilled fish or grilled meat, limu seaweed with pickled onion and garlic, salted lomi i'a, and pipikaula which is a sort of dried meat. A traditional Hawaiian breakfast often times features taro because of its importance in dietary fiber for improved digestion and weight loss with high levels of vitamins while being accompanied by fish that has healthy omega-3 fatty acids or other health benefits. Some of fish eaten for breakfast are: Mahimahi Dolphin Fish, Kawakawa Mackeral Tuna, Akule Big Eye Scad, and 'Opelu Mackeral Scad. These days it is common to have the fish fried and salted, and while it isn't healthy it tastes even better when dipped into the poi. The Pickled Onions may not be what the ancient Hawaiians had eaten it has become apart of the traditional breakfast due to its preservative nature like salted meats, dried meats. Those who live near the sea or have the ocean closer to them tend to take care of seaweed and pickle the seaweed for preservation as well, so they eat that as well with the onions if it is available. The ingredients used in the traditional Hawaiian breakfast take a long time to prepare ingredients that have a long shelf life can take a lot of time that people who live closer to the city rather spend the same energy on something else, but luckily those who live in the country sides still eat these sorts of meals. Breakfast Plate Breakfast Plate, there are lots of locals who enjoy a big breakfast that comes in the form of a plate lunch in its plate form called a "breakfast plate". Breakfast plates come traditionally with two scoops of rice and when it comes to eating rice for breakfast it is commonly preferred as two scoops of fried rice. Along with the scoops of rice there are usually a sausage of some sorts that accompany them like: Portuguese Sausage, Vienna Sausage, Longanisa Sausage, Link Sausage, and often times this will be served with spam or bacon or even both which is sometimes called a "Deluxe Breakfast Plate". The Eggs also play an important role with being the symbol of a breakfast plate as it is common to the western breakfast it is equally as important to the Hawaii breakfast plate. Eggs were eaten for a long time from even the first westerns and probably even before then, but what really got people eating cooked eggs was from those who had them regularly available to them on the farm or near an egg farm. Eggs are eaten with the rice to give it a stronger savory type flavor and often times have shoyu on top of them for more saltiness that is typical of many Hawaii dishes. Variations are: poached egg, hard boiled egg, scrambled egg, overeasy egg, and sunnyside egg. The selection of meats and sides vary with the most common breakfast plate being Portuguese Sausage Eggs Rice accompanied with Spam. Other breakfast plates are: Link Sausage Bacon with over easy eggs and Fried Rice with luncheon meat, and people who want a hearty meal have fried garlic chicken that has scrambled egg and portuguese sausage along with bacon and fried rice. Loco Moco Hawaii cuisine is pretty laid back and high volume due to it being a quality of life sort of volume as a filling food and that also goes for breakfast. The Loco Moco is a pretty humble yet fatty dish that doesn't bring much attention to itself being brown gravy, a burger patty, and a egg, but if someone takes the time to look into this dish the amount of knowledge in this rarely talked about in detail dish goes farther then at first glance. Loco Moco that is a burger on top of rice that has gravy poured all over it and its topped with a sunnyside eggs and is a local favorite that is served all day long. With gravy being the standard sauce in Hawaii the flavor can vary and when its mixed with the egg and type of cooking style it changes once again and that doesn't even include the choice of meat to go with it. With different sorts of rice as well there are so many variations on this dish to try for breakfast or lunch and sometimes even as breakfast for dinner.
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