Seafood Plate Lunch is a Hawaii traditional plate lunch from Hawaii Cuisine that has its roots from those living off the ocean. A Standard seafood plate lunch consists of two scoops of rice, macaroni salad, and a seafood entree. A plate lunch with several entrees and additional sides is a "makai mixed plate". The word "makai" means toward the sea and "plate lunch" is a rice plate specializing in foods from the sea.
Seafood plate lunch was eaten by fisherman or by a few establishments that serve seafood, since the dishes are very delicious and provided by the ocean that surrounds the islands. In Hawaii a few of the favored fish choices tend to be: Mahimahi, Salmon, Ahi, and Onaga, depending on the season. Many of the seafood plate lunches are not exclusively seafood and are accompanied by poultry or red meats sliced thin and often times sauced, fried, or both. Popular Entrees that have a featured plate lunch are: Makai Mixed Plate (miso beef, tempura shrimp, furikake fish, and sashimi), Misoyaki Beef Plate (thin-sliced beef, green onion), Misoyaki Butterfish Plate (marinated), Loco Moco Plate with Kalima Mushroom Gravy (mushroom cream), Mahi Mahi with Cream Plate (egg dipped juhn, sauteed), Marinated Ahi Patties with Cream, Tempura Deluxe Plate, Makai Dipped Mochiko (teriyaki, chicken, vegetables), Steamed Fish Plate, Beef Luau Plate, Garlic Shrimp Plate (shrimp), Garlic Seafood Plate (shrimp, butterfish). The origins of the seafood plate lunch is not clear and is likely to have come from Japanese families that ate food from their catch after leaving the plantations or those who fished while living on the plantation. The seafood plate lunch would be a matter of survival rather than something eaten for leisure, until much later in the 60's when there were more places popping up. The popularization of the Seafood Plate Lunch is from long term establishment St. Louis Drive in along Waialae Avenue on Oahu with the creator of the deluxe Japanese plate (ref. makai mixed plate) Wayne Akimoto who led the way for other similarly presented mixed plates.
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