Aloha Mixed Plate @ Hawaii

Local food. What do hawaiians eat? What is considered local food? Aloha Mixed Plate considers itself an establishment that serves what the "locals eat." After one week in Maui, and this being my fourth trip, my opinion of "local food" is a mix of Chinese, Japanese and American. It's made fast, fresh, and it's a combination of meat, veggies, sauce and rice. It's enough food to provide these hawaiians energy for their 8-hour surf day.

Garlic French Fries
[with furikake seasoning]
tasty and quite interesting with the furikake seasoning which is japanese seasoning that contains a mixture of seaweed, toasted seasme seeds and sometimes bonito flakes

Cocnut Shrimp
completely packed with lots of coconut shreds and coconut flavor. i'm not a big fan of coconut, so it was too much for me, but this place is known for its coconut shrimp..so meh?


Loco Moco - mini plate
[rice, hamburger patty, fried egg and topped with gravy]
i've seen this item on so many menus, and i just had to try it once to see what the big deal is. i still don't know what the big deal is. it was ok...i do see the instant filling and energy though - rice and protein. i do love fried eggs on things though...so this dish has that going for it. this is a mini plate, and the regular plate has two hamburger patties and two fried eggs - TONS OF FOOD. btw, my mini plate was less than $5

Macaroni Salad
love love LOVE macaraoni salad from hawaii...it is the BEST.