One of the best places for poi on Kauai is the Hanalei Taro & Juice Co. food truck that parks on Kuhio Highway in Hanalei, in front of Kayak Kauai. There's ample seating next to the truck at which ...

Poi: Hawaii's Recipe For Revitalizing Island Culture : The Salt With only about 1,000 full-blooded Hawaiians left in the world, preserving native island culture is a huge challenge. One way to do ...

Even food-fearless Andrew Zimmern, star of the Travel Channel’s “Bizarre Foods,” didn’t care for poi when trying it for the first time. Learning to love the flavor, though, pays off. Poi ...

On the islands, poi is considered a sacred dish. advertisement. Daily Meal. ... Taro was then turned into poi, a sticky, sour, dough-like food that became integral to life on the islands.

The Poi Day tradition began about 30 years ago as a way to give Hawaiian families in the community access to their staple food. It has grown to turn an average 2,000 pounds of taro each week into ...

SEATTLE — Many cultures are connected by food and there’s one from Hawaii that represents the people more than any other: poi. Poi is made from the root of a Taro plant. Taro is called Kalo by ...

Kaloku Holt and his family left Honolulu for the Pacific Northwest on Sunday night. The family travels often with their one-and-a-half-year-old Brady, who has been to Europe and across the United ...

Recently, I pounded poi for the first time. I always wanted to learn how to do it and have been bugging Kealoha Domingo to show me how for the longest time. Finally, this weekend at ...

Food & Lifestyle • Small Business; ... Taylor, left, and Celeste Cline, owners of Poi Dog Deli in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Poi Dog Deli. By Mary Vorsino – Contributing writer. Apr 24, 2025.