Friday, March 18, 2005

St. Patrick's Day, local style

We had the world's first corned beef musubi eating contest at the L&L Drive-In in Kahala Mall. Predictably, a heavy guy won it. He got a free trip to Las Vegas.

Musubi is a popular local food, available in every gas station mini-mart. Fermented rice wrapped in dried seaweed with a plum inside, with some type of meat on top-- Usually, it's Spam. In honor of St. Patrick's Day yesterday, it was corned beef. And the rice was dyed green with hana ebi powdered shrimp.

Corned Beef Musubi

Photo courtesy of the Honolulu Advertiser.

Top o' the morning to ye!