What a funny name for such great food that anyone can make at home. The Loco Moco is simple: a fried hamburger patty on a bed of white rice, topped with an over-easy fried egg (or two) and covered with brown gravy. Sounds odd but don't knock it 'til you've tried it. It's good for any meal of the day, even that fourth meal one fastfood chain keeps pushing on us while ringing their darn bell.
The loco moco is an interesting cultural mix of foods that came together in that great cultural melting pot of Hawaii in 1949. It belongs to their great food tradition they call "Plate Lunch". Sort of like our Southern meat-and-three, it's a meat often with macaroni salad and two scoops of white rice as the sides. Hawaiian-style foods are comfort foods that have origins in Chinese, Hawaiian, Japanese, Filipino and Portuguese cultures as these peoples make up the majority living in Hawaii. Go to a McDonald's for breakfast in Hawaii and you can have Portuguese sausage or fried Spam with your eggs and rice on a breakfast platter. It sounds odd to us but is really tasty. There's a chain that started in Hawaii that I like that's rapidly expanding on the mainland called L&L Hawaiian Barbecue where many of us can now experience these flavors. Aloha!
L&L Hawaiian Barbecue Menu
i saw loco moco on man vs food! and im with you, it looks like a pretty tasty mound of food. im iffy on fried eggs but i think i can make an exception for this :)
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