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RE: New restaurants I'd like to see on the Big Island - JerryCarr - 08-12-2009
I keep wishing for real Texas pit barbecued beef. Barbecued pork is good, but beef is better.
RE: New restaurants I'd like to see on the Big Island - John S. Rabi - 08-12-2009
quote:You can get Wiener Schnitzel at Makali'i Cafe in Kona, they are open for dinner too now. I personally don't miss any of the chain restaurants mentioned, I would rather see a Mom & Pop kind Indian, Spanish, Greek, or basically any other kind of ethnic restaurant instead of these stupid "fusion" places.
Originally posted by Samdooby
...or Weinersnitchzel...
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RE: New restaurants I'd like to see on the Big Island - Carey - 08-12-2009
Jerry, Some of my older neighbors remember fondly the BBQ steakhouse in Keaau (others just mention the steakhouse...)
Have no idea how great it was, or even if it was a BBQ steakhouse, but the memories of these neighbors make it sound ono!
Hokulani's Steakhouse in Keaau has some variety at a fairly affordable price, maybe you could share the steak BBQ idea with the owners
RE: New restaurants I'd like to see on the Big Island - JerryCarr - 08-12-2009
Thanks for the suggestion, Carey.
As to Wienerschnitzel, the word in German means "Viennese Cutlet," a thin, breaded, and boneless deep-fried slice of beef usually served with potato salad and a berry jam. Very good. Der Wienerschnitzel is (was?) a fast-food chain that had everything imaginable in the way of hot dogs. I haven't seen one in years, though.
Cheers,
Jerry
RE: New restaurants I'd like to see on the Big Island - John S. Rabi - 08-12-2009
quote:Sorry Jerry, but the original and real Wiener Schnitzel is made of veal and served with a potato salad and lemon wedge. The potato salad is not the American kind but a German-style with sliced onions in a vinegar/water/sugar/salt mixture. Some restaurants use pork in a cost cutting measure but that shouldn't be called Wiener Schnitzel. Interestingly, when I was in Milan they claimed it was invented there and not in Vienna.
Originally posted by JerryCarr
As to Wienerschnitzel, the word in German means "Viennese Cutlet," a thin, breaded, and boneless deep-fried slice of beef usually served with potato salad and a berry jam.
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RE: New restaurants I'd like to see on the Big Island - kani-lehua - 08-12-2009
regarding the green papaya salad: the one at the maku'u market on sundays is the bomb! we saw this same lady down at the hilo market, but she was doing sewing/alterations. when asked if she owned the stall right behind her, she said no that it was a former employee of hers. she told us to go and try it. hers is way better.
we're still in search of good asian restaurants.
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RE: New restaurants I'd like to see on the Big Island - Obie - 08-12-2009
In the 70's when I lived in Kailua(the one on Oahu)there was a German Restaurant in Enchanted Lake Shopping Center.
Very good authentic German food.
Wish we had something like that !!!
RE: New restaurants I'd like to see on the Big Island - Greg - 08-12-2009
I fondly remember the "Lick-A-Chick" restaurant at Avalon Harbor, Catalina.
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RE: New restaurants I'd like to see on the Big Island - Kelena - 08-12-2009
I totally admit I had my nose in the air and initially bypassed the Green Papaya Salad lady at the Maku'u Farmer's Market (GPSL #2)because she didn't look like the Green Papaya Salad lady at the Hilo Farmer's Market (GPSL #1). I was also put off by the crowds around her. Generally, I think crowds lead you to bad places. There are exceptions.
I did eventually try GPSL #2. I have to admit it was fantastic. It was a different experience. I like them both. If they are two different people. I am not sure.
RE: New restaurants I'd like to see on the Big Island - missydog1 - 08-12-2009
Like John, I would like to see more ethnic restaurants. (if I could afford to eat out, which I can't at the moment)
In Berkeley my favorites were Italian, Indian, Thai, Mexican - in no particular order. Three of my favorite Italian places were regional - Il Porcellino was owned by brothers from Naples. La Sicialiano family style eating by Sicilians. And I loved Caffe Venezia which did more northern Italian food, including a lot of risotta.
Also among the numerous Indian, Thai (and Southeast Asian), and Chinese restaurants were regional specialty places.
I liked Mama Lan's Vietnamese food in North Berkeley, and Le Cheval near Jack London Square, Oakland, which I think was Cambodian but may have been Vietnamese.
There was a good Near Eastern food place on College Ave that was cheap and good, and I just love Indian food. My favorite spur of the moment midweek meal was probably affordable Mexican food.
I don't much like the all-in-one Chinese, Mexican, Italian places that have taken all the regional identity out of the food and turned it into generic spaghetti dinner or whatever.
I also loved Rick and Ann's Cafe, which served old fashioned American recipe comfort food - homemade style meat loaf, mac and cheese, pot pie, stew, apple pie, and so forth. It was always fun eating there although there was always a wait.
Not only was there so much choice, but I managed to eat out with my reading group once a week on a poor grad student budget. The food costs a lot more here.
Thanks a lot you guys, now I'm hungry for what I can't have!
To keep this Puna-related, I'm not sure how well any of those places would do here without the amount of population to support it.