Kiki Aranita

Kiki Aranita and Chris Vacca own and operate Poi Dog, a food truck and restaurant in Philadelphia. Their food draws heavily from Filipino, Japanese, Okinawan, Chinese and Portuguese cuisines as they reinterpret what is called the "local food" of Hawaii, a product of the laborers who migrated to the islands to work on sugar plantations. Kiki and Chris often travel in the food truck off-season to the source cultures of "local food," cooking with and learning from street vendors. They frequently teach cooking classes and have run a month-long pop-up restaurant in Honolulu, where Kiki was partly raised.

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A vintage cookbook leads Kiki Aranita to a lost world of Chinese-Hawaiian food

BOOKSKiki Aranitabooks, cookbooks, book review, history, China, United States, Pensylvania, Hawaii, Philadelphia, Honolulu, Oahu, Chinese food on Oahu, Chinese food in Hawaii, Hawaiian-Chinese food, The Gourmet's Encyclopedia of Chinese-Hawaiian Cooking, Alyce and Theodore Char, Alyce Char, Theodore Char, Poi Dog, Waikiki, Chinese-Hawaiian food, canned food, preserved food, Tahiti, fusion, poi, mushrooms, canned mushrooms, pipi kaula, kumquats, corn, The Illustrated Wok chefs
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