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GEreat Food Awaits At The End Of This Rainbow
ver wonder how Hawaiian-style plate lunch. many plate lunches We are also excited to have Rainbow Drive-In Chris offer some insight into
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SHOYU CHICKEN
Ingredients:
• 5 pound bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs • 1 cup Aloha shoyu
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 1/2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 2 1/2 tablespoons Lea & Perrins
Worcestershire sauce
• 1 1/2 tablespoons garlic, minced
produces in one day? Cur- one of Rainbow Drive-In’s
rently, the Kapahulu loca- tion makes more than 1,000 plates daily, and I’m among those who order food from the restaurant a few times a week for sure.
most famous dishes. This week, it’s Shoyu Chicken, a classic in any plate lunch. It’s a scaled-down recipe created by one of the restaurant’s for- mer cooks, Sue.
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This week, Rainbow Drive-In CEO Chris Iwamura shares the restaurant’s story. It goes like this:
The late Seiju Ifuku, founder of Rainbow Drive- In, was born 1915. He was raised in Okinawa and moved to Hawai‘i, where he joined the U.S. Army and learned to cook. In 1961, in the midst of major econom- ic changes, he and his wife, Ayako Ifuku, took a chance and opened Rainbow Drive- In in Kapahulu. They served
50-cent chili and rice plates, $1 barbecue beef plates, 25- cent hamburgers and 14-cent fries. Their philosophy was to serve simple plates with generous portions, along with two scoops of rice and a side of macaroni salad, at
reasonable prices.
This continues to be the
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restaurant’s philosophy to- day and is one of the many reasons for its great success. Each day, locals and visitors dine at the restaurant for big, hearty meals — the classic,
• 1 ounce ginger, peeled and crushed • 3 tablespoons flour
• 3 tablespoons water
Directions:
Mix all of the sauce ingredients in a small bowl. Add the chicken to a large sauté pan over medium heat and pour in the sauce. Bring to
a boil.
Lower the heat and simmer for 45 minutes, skimming off any fat that rises. Bring to a boil again and add in the slurry. Lower the heat and let simmer for 10 minutes to thicken.
Remove from heat and arrange chicken in a deep serving platter, and cover with the remain- ing sauce. Serve over cabbage with white rice and macaroni salad.
Cooking time: 60 minutes.
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