I'm chef Jeff. Welcome to Chef on a Hog.
Today we're checking out food trucks in Hanalei.
Tell me some of your favorite items that you're diggin, that the locals really like.
Our most popular fried rice that we have is a bacon and egg fried rice. I get to
eat that? You get to eat that. And it is our thick-cut maple bacon, sautéed with a
variety of seasonal local vegetables, cooked down with our scrambled egg and
then it's topped with another sunny-side up egg. You win. We're really
proud of the fact that we do everything in-house and that dish in particular is
served with our house-made pork wontons. And for our dessert today we have an ube
ice cream sandwich. We serve it with our house-made salted caramel coconut sauce.
Truck yeah, this is Trucking Delicious for sure. Come check this out in Hanalei. Incredible.
You rule, Chloe, absolutely incredible.
So you open this with your family? Yes I did. We've been in the restaurant
business my whole life, I grew up in my parents restaurants, decided to come here
together and start it over again. We've got our Chop Lee Wrap, that's been a
fan favorite. It starts with our buttermilk ranch dressing, local Kaua‘i
greens, fresh tomato, green onion, boiled egg,
avocado, and our crispy chickpeas. We're topping that with our local Makaweli flank
steak. Local goodies, local ingredients. Yeah, all local ingredients.
We've got three great farms that we work with. Nola Poi Bowl which is local poi
that we thin out with a little bit of coconut milk, topped with homemade
granola with macadamia nuts, pineapple, coconut, and then seasonal fresh fruit.
and today we're working with pineapple, papaya, star apple, litchi,
banana. Incredible. We're happy to serve food that I grew up with. We're happy to
have you. For sure. Our specialty is the arepa. It's a cornmeal bun.
The King Kong Arepa, I open the pocket, we stuff with your choice of
meat, this one is chicken. We also have pork, we have fish, usually mahi mahi.
Shredded beef, we put beans, avocado salad, fried egg, your choice of cheese, my
favorites is feta, and the cilantro sauce. You gotta get the cilantro sauce and the
spicy is the best. We also have the Combo Plate, is like the traditional plate in
Venezuela, served with white rice, black beans, this one is made specifically with
mahi-mahi, but the National plate is with shredded beef. That makes me happy. You
never have something like that? Come down here, check this out, bring some napkins.
So how's about these boots? This morning I was on the farm with our
family harvesting in the fields, everything that we harvest is cooked and
brought fresh here served daily. Hanalei Taro Juice Company lunch wagon, it's a
value-added family recipe portion of our six generation family farm. So everything
that we harvest, family recipes are done fresh here, anything from the
traditional Hawaiian, to the vegan, vegetarian, all in unique taro dishes,
even dessert. Tell me about what I get to eat today. All about it, I'm excited. Today
you're gonna get to taste the Kalua Bowl, which is the traditional poi, then we
have the kalua, the pulled pork on top of that, and then to top it off we do the
tradition lomi lomi salmon. Look at this badness right here, that is
fantastic.
This taro just takes on the flavor of all this pork on here. It is just perfectly
done, incredible. This is awesome guys, this is a treat and a half in Hanalei.
Since 1983, Wishing Well Shave Ice. Tell me something special that sets your
truck apart. We make our flavors in-house, we filter our water, we make our own
blocks, and we shave our ice very fine, and of course we have our fresh local
produce. We really care, we want to have quality over quantity. The one I get to try
today is Tropical Bliss. Tell me about it. The Tropical Bliss is a mac nut
ice cream on the bottom, topped with coconut and lilikoi, seasonal tropical fruit, and toasted coconut flakes. and coconut cream. And on a hot day in
Hanalei it's exactly what the doctor ordered. It's insane, I have to stop myself
from getting one every day. Don't do it, don't stop. It looks incredible. Look at
that real raw coconut cream. Get on in.
Mmm, that's the magic.
And this one on a hot day in Hanalei, this is definitely the only way to go.
Come on down check this place out.
It's been a blast in Hanalei, now off to the next meal.