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Tracey

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Dec 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/1/97
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Hi all!!

If there is someone in Hawaii (or who used to live there)
who could tell me two things about Loco Moco's, I would
greatly appreciate it! First, what kind of gravy is it
that they use? Is it just a regular brown gravy or some
special seasoning added? And is the hamburger part just
a plain hamburger, or some seasonings added there, too??

(For the curious, a Loco Moco is a 'fast food' type item
in Hawaii. It consists of a pile of rice, a hamburger <?>
on top of the rice, with brown gravy <?> poured over it,
and a medium fried egg thrown on top of it. Yeah, it sounds
kind of 'iffy', but boy, is it good!!)

Tracey


Tom Sakaishi

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Dec 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/2/97
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I've never actually lived in Hawaii, but the book Pupus to the Max
defines loco-moco as "Complete meal in one convenient package. Rice,
hamburger, and egg piled one on top of the other, with brown gravy on
top." It also includes the following recipe:

************************************************************************
LOCO-MOCO

1 lb. HAMBURGER
2 cups RICE, cooked
1 pkg. HAMBURGER GRAVY MIX
12 EGGS
DESIRED SEASONING: shoyu, ketchup, etc.

1. Make 4-6 hamburger patties and fry or broil.
2. Make gravy according to instructions on package.
3. Fry eggs sunnyside up or over easy.
4. Serve 2 scoops of rice on platter; place hamburger patty on rice
and 2 eggs over hamburger.
5. Pour gravy over everything and add desired seasoning.
6. Serve with desired side dish, e.g. kim chee.
************************************************************************

I don't know what "hamburger gravy mix" is, but I've tried this recipe
with regular brown gravy mix and it turned out plenty "ono." Hope this
helps.

Tom Sakaishi

hahna kang

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Dec 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/3/97
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Tracey <rbra...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> If there is someone in Hawaii (or who used to live there)
> who could tell me two things about Loco Moco's, I would
> greatly appreciate it! First, what kind of gravy is it
> that they use? Is it just a regular brown gravy or some
> special seasoning added? And is the hamburger part just
> a plain hamburger, or some seasonings added there, too??

hi there. youd never guess it, but i tried my first locomoco
at a dennys! yesh, they serve it at the sf japantown dennys
on geary blvd. weird, huh? they have this "local kine"
breakfast menu which features saimin, portuguese sausage
(apparently a hawaii fave), kimchi on the side, good old
sticky rice (short grain) and loco moco.

i swear, i have never seen any other dennys serve hawaiian
anything. and i really dont think i will ever see another
dennys which serves up kimchi. as a breakfast item at that.

so since then ive tried it at other places and you know, about
your question with the gravy, its just regular brown gravy
that you make from a package. you can get very fancy and
make it from beef stock (yes, yes, try it with demi-glace,
hehehehe :), but i know that the dennys one makes it from
package, because it tasted just as salty as the locomoco
gravy when i made it at home, which was schilling mushroom
beef gravy. :) hehe...

> (For the curious, a Loco Moco is a 'fast food' type item
> in Hawaii. It consists of a pile of rice, a hamburger <?>
> on top of the rice, with brown gravy <?> poured over it,
> and a medium fried egg thrown on top of it. Yeah, it sounds
> kind of 'iffy', but boy, is it good!!)

hmmmm. whats with the question marks? ill add comments, then.

yes, any hamburger patty will do. cook it up on a fry pan or
grill it for better taste. you can make your own hamburger
patty like this other restaurant i went to did. it was really,
really good there. i think they also must have made their gravy
from scratch, but i think thats crazy (muy loco!). seems to me
that locomoco is fast food (like you say). but hell, i adore
gourmet burgers, so whats so bad about gourmet locomoco, yeah?

brown gravy is just that, any kine brown gravy you make is good.
mushroom, onion, water down demi-glace, shilling seasonings, etc...

an with that egg, its gotta be sunny side up, sos you can poke
that yolk and have it kind of run over your rice!

hope this helps.

onolicious!

hoy, any kine loco moco now days, yeah? (*nods to naytan*)

hahna


Tracey

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Dec 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/3/97
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>hmmmm. whats with the question marks?

Well, since I wasn't sure it was a regular hamburger
patty and brown gravy, I kind of 'spoilered' it. Sounds
easy enough to make and I WILL be making it soon.

BTW, I do kind of miss going into a restaurant and being
able to order spam and eggs, spam saimin, etc. And being
able to get saimin from the McDonald's drive-thru always
made me giggle!!!

Mahalo!!
Tracey


Nancy Parsons

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Dec 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/3/97
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hahna kang wrote:
> an with that egg, its gotta be sunny side up, sos you can poke
> that yolk and have it kind of run over your rice!

ah god you make me plenty homesick, bra! :-)

Nancy

Carolina Rodriguez

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Dec 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/4/97
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I'm having a relly hard time with this thread. The words "loco moco" mean
"crazy snot/mucus" in Spanish.

Blech.

-Carolina
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hahna kang

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Dec 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/4/97
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Carolina Rodriguez <crod...@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>I'm having a relly hard time with this thread. The words "loco moco" mean
>"crazy snot/mucus" in Spanish.
>
>Blech.

wow. i had no idea thats what moco meant. you really can learn something
everyday.

anyhow, carolina, i think you ought to try this simple dish. heck,
everybody out to try it once!

:)

and you can christen a new name for spanish speakers, if you want. i
would love to hear it. perhaps "moco" (ive seen it spelled "moko") is a
hawaiian word...

hahna


Kate Connally

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Dec 5, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/5/97
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Carolina Rodriguez wrote:
>
> I'm having a relly hard time with this thread. The words "loco moco" mean
> "crazy snot/mucus" in Spanish.

So, you just *had* to share that with us, didn't
you Carolina. Thanks a bunch. I was looking forward
to try Loco Moco, but now I'm not so sure I would
be able to eat it.

Kate

Tracey

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Dec 15, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/15/97
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And thanks again for all the comments and advice about
the loco moco (thanks, Carolina, now *I* can't forget
it!!!) ingredients. I am planning on making it this
week since my 2yo daughter seems to be nutso for rice.
We bought a beefbowl at a local fast food restaurant
and she didn't leave our sides the whole time, saying
'Bite! Bite!' constantly.

Tracey


bruce bowser

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Mar 5, 2023, 2:01:41 PM3/5/23
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Loco moco reminds me of egg foo young without the bean sprouts, but add rice, a hamburger patty and brown gravy.

dsi1

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Mar 5, 2023, 4:50:32 PM3/5/23
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On Sunday, November 30, 1997 at 10:00:00 PM UTC-10, Tracey wrote:
> Hi all!!
> If there is someone in Hawaii (or who used to live there)
> who could tell me two things about Loco Moco's, I would
> greatly appreciate it! First, what kind of gravy is it
> that they use? Is it just a regular brown gravy or some
> special seasoning added? And is the hamburger part just
> a plain hamburger, or some seasonings added there, too??
> (For the curious, a Loco Moco is a 'fast food' type item
> in Hawaii. It consists of a pile of rice, a hamburger <?>
> on top of the rice, with brown gravy <?> poured over it,
> and a medium fried egg thrown on top of it. Yeah, it sounds
> kind of 'iffy', but boy, is it good!!)
> Tracey

Someone asks an interesting question in rfc - finally! You can make gravy from the pan drippings. Make a roux and deglaze the pan with water. You want to make a deep brown gravy, not a light one - dark Chinese soy sauce works well for this. The smart cooks will just get a big container of brown gravy mix from Costco or Sam's Club. As for the seasonings, just use salt and pepper - that's the Hawaiian way.

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Hank Rogers

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Mar 5, 2023, 5:04:17 PM3/5/23
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dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, November 30, 1997 at 10:00:00 PM UTC-10, Tracey wrote:
>> Hi all!!
>> If there is someone in Hawaii (or who used to live there)
>> who could tell me two things about Loco Moco's, I would
>> greatly appreciate it! First, what kind of gravy is it
>> that they use? Is it just a regular brown gravy or some
>> special seasoning added? And is the hamburger part just
>> a plain hamburger, or some seasonings added there, too??
>> (For the curious, a Loco Moco is a 'fast food' type item
>> in Hawaii. It consists of a pile of rice, a hamburger <?>
>> on top of the rice, with brown gravy <?> poured over it,
>> and a medium fried egg thrown on top of it. Yeah, it sounds
>> kind of 'iffy', but boy, is it good!!)
>> Tracey
>
> Someone asks an interesting question in rfc - finally!

Yep, 25 years ago Uncle Tojo.


Bruce

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Mar 5, 2023, 5:14:17 PM3/5/23
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On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 13:50:29 -0800 (PST), dsi1 <dsi...@hawaiiantel.net>
wrote:
<Jill>
How DARE you reply to such an old post! Troll alert! Troll alert!
</Jill>

dsi1

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Mar 5, 2023, 7:44:34 PM3/5/23
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Those were the days when people actually wanted to talk about food and not just faking an interest.

bruce bowser

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Mar 6, 2023, 8:17:32 AM3/6/23
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I don't know. This stuff comes up when I look up the food type. Then I just say what I think.

dsi1

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Mar 6, 2023, 2:02:20 PM3/6/23
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There's no problem with old posts. They have the same or more relevance as new posts. Well, new rfc posts anyway. I enjoy reading threads that don't contain signs of mental illness or emotional underdevelopment - posts that don't mention you-know-who or you-know-what.

dsi1

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Mar 6, 2023, 2:18:46 PM3/6/23
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On Wednesday, December 3, 1997 at 10:00:00 PM UTC-10, Carolina Rodriguez wrote:
> I'm having a relly hard time with this thread. The words "loco moco" mean
> "crazy snot/mucus" in Spanish.
> Blech.
> -Carolina
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> Carolina Rodriguez Instant human--just add sleep!
> Indiana University
> crod...@indiana.edu

Thanks for the info. Crazy mucus is pretty disgusting. OTOH, I don't believe that "moco" means anything in Hawaiian. It just rhymes with "loco." Some people say that "moco" means burger in Hawaiian. That's pretty goofy.
"Loco" doesn't mean anything in Hawaiian - it's probably just a well known word borrowed from the Spanish language. OTOH, "loco" might really be the pidgin pronunciation for "local." My guess is that we'll never really know the real origin story of loco moco.

bruce bowser

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Mar 8, 2023, 11:34:10 AM3/8/23
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I got it! Change "loco moco" to Hawaiian egg fu yung, then.

dsi1

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Mar 8, 2023, 12:03:31 PM3/8/23
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Oddly enough, I don't know what egg fu yung is nor have I ever had it. My guess is that it's eggs with gravy.

Cindy Hamilton

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Mar 8, 2023, 12:58:22 PM3/8/23
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It's an omelette that incorporates vegetables and/or meat, served with
a brown gravy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_foo_young

I get a nostalgic hankering for it every once in a while. It's been
a long time since I've had really good egg foo young. I don't think
their heart's in it anymore.

--
Cindy Hamilton

Dave Smith

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Mar 8, 2023, 1:03:27 PM3/8/23
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On 2023-03-08 12:03 p.m., dsi1 wrote:

>
> Oddly enough, I don't know what egg fu yung is nor have I ever had
> it. My guess is that it's eggs with gravy.

It's a standard on menus in Chinese restaurants around here. I have seen
it but it never appealed to me.

Bruce

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Mar 8, 2023, 1:49:38 PM3/8/23
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It used to be one of the most ordered dishes in Dutch
Chinese/Indonesian take-away restaurants. Called fu yung hai. Eggs,
mushrooms sweet and sour tomato sauce.
<https://www.receptengalerie.nl/plaatjes/plaatjes/reeks%20565.jpg>

Cindy Hamilton

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Mar 8, 2023, 1:51:49 PM3/8/23
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There probably aren't as many Americanized Chinese restaurants
where he is.

--
Cindy Hamilton

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bruce bowser

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Mar 11, 2023, 12:17:10 PM3/11/23
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Some folks just aren't fans of eggs, either. In any event, I remember in Hawai'i that there were tons and tons of restaurants of all nationalities.

dsi1

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Mar 11, 2023, 2:40:51 PM3/11/23
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What we don't have is many American style diner's in Hawaii - not in my town anyway. There's more of that style in Waikiki, I reckon. The last bastion of American food was Denny's. That's been closed for nearly 3 years. I miss that place. This morning I had some corned beef hash in a restaurant. There was some interesting things going on in the parking lot.

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Bruce

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Mar 11, 2023, 3:14:18 PM3/11/23
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 11:40:48 -0800 (PST), dsi1
<dsi...@hawaiiantel.net> wrote:

>On Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 7:17:10 AM UTC-10, bruce bowser wrote:
>> On Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 1:51:49 PM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> > On 2023-03-08, Dave Smith <adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> > > On 2023-03-08 12:03 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Oddly enough, I don't know what egg fu yung is nor have I ever had
>> > >> it. My guess is that it's eggs with gravy.
>> > >
>> > > It's a standard on menus in Chinese restaurants around here. I have seen
>> > > it but it never appealed to me.
>> >
>> > There probably aren't as many Americanized Chinese restaurants
>> > where he is.
>> Some folks just aren't fans of eggs, either. In any event, I remember in Hawai'i that there were tons and tons of restaurants of all nationalities.
>
>What we don't have is many American style diner's in Hawaii - not in my town anyway. There's more of that style in Waikiki, I reckon. The last bastion of American food was Denny's. That's been closed for nearly 3 years. I miss that place. This morning I had some corned beef hash in a restaurant. There was some interesting things going on in the parking lot.
>
>https://photos.app.goo.gl/bdNggqF9ytQLVxgE7

What's the thing under the egg? A slice of pig? A potato patty?

>https://photos.app.goo.gl/cqWV3ZuGgmkAMpAdA

Blue skies and palm trees. Are you sure you're not in Australia?

dsi1

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Mar 11, 2023, 5:59:31 PM3/11/23
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Cut me a break, man! I know all about Australia. This is Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk3s-vom2bY

Michael Trew

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Mar 11, 2023, 6:12:57 PM3/11/23
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On 3/11/2023 15:13, Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 11:40:48 -0800 (PST), dsi1 wrote:
>>
>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/bdNggqF9ytQLVxgE7
>
> What's the thing under the egg? A slice of pig? A potato patty?

Pig.

>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/cqWV3ZuGgmkAMpAdA

Ooh, I spot a '70 Chevelle on the right. I learned to drive a standard
in that car... that was an experience.

Bruce

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Mar 11, 2023, 6:13:04 PM3/11/23
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:59:27 -0800 (PST), dsi1
That's the countryside :)

Leonard Blaisdell

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Mar 13, 2023, 12:54:33 AM3/13/23
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On 2023-03-11, Bruce <Br...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:59:27 -0800 (PST), dsi1

>>Cut me a break, man! I know all about Australia. This is Australia.
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk3s-vom2bY

> That's the countryside :)


Jenny Agutter was a beauty back then. Now, she's showing some age.
David Gulpilil made a whole lot of movies after that one.
Have you viewed the movie yet? If not, stay indoors.

Bruce

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Mar 13, 2023, 1:25:10 AM3/13/23
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On 13 Mar 2023 04:54:26 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
No, I have it, but I still haven't seen it. I know it's a visually
well made movie :)
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