Mainly, we just hope you enjoy the dish ^_^ Mac salad with Loco Moco at Cafe 100 (Big Island). Since there are many different types of mac salad in the world, you can also call it Hawaii's mac salad, Hawaii-style mac salad, or even mac salad from Hawaii. I titled this post Hawaiian macaroni salad, not to further reinforce the name but in the hopes that people will discover this post and realize that Hawaiian macaroni salad is in fact, just mac salad! Mac salad is from Hawaii, but that doesn't automatically make it Hawaiian food. Outside of Hawaii, this dish is often called "Hawaiian macaroni salad." That is incorrect because this is a local dish and not a Hawaiian dish. Mac salad (with ginger-garlic salmon and rice) at Gochi Grill (Oahu). The staff adapted the potato turned mac salad for their own tastes.Īnd that's how we have local mac salad. They had the (primarily Asian) staff prepare potato salad for meals. But instead of coming from the plantation workers (who were mainly Asian), it came from the plantation managers and owners (who were mostly European). Other say mac salad came from the sugar and pineapple plantation.Then it got popular with home cooks (who replaced the potatoes with macaroni because it was more affordable). Those chefs got potato salad into the hotel kitchen and restaurant menus. Tourism is Hawaii's main industry, and many hotel chefs in early 1900s Hawaii were brought in from Europe.
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