The Honolulu table — what to order and where the locals point.
Poke, properly
Shoyu ahi by the pound from fish counters — the gas-station poke myth is real.
Plate lunch
Two scoops rice, mac salad, kalua pig — Hawai'i's working lunch, everywhere.
Malasadas
Portuguese doughnuts, sugar-hot — Leonard's has fried them since 1952.
Garlic shrimp trucks
Kahuku's North Shore trucks drown scampi in garlic butter — worth the drive alone.
Shave ice, rainbow
Fine as snow, syrup-soaked, ideally with mochi and condensed milk.