Ono Grindz 808

Ono grinds,
made from scratch.

Real Hawaiʻi comfort food — plate lunch, potluck, and okazuya classics — written the way local families actually cook them. Free, always.

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The collection

What you like eat today?

6 recipes

Plate Lunch

1 recipe

Fish & Sea

2 recipes

Soups & Noodles

2 recipes

Snacks & Sides

3 recipes

Sweets & Baked

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Kitchen glossary

Broke da mout
The highest compliment food can receive. So delicious it 'broke the mouth.'
Chicken skin
Goosebumps. What good kanikapila music gives you — occasionally relevant to food stories.
Choke
A lot. 'Get choke mac salad at da potluck.'
Da kine
The all-purpose placeholder word. You know. Da kine.
Furikake
Japanese rice seasoning of nori, sesame, and salt. Lives on rice, popcorn, and Chex mix here.
Grinds / grindz
Food. 'Ono grinds' = delicious food. 'Let's go grind' = let's go eat.

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