The Loco Moco is a Hawaiian breakfast dish of a hamburger patty on rice topped with fried eggs and brown gravy. There are many substitutes for the hamburger, but there is no know low calorie version. Wikipedia says the Loco Moco originated in Hilo, Hawaii in 1949 at the request of some local boys who were after some quick cheap eats. Loco, Spanish for crazy, was a nickname of one of the boys, and moco was picked to rhyme.

In this case, my lunch at the Yum Yum Teriyaki and BBQ was the two-meat combo of kalbi with chicken katsu. You get to choose four side dishes with that. I chose shredded daikon (a giant mild radish) salad, kim chi (Korean spiced pickled cabbage), cucumbers with hot pepper, and macaroni salad. It is always served with rice; no need to specify that.

Dragon fruit is from a cactus that grows in tropical Central America, Hawaii, and Southeast Asia. It must be harvest time in October, because I recently encountered the fruit in a the Farmer’s Market in Kailua Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii.