lau lau with butterfish

[mikom]

where can i get pork lau lau with BUTTERFISH in,,,,,

OAHU

thanks ...\mn/

[Clinton]

You have to have some sort of fatty fish in lau lau being it be butterfish or salmon. I use salmon belly if I can find it or even salmon bones since cooking it a long time reduces the bones to soft calcium. Traditional lau lau consists of taro leaves (but I substitute canned spinach since taro or luau leaves are difficult to find), pork butt chunks, liquid smoke (since the traditional imu is stoked with keawe wood), and salt. I add beef chunks also to give it a meaty taste but that's me. Pressure cook it for 1 hour and you have mainland style lau lau.

[KaimukiMan]

you might try Yama's in Moililili

[Vegasbuff]

Do the places mentioned have a large piece of butterfish in them? The ones that I have had over the last couple of years that claim to have butterfish in them are only the size of a small Band Aid and almost not worth putting in.

[onocoffee]

Doesn't Costco Iwilei sell them in bulk?

Personally, I prefer Helena's on North School Street.

[cowfish]

Marukai (you'll need a membership).

[UES Mayor]

Halai's in the fishmarket at Ward center

[Debbie M]

Ono Hawaiian Foods, 726 Kapahulu Avenue, Honolulu.

[mikom]

deb,,,are you sure about butterfish at ono. i went there last year....i was impressed by the sheer amount of pork and size of the lau lau, BUT,,,,i also recall it as being very dry, and thus i don't recall anything other than the pork. i may be mistaken as it was a while back and just that once.

[Debbie M]

I had the opposite experience.. A lot of times lau lau can be dry, but, at least when I went this past June, I was impressed by how moist theirs was (as well as by the sheer amount of pork and it's size!). And butterfish was present.