Hawaii Rice Fest

Yesterday, I checked out the “1st Annual Hawaii Rice Fest” at the Aloha Tower Marketplace. Here’s the website: http://www.ricefest.com/. Proceeds of the festival benefited the Lanakila Meals of Wheels program described here: http://www.lanakilapacific.org/more-than-a-meal.asp.

I think events like these are best described through pictures. So here we go.

Hawaii Rice Fest

For each donation, the donor received a pair of red chopsticks, cool.

Lanakila Meals on Wheels Booth

Chopsticks for a Cause

This vendor was introducing a polished brown rice to Hawaii. Their process involves polishing the wax off of a grain of rice without damaging the bran or germ of the grain. According to the vendor, other processes do not completely remove the wax.

Global Industries Corporation

According to their flyers, their brown rice is accepted by sushi chefs.

Brown Rice Ball Samples

Too bad they didn’t stick in a tiny bit of ume, it would have been perfect (just kidding).

Other booths.

Arturo's Booth

Sauces and Salsas

More Sauces and Salsas

Hawaiian Kine Booth

Fried Rice with Kamaboko and Hawaiian Kine Products

Pelekunu's Teri Sauces Booth

Fire and Meat, What Could Be Better?

Primo Sushi Booth

Kat's Sushi Booth

Kat's Sushi Bar

Kat’s Sushi offers a mobile sushi bar for parties, hmmm, the possibilities.

Don Ho's Island Grill, Smile!

Pacific Soul Patrol Food Truck

The guy in orange is Sean Priester, former executive chef of the Top of Waikiki. I’ve eaten from his food truck a couple of times, they make a killer vegetarian chili, their fried chicken, wow, and their cornbread is one of the best (in my opinion). http://pacificsoulhawaii.com/.

Pacific Soul Patrol Food

Got To Have Leonard's 🙂

What festival would be complete without royalty? This is the Narcissus Queen and Court. They were helping in the kiddie area.

Narcissus Queen and Court

I went too early so I missed the cooking and recipe contests. There’s always next year. 😉

All for a good cause.

The Mouse