Post #380878 by The Gnomon on Sat, May 17, 2008 11:51 AM

I don't know if anyone else can relate to this, but after more than 40 years since I've enjoyed it in person, I can still taste it with a mere memory.

Beef Teriyaki on Rice from chuck wagon beach vendors.

There's a place between Diamond Head and Koko Head on the south shore of Oahu called Sandy Beach. It has a long shore break where lots of people used to body surf and ride their skim boards. It's nothing spectacular. The surf was usually brownish because of all the sand in each wave and occasionally it was full of kelp. But it was a really big beach where everyone would gather, lay out in the sun, then go in to cool off in the shore break. It had a pretty mean rip tide, too, because the waves would not break from a peak, but rather crash all at once. That would send floods up onto the beach that could only escape incoming sets by rushing to either side. If you got caught in one of those it was a helluva workout getting back.

After being drained of energy, coming out onto the beach and getting a Teriyaki Beef on Rice was a fantastic treat with your sinuses filled with ocean salt and sand. For me it was less of a surf flavor. It was more of a traditional beach flavor that you could take back to your blanket and then drift off under the sun and breeze with wonderful tiki thoughts.

Anyway, I will aways have to include Beach Beef Teryaki on Rice as a tiki food top contender.

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[ Edited by: The Gnomon 2008-05-17 11:55 ]