A Japanese New Years Dinner in Hawaii

One thing you gotta know about Hawaii if you've never been there: there's always tons of food. Forget weight watchers or Atkins. This isn't the place to count calories.

Take for example our New Years dinner--we had enough food to feed twice as many people as we had. My dad cooked up some steak and pork ribs while my uncle made the beef rolls, fish cakes, tempura, and Tyler Florence's ultimate roast chicken. My mom sliced up the yokan (Japanese red bean dessert) and arranged all of it on a platter. My dad also bought some sashimi, sushi and poke while I made a stop at Shirokiya and got a whole bunch of goodies... It was a feast, and we ate till we were stuffed... Then we ate again!

Japanese black beans and assorted pickled vegetables

Poke

Seaweed bundles and Japanese vegetables

Different types of sweet fish and shrimp

Japanese veggies

my uncle's beef rolls

yokan

pork ribs

steak

sweet potato and red bean cake

uncle's ultimate roast chicken

uncle's fish cakes

sweet potato and zucchini tempura