The food was just as great as I remembered and the prices were still low, especially for the amount of food you get!

We started with the Kalua Lumpia ($5.29) which is shredded pork wrapped in wonton skin and served with sweet and sour or chili pepper water. I had a combination entree with a chicken curry and their famous Lahaina fried chicken ($12.99), which is served with rice, macaroni salad, and ramen cabbage salad as well. My Mom always gets their Chicken Teriyaki Sandwich ($8.99) and my father, another creature of habit, gets their specialty fried rice ($7.79).

Their desserts are excellent as well and they have a bakery counter if you just want to walk in and purchase desserts and other Hawaiian specialities. They sell the Hawaiian juice I love in the cans which is nearly impossible to find most of the time. 

Apparently they have a newer Manhattan Beach location as well, which I have not been to, but heard the food is just as good as the original. 

Back Home in Lahaina
519 East Carson Street
Carson, CA 90745
(310) 835-4014
www.backhomeinlahaina.com

In keeping with our unintentional theme of one dish meals the last two nights, we opted to make a rice dish last night. We already had chicken and pork so we were on to beef or shrimp.  I love coconut rice and pineapple so we did a shrimp fried rice with pineapple.  It was super simple and filled with lots of flavor!  

Ingredients:

• 2 cups cooked Jasmine rice (cooled)
• 1 tbsp oil (I prefer to cook with olive)
• 1 clove minced garlic (we actually used 4)
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• Cooked shrimp, peeled and deveined (we used large shrimp w/tails – 6 each)
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 1 tbsp fish sauce
• 4 oz (or about 5 rings) of canned pineapple, chopped
• 2 green onions, chopped

Directions:

Have the Jasmine rice already prepared so it can cool and is easier to break apart.  I made coconut Jasmine rice for this (basically substituted coconut milk for part of the water when cooking it). 

Using a wok, heat the oil and add the minced garlic and chopped white onion. Cook until the onion has a shiny appearance – about 1-2 minutes. 

Add the cooked shrimp, rice, sugar, fish sauce and stir well.  After about 30 seconds, add the pineapple and green onion and continue stirring often for 2-3 minutes.  You want to make sure the rice is tender and the shrimp is thoroughly heated. 

Remove from heat and serve on big plates while still hot. 

Serves 2

Wine Pairing:   2

2003 Spätlese

Spätlese is basically a light late harvest wine so it is pretty sweet, but was a good match for this dish.