One of the best things I discovered during my Kauai residency was enjoying the local foods. I used to eat noodle soup when I lived in New York. I had lunch with a couple of co-workers at a "saimin" stand one day and my taste for this was altered to new heights.
You may wonder.. "What is saimin?". Well, it's noodles basically in really hot water but it's the wide variety of things that are added to it. I could get it with chopped spinach, kamaboko (Japanese fish cake), or Chinese roasted pork. Onions and/or scallions added to the flavor and the Saimin Special would come with a couple of sliced up hard boiled eggs.
One day I felt adventurous so I did like my buddies. In a little dish provided for this I mixed some Soy Sauce with some Chinese HOT Mustard. Pour that into the saimin and stir it around. I tell you.. that made my eyes water and cleared my sinus's like never before. Everyone in the place was silently laughing at me because this was my first time eating saimin with that hot mixture. I ate it that way ever since, too.
The place I went to was actually within short walking distance to where I lived . It was a restaurant called Humura's Saimin and it was on Kress Street in Lihue. I visited there several times a week and never once did I tire for the taste of this local treat. Should I return to the little Island Paradise of Kauai Humura's Saimin will be the first place I go to eat.
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