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Migration is the primary reason for the heavy Asian influence on Hawaii's cuisine. Asian immigrants came to Hawaii from many different countries including Japan, China, Phillipines, Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. As these immigrants became a part of their new society, so did their cuisine become part of the Hawaiian culture. Today, there are over 28 Asian ethnic groups in Hawaii, and they have all contributed to what has become the new Hawaiian cuisine.
A jujube is a fleshy, dark red fruit that grows on old world trees of the genus ziziphus. It is also known as a red date or a Chinese date and is commonly used in traditional Chinese and Indian medicine, eaten as a snack, canned or used in tea.
If you are stuck in a dessert rut, a blood orange pudding could be the break from the Jello pudding cup or brownie blahs that you've been waiting for. Made from the intense almost raspberry-like sweetness of the blood orange, a baked blood orange pudding incorporates the zing of the blood orange into a egg-rich dessert with just a small amount of flour. Other takes on blood orange pudding use homemade soft pudding as the base and blood orange syrup as a topping, or candied blood oranges and blood orange caramel as the finish to a toffee pudding.
