After touring the Pima Air and Space Museum (four hours of planes, planes and more planes) we were completely famished. We love Hawaiian food and, lo and behold, we found a quaint little restaurant called Lani’s Luau serving authentic food. We perused the menu for a few minutes and finally decided to split the Luau Plate. This plate consisted of Kalua style pulled pork, chicken long rice (chicken soup), laulau, lomilomi salmon, poke, 2 heaping scoops of white rice and a choice of either macaroni or salad garden. Laulau consists of pulled pork and salted butterfish wrapped in taro leaves, wrapped in ti leaves and then steamed.
I usually prefer mom and pop restaurants over the big chain restaurants. If you’re ever in Tucson, take a few extra minutes to find this fabulous little restaurant. You’ll be glad you did.
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