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Loco moco is a Hawaiian dish consisting of white rice topped with a hamburger patty, fried egg, and brown gravy. It originated in 1949 when teenagers at a restaurant in Hilo, Hawaii requested an inexpensive meal that was different than a sandwich but could be quickly prepared. Variations include substituting the meat with bacon, ham, Spam, or seafood. The dish has been featured on several American food television shows.

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Loco moco is a Hawaiian dish consisting of white rice topped with a hamburger patty, fried egg, and brown gravy. It originated in 1949 when teenagers at a restaurant in Hilo, Hawaii requested an inexpensive meal that was different than a sandwich but could be quickly prepared. Variations include substituting the meat with bacon, ham, Spam, or seafood. The dish has been featured on several American food television shows.

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Loco moco

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Loco moco

A loco moco plate lunch, with soba noodles (left) and macaroni

salad (right)

Course Main course

Place of origin United States

Region or state Hawaiian cuisine

Associated national cuisine United States

Serving temperature Hot

Main ingredients White rice, topped with

a hamburger patty, a fried egg, and

brown gravy

  Cookbook: Loco moco

    Media: Loco moco


Hamburger loco moco at Aqua Cafe, Honolulu

Fish loco moco

Loco moco is a dish featured in contemporary Hawaiian cuisine. There are many


variations, but the traditional loco moco consists of white rice, topped with a hamburger,
a fried egg, and brown gravy. Variations may include bacon, ham, Spam, tofu, kalua
pork, Portuguese sausage, teriyaki beef, teriyaki chicken, mahi-mahi, shrimp, oysters,
and other meats.

Contents

 1History and origin


 2Popularity
 3See also
 4References
 5Further reading

History and origin[edit]


The dish was reportedly created at the Lincoln Grill restaurants in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1949
by its proprietors, Richard Inouye and his wife, Nancy, at the request of teenagers from
the Lincoln Wreckers Sports club seeking something that differed from a sandwich, was
inexpensive, and yet could be quickly prepared and served. They asked Nancy to put
some rice in a bowl, a hamburger patty over the rice, and then top it with brown gravy.
The egg came later. The teenagers named the dish Loco Moco after one of their
members, George Okimoto, whose nickname was "Crazy". George Takahashi, who was
studying Spanish at Hilo High School, suggested using Loco, which is Spanish for
crazy. They tacked on "moco" which "rhymed with loco and sounded good". [1][2][3] To
Spanish-speakers, however, the name can sound very odd, given that they hear it as
"crazy snot" (moco is Spanish for "mucus").[4]

Popularity[edit]
This dish was featured on the "Taste of Hawai'i" episode of Girl Meets Hawai'i, a Travel
Channel show hosted by Samantha Brown. The episode features the dish being served
at the popular restaurant, Hawaiian Style Cafe, in Waimea together with the plate lunch,
another Hawaiian specialty dish.
The loco moco was also featured on a Honolulu-based episode of the Travel Channel
show Man v. Food (this episode aired in the show's second season). The host, Adam
Richman, tried the dish at the Hukilau Café, located in nearby Laie. Richman also tried
an off-the-menu loco moco at a San Francisco eatery called Namu Gaji on his 2014
show, Man Finds Food. In 2018, on a different episode of the revived Man v. Food, host
Casey Webb tried a loaded version of the loco moco at Da Kitchen in Maui.

See also[edit]
 Hawaii portal

 Food portal

 Silog
 Garbage Plate
 List of Hawaiian dishes
 List of regional dishes of the United States
 Nasi ambeng
 Okonomiyaki

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