Is there a perfect plate lunch? Is there a way to find the most mac-salad, two-scoop rice with roast pork feast for under $5? Isle plate lunch
served a la ’NetIf there is, Richard K.C. Ching's "Home of the Plate Lunch Critique" Web site at http://www.pixi.com/~hiapp/ probably knows.
What started as a modest effort to rate lunch wagon offerings has grown into a lavish spread with pictures, guest comments and ratings for nearly 20 purveyors of curbside cuisine.
As Ching notes: "The classic pastime in Hawaii is eating the plate lunch."
To help you out, each review comes with a unique rating system: "Instead of stars we use a plate lunch staple - can SPAM," he said.
"Home on the Web" is a weekly Friday feature of the Star-Bulletin.
Richard Borreca can be reached by e-mail at rborreca@pixi.com