Still yearning for
long-lost recipes

Last year, as a result of New Year's pleas, I finally tracked down a long-elusive recipe for toong-mai, Chinese puffed-rice cake, as well as one for homemade arare.

This year my top priorities are recipes from the old Tahitian Lanai: Moa Ta Haari, a chicken-curry-coconut dish; the breakfast mahi mahi, served with eggs; and the Eggs Benedict with hollandaise sauce.

To the helpful reader who called and said she'd found the hollandaise recipe: Your fax never came. Please call back. I promise to write down your name this time.

To anyone else with a line on these oft-requested recipes or on a Tahitian Lanai chef, please write or e-mail (addresses are printed below). Any contributor of a recipe that successfully tests out will be awarded a new cookbook from our extensive collection.

Please do NOT send any recipes for the Tahitian Lanai banana muffins. That's the one recipe that seems to be in wide circulation.

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