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Event Wrap-Up: The Luau

cathy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:21:48 +0000

We threw our second collaboration with BKLYN Yard and Finger on the Pulse last Friday, and for it, we roasted two suckling pigs (and lots of pork butt) for the first time! Thanks to everyone who attended, ate, helped out, wrote about it (like these blogs), took photos (like Nicky Digital), and put on leis, all in the rain! More photos at our Flickr photostream, and here are some highlights below.

(What’s on the plate, above: roast pork with coconut adobo sauce, black sesame, purple basil and seaweed-studded rice, heirloom pepper and cherry tomato macaroni salad, apple, kohlrabi and carrot slaw, and some cabbage and red pepper kimchee. Not shown: grilled eggplant loco moco vegetarian option. All vegetables from Garden of Eve organic farm. Pasture-raised pork from Tamarack Hollow Farm. Sixpoint provided beer for dinner.)

photo: Josh Wand

photo: Jesse Chan-Norris

photo: Joe DiStefano

Now that we can cross “hosting whole pig roast” off of our list of life goals, we’ll be taking a short break before announcing the next seasonal dinner event. Aloha!

The Luau Menu!

cathy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:59:27 +0000

This little piggy went to the market, this little piggy… got stuffed into our fridges and soon, a La Caja China to roast at BKLYN Yard!

It’s almost here, the Hapa Kitchen Luau, with the fabulous Finger on the Pulse DJs. With Brooklyn’s own Sixpoint Craft Ales, local organic vegetables from Garden of Eve Farm, and pasture-raised pork from Tamarack Hollow Farm.

Roast Suckling Pig Adobo

Eggplant Loco Moco
vegetarian/vegan option (no egg)

sides:
Pepper Mac Salad
sungold and cherry tomatoes, sweet hungarian peppers, italian frying peppers

Kahuna Kohlrabi, Apple & Carrot Slaw
purple basil, sesame

Frankie & Annette’s Kimchee
(all courses subject to change)

$10 gets you your choice of one main course and all three sides, plus a pint of Sixpoint. Specialty cocktails (the Hapa Tai) for extra $ at the bar. Leis not guaranteed — come with your own!

August 28th at BKLYN Yard: We’re Having a Luau!

cathy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:14:50 +0000

Oh, where did the summer go? Hapa Kitchen has been busy making “hapa tapas” for a couple private rooftop and beachside parties. But we’re back in Brooklyn, and teaming up with our friends Finger on the Pulse and Mean Red Productions again for a Hawaiian-inspired menu and pig roast at The Yard!
We can think of nothing more hapa-licious than this; the term “hapa” after all originates from Hawaii, and though we’re not all Hawaiian, we’d certainly like to be beach bums sipping from coconuts on the colorful islands about now. Thank goodness there’s always the Gowanus!

Menu is still shaping up, but we’ll be bringing it back to the homeland with Hawaiian favorites like macaroni salad but with a local and seasonal twist. There will be succulent pastured swine from Tamarack Hollow Farm that we’ll roast in a traditional Chinese-Cuban (“La Caja China“) box, sides with organic vegetables provided by Long Island’s Garden of Eve Farm, and Brooklyn’s own Sixpoint Craft Ales will be pouring their latest brews. Specialty cocktails with umbrellas, you bet.

A more detailed menu will be coming up in the next week, but in the meantime here’s the info:

Hapa Kitchen Luau

w. Finger On The Pulse DJs

BKLYN Yard // 388-400 Carroll St btw Bond and Nevins (Brooklyn)

6pm – 9pm

FREE ENTRY! plate price: $10 includes full dinner and one free Sixpoint beer

No RSVP needed!