New chefs join Chai at Hawaiian
After his shopping excursion
Chef Jon Matsubara, right, of Azure prepared a meal for Natalie Morales and Willie Geist during a live broadcast of the 'Today' show on the beach fronting the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki on Monday at 1a.m.
Prominent next-generation Hawaii chefs have joined Executive Chef Chai Chaowasaree in Hawaiian Airlines’ in-flight culinary program.
The chefs, whose names are predominant in online reviews by professional and amateur food critics, include Jon Matsubara of Japengo; Lee Anne Wong of Koko Head Cafe; Wade Ueoka of MW Restaurant; Andrew Le of The Pig & The Lady; and Sheldon Simeon of Mala Wailea and MiGRANT.
Dishes created by the local chefs will be featured for six months at a time in the first-class cabin of all flights from Hawaii to the mainland, while Chaowasaree will continue to create the menu for Hawaii-bound flights from the mainland.
Matsubara’s dish, featuring local ingredients, debuts Monday. The dish is titled Maui red wine-braised short ribs with kalo (taro) mash or kalo poke with seaweed, inamona and green onions. Matsubara’s dishes will be featured through Nov. 30, to be followed by Lee Anne Wong’s creations from Dec. 1 through June 1, 2016; and then dishes by Wade Ueoka, Andrew Le and Sheldon Simeon.
