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Drinking, dining choices excel at Hungry Monkey

Erika Engle
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Joaquin Simo of Alchemy Consulting in New York City serves a “Sing for Your Supper” on the upper level of the two-story Hungry Monkey dine-around.

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Festival co-founder, chef and restaurateur Roy Yamaguchi presented lamb pastrami with curry aioli, Korean pickles, grated ricotta salata on Baker Dude’s sourdough rye bread.

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Ken Oringer, half of the duo behind Toro restaurants, a Spanish tapas concept, pitches his smoked marlin dip at the Hungry Monkey dine-around as part of the Hawaii Food and Wine Festival. Toro as in bull-fighting, or toro as in sashimi? The name refers to both pork belly and the luxurious cut of fish, both of which he loves, he said.

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Smith’s spicy wild boar and Kauai shrimp sausage with “Geechie Boy” grits and green papaya slaw.

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Chef and restaurateur Art Smith of Florida and Hawaii chef and restaurateur Alan Wong have known each other for decades and were catching up at the Hawaii Food and Wine Festival’s Hungry Monkey dine-around at the Modern Honolulu. Wong had the night off from cooking duties.