Camping with a Hawaiian Legend Catch Cook.

For the next two days, I'm camping with the Hawaiian legend Uncle E. I'll be diving into the depths of his backyard exploring the ocean's floor and searching for the tastiest fish Hawaii has to offer. Uncle E will be cooking up some killer grinds and teaching us some cool things along the way. So let's go check him out. Before we check anything out we got to deal with this Uncle E's truck broke down and it's been stuck in the driveway. So we got to move it first before I can head back to the sacred grounds. But you know how it is. Everybody stay busy and I'm just waiting on the rain. Waiting on the rain to fall. So everything stay all boss. We right back to it trying to fix it up. But the water nice boys. The water is nice. Hey that's the main thing huh? We're going to eat. I missed it. What happened? The back opened up. Dude everything fell out the back. Not everything. It's only about half. Oh the laundry soap. You should have saw that. It opened everything fell out and then I ran over it. Yeah well at least the job's done. I'll bring up my truck and we can throw everything inside. A big storm just came through and busted everything off including Uncle's truck. But right now it's actually pretty calm. The winds are starting to pick up but the ocean is surprisingly flat right now. There's swells all over the whole island except for this spot right here. So I gotta jump in the water right now. Poke six to eight fish and get the heck out of there because there's actually supposed to be another big storm coming tonight. But we'll see what happens. I got that fresh new tip. The whole island just massive waves and swell everywhere but right here it's just flat like a lake right now. We're off to a pretty late start today. We weren't sure if we're going to camp because of the storm but since it's kind of late I just got to poke a couple fish. Maybe like six. Six fish sounds good. Just enough for din din tonight. Tomorrow I'm going to hit a mod. So as soon as I jumped in this Honu starts flying straight towards me. I'm not sure what he's doing but I continue my way down to the depths and I land on this huge school of Micos. Unks has been trying to get me to shoot a couple of these so he can make a creamy sauce out of the gonads. But today I'm gonna focus on something a little different. I'm watching this school of Nai Nai feeding on the rocks here and I'm trying to pinpoint the biggest one. I'm lining up on a shot when I notice another huge school of Micos charging in. This drop was so magical that I decided to not take anything. Next drop and I spot perfect size for the pan fryer. I brain this guy with my evolved knife. I throw him on my Kui and I get back down there because I spotted a big red Uhu hiding in the rocks. I know it's down here somewhere and there it is. I line up for my shot. I got a nice shot on her and I pin her against the rocks and into the hole. I'm just hoping there's not a big Puhi in there. I stick my hand in there and I was able to recover her safely. I got a beautiful meal for the whole family to enjoy. I got two fish and all I need is four more and out of nowhere this table boss swoops in. I grab him with my hand and I got enough air left in me to get one more. I want to get Unks a nice mixed plate and unfortunately one of these Nai Nais gots to go. If you want a three-prong or gun like mine go check out evolvediving.com. Use my promo code HAMA for 10% off your entire order. That's 10% cheaper than anywhere else. I go to brain this guy and he still had some mana left in him to try and bite me. I was able to snag him, put him out, and get him on the Kui. I got four down and I need two more fish to go. I'm pretty sure this is the same Honu as before because the way he just floats towards me is a little creepy. I spin towards my right and I see a monster Pachi hiding in the hole. I peek around and make sure there's no monsters sneaking up. The coast is clear so I pull this guy off my prongs. I load him up and I go for one more pan fryer. My six fish mish is finally completed. The Kole fish is a surgeon fish and it has two razor sharp blades in the back of its tail and it decides to blast me right here. I shot a lot of these and only been poked once but I don't want to get poked again so I cut the barbs off. I wrap them around my waist and my hand kind of hurts. It's not a wide cut but it is a deep cut. Now that I'm injured I better get out of here fast so I start swimming back to shore. Well I got some nice ones and I got a nice little hole in my hand but sometimes you gotta pay to play. Let's go find uncle. The best part of the dive is getting your fish on ice and rinsing off. So Honiboi is Uncle Yi's son and he flew in all the way from Waianae to come camp with us. So I'm his uncle, his dad is my uncle. Honiboi, so you flew all the way in from Waianae? Just a few days I think three or four. And now you're going back? I think I'm gonna go, I'm going back Saturday. Short stay. Back to what, you're on spring break? Spring break yeah. Back to school? Back to work and then school. He's the most educated one out of all of us over here. We got the Rastafari. Yes uncle. How are you guys? Is everything? What you got? Yeah just the regular stuff we need for the kitchen. We have to go take them out of the house so that the thing won't blow away. You look for a chopping board inside a swamp. Some grinds. We just fixed the table. How's that set up? Brand spanking broken. It's solid though. Should I put pressure right there? Oh that's real good. Something you missed a spot. I don't have enough. Come check out the catch from today. Killakui. Nice. Yeah we'll go check them out. You was out for a little longer than I thought. Well I was thinking one hour but that was probably like what hour 30. I think this one's baby opaka paka I think. Look at that. Whoa that's some big red skin. Not bad huh? We'll make good eats out of that I tell you what. Nice mixed plate huh? Boss. Oh colele. Got a cole gami. Oh you're puking a hand. Yeah. Okay well we'll make something nice out of all this. I was thinking tonight maybe what you down for have some like butter sauce pasta. Oh that sounds bueno. I get all kind of herbs from the farm this time. Oh who's this? Moto. Moto stay calm boys. Oh we got the moto boy rolling in. Yes sir. What's up moto? Good day. Oh nice Audi truck. You let Onks borrow your truck. Onks' truck was down and I came to the rescue. I let him borrow my truck for two months. It started off as two days then it started off into two weeks then um two months and then two years almost. Now there's two dents in them. You know what I'm pretty sure that's my truck. When they're driving down the road they go who's that Japanese guy? What are you guys scoring? Small kind. Got some you want to see? Sure. Let me check them out. Oh tree prong. Tree prong action. Double shaka. Oh is that a freaking Apache? It's a big one huh? That came from that CT9. Yeah CT9. I got on E-T-9. So what fish you want us to clean up? We don't need all of this. There's too much for all of us and maybe we can save the the uhu for later. Me and Aunty boy we're gonna go clean some fish. We got the little puhi coming out to grind the guts. Okay we got the fish all clean. The puhis are all fed. Now we gotta go feed ourselves. What is this guy up to over here? Top secret kind of stuff. He's trying to rig up the fishing line. What is wrong with you? I wasn't sure if I'd ever share this spot but this is my peaceful zone right here. My throne as they call it with my beautiful view. Tonight we're gonna make some pasta. We gotta cook the noodles first so let's throw that in. We're gonna try to whip a little bit. See if we can get some topping for that pasta. Oh well we didn't catch any toppings for the pasta so we're just gonna use parmesan. Look at this fresh vanilla that we grew. Nice and fat and very aromatic. Give it a sniff. Wow garlic. I wanted it whole. I'd rather take that. It is whole. You can have this back. I'll take this. It's plenty different pieces of whole garlic. Nah that's okay I get them you don't need help. Put some garlic. This is gonna be a pasta dish so we're gonna do some eggplant. We got all of this from the farm so we got some fresh oregano. One thing we did not have was the basil so we have to buy that. I feel kind of bad about that because I do not like being a consumer while owning a farm but basil does not like growing here. I'm gonna try to put it on the top and see if we can keep it separate. This is a serrano. Why is hula so special to Hawaiians? Well for one I don't dance hula so I would ask when kumu hula for that question but so far as I know it's our way of telling the story of our history of Hawaiian people. We don't have a bible but we get hula abuish. They tell the story. That's how you can mapopo what is going on. We're oratory and so chanting saying using dance to explain sometimes the name of different rains sometimes the different conditions of the world sometimes how we got here in the first place so far as on sailing culture and sometimes we explain our kings. Planning hulas is about planning. No it's about ding-dings. How does that work? If you listen to the stories in the hula and you can watch these females even males perform the hula. That's some story. They're explaining something. It's so important for the survival of our culture that they do that. Hula is the Hawaiian heartbeat of the people. Some peppers slight bit of spice not too much just a little bit. We got the serranos. We got the Hawaiian ni'oi. You gotta have a good kui. The pasta cooked. It's al dente. I'm gonna put that on. So we got some vegetables and spices and that'll go in. A bunch of herbs. Put some rosemary. So this can bring down the heat a little bit. The basil is looking really nice. Kaua'i po'akai. Oh I gotta grab the fish and we're gonna throw them on the pasta. Some pachi, table boss and one kole. We should just we'll just put this in and braise it. Hawaiian gravy po'akai from Kaua'i. This is the cheap parmesan. Family style. Well we lucked out with the storm tonight. It didn't hit and it's nice and dry. Trying to get this fire going but still a little wet. Trying to start firing. Gotta add the fresh and there's our braised table boss. Looks like it's coming off the bone. I better hurry up and there we go. How's this awesome boss pasta? Table boss pasta. It looks beautiful. I should have took a picture. First bite. Oh my god dude. There's so much going on. I'm not sure if it's that specific bite but I got the powdered and grated parmesan cheese in it. You'd think like since they're both parmesan cheese it may not be the best together but they work so well. It's like the same flavor with a different texture. I like the complexity of the different textures as well as the flavor because the two parmesans actually don't taste the same. They're different but you put them both in and there's a play on it. It takes your mouth hopefully to like a wonderland. It's just lightly braised. That does have some kick to it. You want to grab some hapia for dessert? Oh what is this? This is pani popo. It's a Samoan dish that's got like a coconut bun. It's bread with coconut cream in it and this should be delicious for dessert. Pani popo. It's good. I like trying. I splashed in some of the pasta water. Yeah it's nice and salty like got a little caramelized. It looks kind of like a mochi cake almost. Oh look at that. Voila. Hapia. Dango berry. That's pretty fire actually. Sweet sweet sweet potato. I like trying. Well looks like I forgot my camping blanket but I got my backup sheet so I won't be freezing too badly tonight. I got the full opu and now it's moe moe time. It's a cold and rainy day in Hawaii. This little bed sheet kept me semi-warm last night. The water's actually looking magical this morning. Holy smokes. I'm gonna gear up and go check them out. Any luck today? No luck. Better go Vegas. Better luck over there. Yes have a good day. All last night I was getting severe flooding warnings on my phone and this morning it's actually a beautiful day in Hawaii. The storm that was supposed to hit is called the Kona Lowe. It was supposed to hit last night but today is actually the nicest day we've had in a long time and I get to go explore the home zones. First drop of the day and today the water is much cleaner. The visibility is a lot clearer and I decided to stop by and say hi to my favorite school of maikos. I start spinning around because I am on the hunt for some kole. I found a nice size one. I pull them off my prong and I hunt down one more. I got the two for one special and I'm off to a great start. I learned my lesson yesterday so I brain this guy. I throw him on my kui and I spot an incoming honu zooming on by. I wonder what he's gonna do today but I gotta focus on trying to get more kole. I got one cornered but as I go for my shot he slips into the hole. I spin to my left and I notice a school of nenue. I see one coming in towards me so I'm lining up for another shot but then he jukes me out. I'm 0 for 2 so I decide to bust out my lucky spoon and now I ain't messing around. I'm keeping my distance and I'm hiding behind these coral heads but this kole is staying far away. I gotta go for the long shot. I look off into the distance to make sure it's clear and I got myself another nice size kole. I grab this guy and I go for one more. I put this guy on my belt and now I'm trying to be as sneaky as possible because I got the boss of the boss right in front of me. A purple table boss that is. I'm not interested in the yellow boss. We just ate him last night. I'm going after this purple guy but he's on to me and he makes a run for it. I don't think he's coming out of here so I spin to my right and I get myself another kole. This looks like the honu from yesterday kind of zoning out but I gotta get me one more kole. I slide him onto my kui and now I got five dinner plate size koles. I got plenty of kole so I'm gonna let this guy go and I'm gonna go after that nice kupipi. I got the kupipi so I pull them off and all I need is one more fish to complete my mish. I see a nenue coming in so I try to intercept them with my CT9. The mission is completed and now I gotta swim in as fast as I can back to shore. I got some nice koles for pan fry and a bonus little kupipi. Let's go get these guys on ice and rinse off. Honey boy is on dish duty. Do we have like soap? There's sponges right there behind you. Uncle come check them out. I went this morning. You went this morning? You had a good time? Yeah I had a good time. You felt safe the whole time? Yeah somewhat. You never deal with the the big boy? No. You know fin on the back? No thank you. Nothing crazy today. Look like a pile of koles. Fat koalas in that big. Wow. One kupipi just for you? Yeah. You ever had kole sashimi? We'll go try. The secret way to frying fish. We use coconut. Clamming food. Oh. Why don't I just blossom? I get on the gloves because I want to sustain my injuries regarding some stuff. So we like that toasted garlic. You gotta cross hatch it. Make your wife happy. There you go. You got it bub. You got it. Play with textures for deliciousness. How did you learn most of your cooking when you were growing up? I'm self-taught. Nobody fed me as good as I wanted to be. My family contributed pretty big time. I might have to keep it a secret. Garlic coconut oil. So why not? Game changer. Put some sweet into that bad boy. You like try this inside? Nice. We got one already. Yeah. Fried manpachi. One of my faves. That's gotta be. Yeah so right now we're cooking fish but the truth is we're tempering the oil because the entree is coming up. This is just pupus. But it's getting nice and crisp. And then after that we've been trying the uhu. When we try the uhu we get all the flavors of all of these premium fish. Honey boy's gotta go clean the fish. Sandy huh? Holy. The puhi's coming. Gotta be careful. I'm gonna peel some green papaya. What is that? It's a pipi nolo. We're gonna make some papaya salad. I'm gonna add in a little bit of citrus. I might eat a little bit of the manpachi. We gotta fry the uhu for some uhu curry. We're just trimming over here and want the cooking to be even. Each one of these is going to be a fat piece. It's going to be on them. Yeah. I don't turn them off after but. Now I'm going to splash the paya. See the nuggets. So what's going in the sauce Onks? This is curry, curry paste from Thailand. And right now I just put in the coconut cream. Now I'm going to add some orange to give it a little bit of sweetness. And we're going to end up putting that on top of our fried uhu right over here. Tell you what you end up marrying on Thai rolls. Sample some of that. Oh it's in the goodie box. Onions and Snickers huh? Can't forget about that cheek. That's a good bite right there. What are you cutting up? Pipinola. What's the one dish you'd bust out to win a girl over? Depends on her race. Depends on her ethnicity. If you're young Filipino, you gotta roger the adobo. You get one Americano, you gotta go with the pork chops and mashed potatoes with gravy. An Irish girl. I make her corned beef. Yeah. They love corned beef. Yeah we love Korean. Right on boys. You guys ready? Got the red uhu with the curry bro. Love you guys. What we got going on? Some papaya salad. Some Thai curry style uhu. Some fresh Japanese rice. That's why I diamond them out so the thing busts off in the chunks. Fresh uhu curry that we've been cooking all day long. Wow. For tree pong you know. Oh that's so good. I love it when you get the red ones. That is the best way I ever ate uhu I think. Really? Yeah. I don't think, I think I was What is going on? You shoot uhu with one tree pea. Always tastes way better that way. Which one do you think? Last night or this dinner? I think this is the best thing we've eaten. Yeah no this is really good. Like you've really been uh stuffing it up with the seasoning. I know how to cook bro. It's crazy. This is daunting. That's how you won your mom over bro. Papaya salad, carrots, and also some sliced apples. Cheers. I wish I had roasted peanuts on top of it but I don't but that's good. I was wondering wait what is what even is this? What is that? Well what do you think? It looks like they tried to make a poi pounder but then they didn't get the bottom. No. Or the top like I don't know. Personally I don't like the way you're touching it. You said you're gonna make it freaking not weird. Grab it like this you know grab it like that. Dad stop. This is a there's something called a mortar on pestle. Oh okay. So there's a a wood or a stone bowl. This is given to me by uncle Rico and then you pound the inumona. Yeah yeah. Chili pepper whatever you gotta pound and then that's what I use nowadays for me whatever the relishes that we do. What's up with these ones? It's just on rocks son. It's gonna be a pop or a pohaku kui ai one day. Right on you guys. Mahalo for checking them out. We always get good times. Had a wonderful meals. Jason guys didn't hit them hard. Well not Jason guys it's Jason. All right just glad that the ohana could come over and enjoy. The ugu was terrific. Mahalo kai. Mahalo aina.