"The origin story behind the loco moco, Hilo’s highly caloric hamburger-rice dish that comes with a gravy blanket, has a familiar narrative shape: One afternoon, a gaggle of boys arrive at a diner, hungry, and demand something off-menu. The chef scrapes together an original dish using whatever ingredients are on-hand, and voila! Both myth and local specialty are born. And there’s nowhere in LA that makes a better, more faithful version of the loco moco than Aloha Cafe in Little Tokyo, a tiny shop with wonky operating hours (it’s currently open from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday)." - Kat Hong
