Filling this bowl with Hawaiian poi is simple: all you have to do is mash the cooked corm on a papa ku'i ‘ai with a pōhaku ku'i ‘ai, or a carved basalt pestle. What is the main ingredient of this pasty dish from Hawaii?

Poi is a staple food in the native cuisine of Hawaii and is made from the underground stem - or corm - of a taro root. Taro is called "kalo" by Hawaiian natives. Poi is mashed up, and is known as either a "one-finger," "two-finger," or "three-finger" dish depending on its thickness.

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