The plate lunch is a quintessential Hawaiian meal, roughly analogous to a Southern U.S. meat-and-threes. However, the pan-Asian influence on Hawaiian cuisine and root in the Japanese bento makes the plate lunch unique to Hawaii. Standard plate lunches consist of two scoops of white rice, macaroni salad, and an entrée. A plate lunch with more than... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_lunch