Paʻiʻai with Daniel Anthony by Kate and Elizabeth

Today we went to pound taro into Paʻiʻai and it was really fun. We learned what Paʻiʻai is; it tasted like poi but with less water. It tasted yummy!

The ingredients are taro and a little bit of water. You make that by cleaning the skin off and then we used a knife to scrape off all the inedible stuff. Kumu Daniel told us that the outside was the hamburger and the inside was the steak, we then tried to scrape off the hamburger the best we could.

This part would later be used by Kumu Daniel and his crew to make poi. Then we pounded it with the pohaku (a stone carved to make a pounder). What we liked most about the experience was the pounding with the pohaku.

Pa'i'ai is special because it is made by hand poi is made by a machine.