Garlic Shrimp Plate Hawaiian Culture Shirt - Aloha Tee, Hawaii Heritage Gift, Pacific Islander

Pull up to the white shrimp truck on Kamehameha Highway and you'll see the line before you see the food. Garlic shrimp plate — buttery, golden, ridiculous — is what the North Shore eats between surf sessions.

The North Shore of O'ahu has been famous for its garlic shrimp trucks since 1993, when Giovanni Aragona's converted lunch wagon started serving heaping plates near Kahuku — sautéed head-on shrimp, mountains of minced garlic, butter, two scoops of rice, a wedge of pineapple. The shrimp themselves come from local aquaculture farms that line the highway between Hale'iwa and Lā'ie, where the brackish ponds yield sweet, plump prawns year-round. Today a dozen trucks compete for the title — Giovanni's, Romy's, Macky's, Fumi's — each with loyal followers and slightly different butter-to-garlic ratios.

For locals, this tee is a North Shore Sunday — surf check, beach, shrimp truck, repeat. For visitors, it's the memory of eating with your fingers at a plastic picnic table, garlic on your shirt, completely happy.

Soft unisex tee. Multiple sizes and colorways available.