Loco Moco Hawaiian Culture Shirt - Aloha Tee, Hawaii Heritage Gift, Pacific Islander

Loco moco — a mound of rice, a hamburger patty, two over-easy eggs, a generous pour of brown gravy. It's not subtle. It's not supposed to be. It's the most lovingly local breakfast-lunch-dinner you can put on a plate.

The loco moco was invented in 1949 at Cafe 100 in Hilo, when a group of teenagers from the Lincoln Wreckers sports club asked owner Nancy Inouye for something cheap, fast, and bigger than a sandwich. She and her husband Richard plated a hamburger patty over rice with brown gravy; the eggs came soon after. The name came from one of the kids in the group, nicknamed "Crazy" (loco). Cafe 100 still sells it today, and every island plate lunch counter — Rainbow Drive-In, Zippy's, L&L — has its own version. It is one of the very few foods invented in Hawai'i that stayed entirely Hawaiian.

For locals, this tee is the after-surf, after-game, after-anything plate. For visitors, it's the souvenir of the first time you tried a real one and quietly resolved to keep coming back.

Soft unisex tee. Multiple sizes and colorways available.