Gordon Ramsay & Chef Sheldon Simeon Try Opihi | Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted

[Music] i'm 2500 miles out in the pacific on the hawaiian islands exploring mary's rugged hana coast it's home to an incredible culinary culture here hawaiian staggering array of unique indigenous ingredients rub shoulders with exotic foods brought here by immigrants from across the world i've heard the results are mind-blowing and to find out firsthand i'm meeting trailblazing local chef sheldon simeone so excited to be here look at this coastline yeah it's this is amazing right voyagers came here using the wind the stars the birds and they found this magical place appropriately for the home of surfing sheldon's been making waves with his modern spin on classic hawaiian dishes his two restaurants showcase the best of the island's diverse multicultural cuisine and trust me there's a lot more going on here than chucking pineapple on a pizza everyone's not really from hawaii everyone had to come from somewhere and my grandparents came from the philippines when they were just teenagers the trade rinse brings all these different cultures and they kind of seamlessly melt together what does this part of the island mean for you food wise the families that live here they don't have the convenience of going down to the local supermarket so they get everything from the ocean of foraging from the mountains everyone knows where the refrigerators are and they're right in the rocks so we are on uncharted territory right now this is off the beaten track yeah well we're excited to show you and we got a lot to see and a lot to discover and we're going to start right now chef we're going to meet some foragers are these your boys these are my boys hi guys aina and alan are the kings of harvesting hawaii's unique sea life they're going to show me where the bounty's hidden gem in hawaii yeah where do we start running down here all right chef i'll leave you guys to it thank you together spiky sea urchins the guys carry everyone's favorite rhyming tools homemade prongs and old chef's tongs as well as blades to prize shellfish from the rocky shoreline is that current strong now oh man it is insane a recent downpour has cut visibility to almost nothing so i'm really struggling lucky for me the boys have find a sixth sense for seafood allen finds sea urchin or vana and aina bags a delicious spiny lobster look at this that's incredible that was tough oh yeah great job a tough snorkel visibility is difficult but what a bounty of ingredients sheldon that was magical in there huh hello i'm nice and dry here on the beach you got got some stuff huh great job you guys got some sea urchin some lobster some savannah and some opihi yeah i'm dying to taste those things and i'm not alone opihi are a protected species that can only be harvested above a certain size so i let the boys take care of that delicate task guys thank you uh thank you but a great job you guys have fun decent-sized lobsters huh yeah so in hawaii it's all spiny lobsters they don't have the claws and no i've always said we taste some of this opihi so how would you cook them would you grill them uh you'd grill them but i like them just actually like this what raw like this they're all like this so take another one i actually got some some hand-picked salt here wow you can see that it's stained uh from the lava rocks but take the smaller one and then kind of use that as a shucker oh it's safe to get it out gotcha and then the whole thing goes in the whole thing goes in there that as well everything i love it chef cheers yes delicious well you can taste that sweet crunchy creamy flavor and all that that natural saltiness not just the sea water but your salt just lifts that to another level that's delicious it's only a small little part of what hawaii is right there's a lot to discover and the first indigenous food were from the polynesian that they came and found the islands and then the next influx of of people like my grandparents who came to work on the sugarcane fields and brought all their different culture so if you look at the base of the dna of hawaiian food it's a melting pot every time somebody leaves their marks it's one layer of deliciousness that's that's added you

Channel: Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted

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Id: db1xouEHxao

Length: 5min 21sec (321 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 19 2022