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The plate lunch (Hawaiian: pā mea ʻai) is a quintessentially Hawaiian meal, roughly analogous to Southern U.S. meat-and-threes. The combination of American and pan-Asian influence arose naturally in Hawaii, and has spread beyond it.
Standard plate lunches consist of one or two scoops of white rice, macaroni salad (in an American style), and an entrée (usually in a Japanese style such as chicken katsu or teriyaki).[1] A plate lunch with more than one entrée is often called a "mixed plate".