What are “ama-ama” and “lau-lau”?
'ama 'ama = mullet (one presumes the fish, not the goofy hair style)
laulau = bundle or wrapper (lau = leaf)
Thanks.
So if the lau lau is the kau kau at the big luau, what’s in them?
And all these years I thought it was “umma umma.” Thanks.
Oh we’re going, to a hukilau…
The hukilau! The first hula I ever learned!
All the ama ama come a’swimmin to me!
Lau lau is taro leaf, a small piece of fish, a lump of pork fat and pork rolled in a ti leaf and cooked for about a day in an imu.
Kau kau= food
Imu=cooking pit
Kau-kau is not actualy Hawaiian, IIRC it’s Chinese. Just like a lot of the culture, food and language, it was adopted into the local culture over the years as folks came in from around the Pacific and world.
It’s very delicious. It’s not always pork, though.
Sometimes it’s chicken. The fish is usually butterfish.
Wrapped in taro leaves (they are edible. They need to be prepared a certain way, however, or you’ll get poky things in your throat), then wrapped in the ti leaves and then steamed.
I have some in my icebox right now.
Ono! (yummy)
I learned “kau kau” when I was a little kid, by watching Lt. Robin Crusoe, USNR. Since Disney would never lie, I thought it might be Polynesian. 
I’ll have to get over to Hawaii one of these days. Do a little diving, see my great-great uncle’s name on the Arizona memorial, drink a mai tai under a banyan tree (something I remember my dad saying to someone when I was little), a little diving, a little kayaking… Oh, yeah – eat some Hawaiian food! (Mmmm. Rost pork!)
Taro is also grown in the Philippines where in Tagalog it is called “gabi” (GAH-bee). You have to cook it long enough to render the irritating action of the calcium oxalate crystals harmless. These crystals act like little needles (and are called rhaphides) which pierce mucous membranes causing itching and burning.
Taro is used mostly for desserts. The starch for meals is usually rice for Filipinos (Taro is good stuff, like potatoes, and the leaves are like spinach in consistency
Honi kaua wiki wiki 
Which means…?
Is that anything like "Oka doka what a setta knocka rocka sis boom bocas (hope I said it right)?
“Kiss me quick”…okay, I cheated and used Google…