{"id":15769,"date":"2025-09-23T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/?p=15769"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:24:02","slug":"2025-filipino-chicken-papaya-soup-brings-homestyle-comfort-and-local-flair-to-student-lunches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/th\/2025-filipino-chicken-papaya-soup-brings-homestyle-comfort-and-local-flair-to-student-lunches\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino chicken papaya soup brings homestyle comfort and local flair to student lunches"},"content":{"rendered":"

HONOLULU \u2014 This September Hawai\u02bbi public school cafeterias on O\u02bbahu, Kaua\u02bbi and Hawai\u02bbi Island were offered the opportunity to serve chicken papaya soup \u2014 a classic Filipino dish also known as Tinola \u2014 for lunch using locally sourced bok choy and green papaya, as available. Over 2,000 pounds of local bok choy was distributed to 75 participating schools, and locally sourced green papaya was supplied to all participating Hawai\u02bbi Island schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The traditional dish was new to many students at Alvah Scott Elementary on O\u02bbahu, but brought some familiar flavors of comfort food that they regularly eat at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought it was a very unique dish,\u201d sixth grader Jayden Fukuhara said. \u201cI’ve had something similar [that] my grandma has made for me…I thought it tasted very good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixth grader Chase Kim Han agreed: \u201cI thought it was really good and I really enjoyed it. It kinda tasted like miso soup.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt tasted like my mom’s soup at home,\u201d added second grader Kennedy Supebedia, who ate three bowls. \u201cI loved it!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to bringing a locally sourced, homestyle meal to students\u2019 plates, the dish packs a nutritional punch \u2014 bok choy is rich in vitamin K, C and A, as well as folate, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium. Green papaya is low in sugar and calories, and is also rich in vitamins C, B, potassium and fiber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cafeteria staff at Alvah Scott were excited to offer this dish to the students and staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the first time we ever served this dish,\u201d Alvah Scott cook Joe Esta said. \u201cEspecially for the kids. They always like something new on the menu. So we were excited to make it for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effort is part of the Department\u2019s farm-to-school initiative, which aims to enhance food sustainability in Hawai\u02bbi and aligns with the goals of \u0e1e\u0e23\u0e30\u0e23\u0e32\u0e0a\u0e1a\u0e31\u0e0d\u0e0d\u0e31\u0e15\u0e34 175<\/a> to improve student health while supporting local farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawai\u02bbi public schools are one of the state\u2019s largest institutional consumers of food products, serving over 100,000 student meals a day. The Department continues to work closely with local vendors statewide to see how fresh local produce can be scaled across all schools in the future on a regular basis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HONOLULU \u2014 This September Hawai\u02bbi public school cafeterias on O\u02bbahu, Kaua\u02bbi and Hawai\u02bbi Island were offered the opportunity to serve chicken papaya soup \u2014 a classic Filipino dish also known as Tinola \u2014 for lunch using locally sourced bok choy and green papaya, as available. Over 2,000 pounds of local bok choy was distributed to […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":15771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"16469,15333,10994,10837,16234,9946","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","wp_popup_display_lightbox":0,"wp_popup_suppress":"","wp_popup_trigger":"","wp_popup_trigger_amount":0,"wp_popup_disable_on_mobile":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":21,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1026505-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Stanley Lee","author_link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/th\/author\/stanley-leek12-hi-us\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":21,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":21,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":306,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":21,"category_count":306,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 00:27:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_status","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}