Hawaii’s Plantation Village presents its annual and delicious New Year’s Festival from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The multi-ethnic food offerings include celebratory food from Korea (mochi soup), China (gau), Portugal (malasadas), Puerto Rico (gandule rice) and Japan (kuromame, or black beans).

The event also features other ethnic foods, games played during the new year and in plantation days, a craft sale and a Chinese lion dance. And in commemoration of 115 years since the Korean arrival in Hawaii, visitors can dress up in Korean garb and take home a free photo.

For pet owners: As a nod to the lunar Year of the Dog, have your pet blessed at the village’s Inari shrine. A cartoonist will draw pets as well.

The village is at 94-695 Waipahu St. Call 677-0110.

This recipe for kuromame, served at the village’s festival for 10 years, is eaten during the holiday to ensure good health for the upcoming year.

It comes from Momoko Maniscalco, whose family has prepared it for generations. Maniscalco’s grandmother, Michi Kaneko, married a doctor in the Japanese Imperial Military. While stationed in Manchuria during World War II, she served the beans on New Year’s Day to everyone, including the Chinese.

KUROMAME (BLACK BEANS)

By Momoko Maniscalco, from “Hawaii’s Plantation Village Pau Hana Cookbook”

• 1 (16-ounce) package dried black beans
• 5 cups water
• 3 tablespoons shoyu
• 1 cup sugar

Rinse beans and soak 24 hours or longer. Rinse at least a couple of times. Place in pot and add water and shoyu.

For firmer beans: Add sugar with water and shoyu.

For soft beans: Simmer 1 hour, then add 1/2 cup sugar. After 2 hours, add remaining sugar.

Simmer gently for 10 hours. Watch level of liquid — beans should always be covered. Add water if necessary. (Some families believe it’s good luck to eat one bean for each year of your life.)

Alternative: Use a slow cooker. Add everything to crock and set on low. Cook for 10 hours.

After beans are gone, use the flavored liquid to cook chunks of pork and daikon — delicious.

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