Drinks

• Think fruity and tropical. For drinks at your luau, provide non-alcoholic drinks like pineapple and other fruit juices or mix it up with pineapple ginger ale. For the adults, serve mai tais, pina coladas, Blue Hawaiians and other tropical drinks.
  
  

Main Dishes

• For the main dish at your luau, serve either chicken lu'au, which is a dish made with coconut milk and spinach; huli-huli chicken, which is a form of barbecued chicken made with a mixture of ginger, sugar cane and soy sauce; or a Kalua Pig, which is a pig that has been slow roasted over an open fire pit. The Kalua pig is the trademark of luaus.
  
  

Fried Rice

• Fried rice is not Hawaiian, but it is a staple at most luaus. Modern Hawaii is influenced by Asian cuisine, and fried rice is extremely popular on the islands.
  
  

Corn Chowder

• Corn chowder is a Hawaiian soup that is easy to make and requires mixing chicken stock, cream of corn, onions, potatoes and pieces of chicken into a large pot.
  
  

Fruit

• Fruit made the island of Hawaii famous, and it should be a staple at any Hawaiian luau. Keep the table full of bananas and pineapples.
  
  

Dessert

• For dessert at your luau, serve "haupia," which is a traditional Hawaiian dessert made with coconuts that is like a pudding.