noun
- a Hawaiian food made from cooked taro root that is pounded into a paste
Examples
- We ate poi with our fingers at the traditional Hawaiian feast.
- The poi had a slightly sour taste and sticky texture.
- Fresh poi is purple-gray in color and very thick.
- Many visitors to Hawaii try poi for the first time at a luau.
- The restaurant served poi alongside kalua pig and lomi salmon.
- She learned to make poi from her Hawaiian grandmother.