Yep that's right - in Hawaii.
The Hawaii Council on Portuguese Heritage presents its 31st annual Portuguese Festa, featuring the music, costumes and crafts of the Portuguese in Hawaii — not to mention the food. Dine on mainstays such as Portuguese bean soup, malassadas, vinha d'alhos pork, codfish stew and Portuguese sausage hot dogs on sweet-bread buns.
According to some accounts, the first European to find the Hawaiian Islands may have been a sea captain from Portugal who was sailing under the flag of Spain, approximately 200 years before Captain Cook arrived. The first Portuguese contract laborers came to Hawaii from the Azores and the Madeira Islands many of them arrived between 1877 and 1884. By 1884 there were nearly 10,000 Portuguese workers in Hawaii and by the early 1900's there were more then 15,000.
The first Festa organized by the Hawaii Council on Portuguese Heritage took place in 1978.
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