 The host, Adam Richman, tried the dish at the Hukilau Café, located in nearby Laie.Richman also tried an off-the-menu loco moco at a San Francisco eatery called Namu Gaji on his 2014 show, "Man Finds Food".In 2018, on a different episode of the revived "Man v. Food", host Casey Webb tried a loaded version of the loco moco at Da Kitchen in Maui.