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Originally Posted by Bigtime
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I went to Kona Poke last week. The guys have done a pretty good job about bringing Poke to a +15 location (it's where Sonoma Cafe used to be). The line up was long, probably 15-20 minutes, but they have lots of staff to make it move reasonably quickly.
Flavors were good - I had the ponzu sauce and had it reasonably approximate the flavors of Shoryu Poke I inhale everytime I'm in Hawaii.
My negatives? 1 small one and 1 not their fault.
1) The fact that they give you 4 choices of sauce means that they put the cubes of fish into a bowl and swish it around for 15 or so seconds with a gloved hand. The marinade doesn't really get time to work into the fish so the flavors isn't that deep into the cubes.
2) It's the reality of being in the middle of the prairies, but the fish portions were small. The "scoops" they use to measure fish are half size ice cream scoops. Overall the fish to rice/veg ratio ends up on the small side, compared to what you get in Hawaii.
Regardless of that I'll definately go back as long as the fish stays fresh.
I guess I'm a little biased as a favorite haunt of mine in Maui is the Poke bowl at any Safeway...$7 for a bowl crammed 2" deep with 1" marinated tuna cubes. There are no deals in Hawaii....except for this.
