On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 9:12:35 AM UTC-10, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 9/29/2016 12:09 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 8:51:08 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 2:25:38 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> >>> On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 7:41:03 AM UTC-10, The Greatest! wrote:
> >>>> Okay, so we are finally getting Island food here in Chicago...this new place opened near me. What do you think...comments...???
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> https://www.yelp.com/biz/pokiology-chicago
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Best
> >>>> Greg
> >>>
> >>> I'd say I like the mainlander's idea of a poke bowl better than ours. You guys have more varied toppings. Typically we don't have a choice - it's just poke on hot rice. The mainlanders think of it more as a salad. That's a good idea. I'm a little surprised that people in Chicago would want to try masago, pickled ginger, seaweed salad, or raw fish.
> >>
> >> Dude, we've had sushi bars here in Ann Arbor since the 1970s. Why
> >> should a big city like Chicago be any less cosmopolitan?
> >>
> >> I haven't looked recently, but I think I can buy seaweed salad at
> >> one of the Kroger stores here. You seem to have a very antiquated
> >> idea of life on the mainland.
> >>
> >> Cindy Hamilton
> >
> > I can get sushi on the mainland but chances are slim that I'll be able to get my paws on a poke bowl - unless you know something that I don't know.. I doubt that my ideas are antiquated but I am always surprised at how things are different when I do get over there.
> >
> > If you want to trade personal jabs, I will say that, like most people in your profession, you have a certain inflexibility with words and tend to take things too literally. Your turn dude.
> >
>
> Poke bowls are all the rage on the mainland at present. That and bubble
> tea shops must account for 90% of new restaurant openings around here.
> Dudes!

That's good news. Hopefully, everything will be in place for my next trip to the mainland.