dsi1 wrote:
> On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 10:11:32 AM UTC-10, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>> On 9/29/2016 1:07 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
>>
>> Oh, I just read they were all closing due to the glut. Stay home!
>
> That's the breaks, I can always eat sushi.

There's a Hawaiian music program on public radio here in Seattle on
weekends. Not so much Hawaiian food. I stumbled upon some fusion-y place
that had something called aloha fries which turned out to be awesome.
Also SPAM sliders.

http://ftupet.com/~tert/img/stuff/food/supersix.jpg

http://www.supersixseattle.com/