The Greatest! wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
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>> 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
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>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > 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.
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>> 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.
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>
> "Island" food has been coming along here in the last few years, there are several places, actually MANY I see:
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> https://www.yelp.com/search?find_des...hicago%2C +IL
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> It's kind of an update of the old "Polynesian" cuisine that was once popular, I guess...
>
> Sushi/Asian has been very thick on the ground here for decades now, they're a very popular category...even small towns have Thai, etc., restos.


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