Posted to rec.food.cooking
|
|
Poke (dsI...)
On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 1:10:04 PM UTC-10, tert in seattle wrote:
> 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/
Well that's interesting. I'd go there. In the future, car culture will be dead but car and hot rod theme restaurants will help us remember those times.. If you're lucky, the Hawaiian toast will look something like this.
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/sh...hare_link_copy
|