On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 3:23:15 PM UTC-10, CaĆ*da de la casa wrote:
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> You folks are really changing our cuisine stateside.
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> Now I am starting to see poke joints too, and that's very recent.
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> https://www.facebook.com/Hello-Poke-1408720202493007/
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> http://pokipokinm.com/
We gave you the basic idea and you guys are taking off with it. I like how the poke bowl is view on the mainland. Our poke bowls are simple affairs with fish being the main player while on the mainland, the poke is seen as part of a bigger orchestration. You guys are going to transform the Hawaiian poke bowl into something better - with latin influences.
In Hawaii, fusion has meant mostly combining Hawaiian, Asian, and American, ideas about food. On the mainland fusion style means a mix of Asian and latin influences. That's very cool. Our part in this is as an intermediary between Asia and the Mainland.
I bought a bowl of li hing pineapple at Safeway the other day. It's fresh pineapple with Chinese salty plum powder added. Hawaii has been going nutty for the intensely sour, salty, li hing powder for the last twenty years. We put it on almost everything.
It is surprising that li hing powder never made it to the mainland but I think the time is right for it. The younger generation of eaters are looking for new tastes. It's going to come from the Mexicans instead of Hawaiians.
https://www.popsugar.com/food/What-Li-Hing-Mui-24679295
https://www.eater.com/2017/3/6/14809...moy-how-to-use