On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 10:46:39 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
wrote:

>On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 3:23:15 PM UTC-10, Caída de la casa wrote:
>>
>> You folks are really changing our cuisine stateside.
>>
>> Now I am starting to see poke joints too, and that's very recent.
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/Hello-Poke-1408720202493007/
>>
>> 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

Hawaiian: 1

>poke bowl into something better -
>with latin influences.
>
>In Hawaii

Hawaii: 2

>, fusion has meant mostly combining Hawaiian

Hawaiian: 3

>, 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

Hawaii: 4

>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.

Hawaiians: 5

There have been a few people in this newsgroup obsessed with where
they live and how great it is there (Jebus, Janet UK), but there can
only be one winner: the utterly, totally Hawaii-obsessed dsi1, aka
Rocky!