Poke: the bowl that continues to spark mainland’s fascination with Hawaiian cuisine.

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Poke: the bowl that continues to spark mainland’s fascination with Hawaiian cuisine.

Call it poké. Or correctly, call it poke. Heck, correctly and phonetically, call it poh-kay. This dish — this bowl, technically — continues to spark mainland’s fascination with Hawaiian cuisine.

 

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It has all the trappings of today’s casual zeitgeist: inherently fresh, fast, healthy. It’s refreshing, namely for Hawaiian cuisine in general, unfairly denoted by Spam, and for which stale notions of mid-century luaus still reign supreme.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/food-and-wine/2016/05/09/hawaiian-poke-trend-stateside/84146974/