If you’re happy with your meal, tag us on Instagram to share the love. And possibly most importantly of all, provide the fun facts on the origins of local dishes. They just opened so that is completely understandable. We’re here to help demystify some of the unusual words you might see on menus like furikake, laulau and lilikoi - and explain which meat is being served and why. We ordered 2 poke bowls for pickup, long wait when we arrived, mass chaos with their team members trying to figure out orders. Here are our favorite places to savor poke in Waikiki.īut wait, there’s more. Spicy versions may use kim chee or chile-pepper-spiked mayonnaise to kick it up a notch, while avocado can add a creamy touch. Today, traditional poke preparation usually includes a marinade of sesame oil, shoyu (the local word for soy sauce), diced onions, seaweed and a sprinkle of chopped kukui nuts, but you can find a dazzling array of seafoods as its base, or even tofu or veggies. Poke (“poh-kay”) means “to slice or cut into pieces,” which is how early Polynesian voyagers prepared the raw fish they caught to sustain them on their journeys to the islands.
