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| - This is the second time I've tried a Subway-style poke spot. The first time; at Sweet Poké, I disliked what I got for a number of reasons, including the overall taste of the final end product. This time, at To See Roll, I enjoyed the taste of my Korean Bowl a lot.
I still have trouble embracing this style of poké because it is overwhelming for a first timer to order, you don't really know what the end product will be or look like (or wether the taste of each component will complement each other), and it isn't "premixed" for you, as they would in a salad.
I know that this place isn't a salad place, but because the options for the bowl are either rice or salad, I'd actually prefer to have my salad mixed for me with the poke and other ingredients because otherwise I end up having to pick through my bowl this way and that while eating to try a little of everything, or worse--trying to mix my salad and poke myself--which ends up a mess of leaves and such falling everywhere. I am sure that if it were rice it'd be different, and I love rice, but poke bowls with rice usually give too much rice and not enough veggies for my taste, hence my salad dilemma.
Overall, my Korean bowl had a bunch of very ethnic ingredients which went well together (I loved that it was not tailored to American tastes of Asian cuisine, but actually Asiaon tastes of Asian cuisine). Some things I wasn't a fan of, like the rubbery strings of seaweed, but it did add extra texture and taste to the bowl. The bowl wasn't spicy of course, Asian level spicy is hardly ever actually spicy unless we're talking curry, but it satisfied the poke craving temporarily. Also, it came with tofu miso soup and I threw in some extra masago on the side just for fun. The to-go packaging was beautiful and neat.
Overall, a great spot to try out.
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