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| - Came to Po-Ke in the evening. This is a place where you place your order at the counter, they make it and at the other end of the counter is where you pay.
I ordered the Po-ke Special bowl. As your order moves down the line, you can basically watch them craft your meal. I must say that I wasn't overly impressed with the way in which my meal was put together. Small ice cream style scoops were used to basically scoop and slop the ingredients into the bowl. The person making it seemed to not really care about the manner in which the ingredients were going into the bowl.
Once the bowl is prepared a lid goes on it, and you are at the cashier. I have an issue with places that make you tip prior to an experience of the food or service. This is basically a take-away place that has a few places to sit. When the minimum expected tip is 15%, it seems overly excessive for effectively zero effort on their part. I was told that if I tip, I need to select it at the cash register. Once I swiped my card I was presented with another prompt to tip ! Po-ke needs to fix this... This is something that just pisses me off.
Once I got my bowl, I was surprised, by really how small the fish portions were compared to the oversized portion of mandarin oranges. The salmon and tuna combined was about half as much as there were oranges. I have to say the flavour combo was really not a good combination. The sauce they put on the fish is a bit sweet too. This to me is just not what proper Poke is supposed to be.
For my 15% tip, I had to clean up my own bowl and while I was eating, I did not once see any of the staff go tidy up any of the seating areas. Don't get me wrong, I'm ok tipping as long as you can see evidence that the folks are working hard. Needless to say, there wasn't evidence of this.
Overall, it's a swing and miss on the food at Po-ke. I've been to Hawaii, the birth place of poke, and this is not the way to do it. The service was lackluster. I will be trying the other options out there for Poke.
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