Ultimately, it was just what has made poke a popular food item in the past few years: a fresh and interesting way to integrate more fish into your diet.ĭa Kine Poke is located at 669 N. I did my best to eat it separately and mix the fish, avocado and brown rice together. I took it the offices of SJO where I knew there would be some eating utensils, since none were offered at the Local Meat House.Īs I expected and hoped, the kimchi was nice and spicy, perhaps a bit too much so for the delicately fresh cubes of tuna. The attentive staff meets you at this restaurant all year round. It's easy to find this spot due to its convenient location. This place is known for good beer or delicious wine. The chef at this place cooks mouthwatering poke bowl, tuna poke and tofu. The ingredients, which also included house-made kimchi, slices of fresh avocado and crunchy bean sprouts on top with a sprinkling of sesame seeds, were assembled in a clear plastic bowl and handed to me, rather unceremoniously or even graciously, for me to take wherever, or da kine, if you will. Discover new dishes of Hawaiian cuisine in the comfort of Da Kine. I still had to choose which fish I wanted (tofu wasn’t even in the running) and the rice. In fact, the choices were so daunting that I immediately chose one of the four preordained signature items, the Kimchi Poke Bowl. It offers an assemblage option where you choose your base - white rice, brown rice or salad greens - then either salmon or tuna for the fish, tofu for those so inclined - then toppings too numerous to name here, followed by a choice of one of eight sauces. It can mean whatever, including the word “whatever.”Īnd you can pretty much have whatever in your poke bowl at Da Kine. But it doesn’t have any one absolute definition.
But this is how they do it in Hawaii (the word poke means to cut).ĭa Kine (kine is one syllable with a long i) is a Hawaiian phrase, too. If it sounds like chirashizushi or fish tartar that’s because it’s very similar. In its traditional form, it was served simply with sea salt, seaweed and nuts. Poke (say poh-keh) is, of course, a sort of raw fish salad that usually has cubed fish with various other accouterments. It still says the Meat House on the outside of the building, but my receipt read “the Local.” So who knows? Then some locals announced they were buying the business and changing the name to the Local. The Meat House is a franchise butcherie that opened in Winter Park in 2011.
Or maybe it’s the Local Butcher and Market. They’ve taken over part of the Meat House in Winter Park. It only took me a year, but I finally tried Da Kine Poke, another food business that started as a food truck and then became mostly nonmobile.
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