In general, the English word «poke» (yes, that strange button/function on fb) has a fairly wide range of meanings. Starting from a variety of verbs such as thrust/stick/disturb/screw and ending with nouns like quitter/bummer/sack/kick.

At first, when I saw the name of this tiny corner place on South Beach, I was a bit lost as you can imagine. It turned out that «poke» in this case is nothing more than «POH-keh» (rhyming with «okay»), a traditional Hawaiian dish, which is diced marinated fish.

At the moment Poke Bowl is rapidly gaining popularity and it is no surprise because it is tasty, easy to prepare, healthy, low in calories, on top of that it gives a feeling of satiety for quite a while.

We drove to «Pokey» for a light dinner. (Yes, I am on a diet, because my new swimsuit won’t go out on it’s own, yep). So what I did like it was the complete variety of combinations. Sets of mix salads, which you can complement with tuna or octopus, or salmon, shrimp, white fish, oyster mushrooms, algae, maybe something else or all at once. Poke – the signature dish – wasn’t a disappointment too. «Bed» (literally — the bed, yet in fact, kind of pedestal) is a good alternative to bowl: quinoa , rice, glass noodles or just kale leaves (!!! Rarity! Option for the ones determined to have something stricter; that was my choice))). There is another option – «your own bowl,» as I called it. To design if you feel like being very independent: from a wide range of ingredients you choose everything you wish for. Express yourself to your maximum!

So we showed off and did design couple of fantastic bowls of our own. As for drinks – coconut water (my favourite) and cola light (contradicts my religion).

The service was quick. Beautiful and colorful glass bowls with fresh vegetables and seafood «on  top of.»  Sauces are pleasant.  As a complementary dish we were given a spicy soup, kind of Miso.  Cheap. For all we had it was about $ 50; tips and taxes included.  It was delicious. And indeed my new swimsuit was perfect on me)).