Fish King (Glendale) - Poke

Americas - USA West Los Angeles
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Great store. Lots of variety if you’re buying fresh fish/seafood to cook at home. Interesting pantry items and freezer items.

But I just can’t get behind the poke, which is on nearly every top ten list online.

They should be using Maui onions or a milder sweet variety but I think they’re using regular white onions.

Salmon poke - too much onion and the wrong kind of onion (very sharp, too pungent)

Hamachi poke - also too much onion and the wrong kind of onion (too pungent)

Hawaiian style ahi poke - no scallions or onions at all, somehow, and also needs more salt

I think I’m going to stick with Unreal Poke (Arcadia) and Dover Sole (K-town on Fridays only) as my go-to from now on.

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funny enough, I’ve been eating their ahi poke for almost 15 years and the last few there’s been a precipitous decline in it - agreed on more salt needed, used to have scallions and more seaweed, and the tuna quality has really dropped off.

Still love FK tho, the frozen Japanese hamachi collars are my fav secret item that’s usually shockingly cheap

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I have been buying the raw, farmed Japanese hamachi and making my own poke at home!

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