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Poke
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The original Native Hawaiian poke used no soy sauce at all — it was raw reef fish seasoned with sea salt, seaweed, and crushed kukui nut long before soy sauce arrived with Asian immigrants.
Cubed raw ahi tuna is tossed with soy sauce, sesame oil, green onion, and seaweed, then scooped into containers to go from poke counters in grocery stores and food trucks. Countless local variations add spicy mayo, onions, or macadamia nuts.
Why it's made this way: Poke developed from Native Hawaiian fishing traditions and was later shaped by Japanese and Korean plantation-era seasonings unique to the islands' immigrant mix.
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