Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Big Kahuna's, Winter Springs

I tried this newish (seven months) poke bowl place in the strip mall at Tuskawilla and Red Bug Lake Road (the one with Flanagan's Bar) last night. It fronts Tuskawilla. I had a traditional tuna bowl and a salmon bowl because I hadn't eaten since four in the afternoon of the previous day. The tuna bowl was ok. I asked for sesame oil. It would probably be less good their way. The tuna was a bit pale. It didn't taste off though. It came on top of rice with seaweed, onions and a few other things. There were temperature variations in the ingredients that affected the taste and mouth feel. Some things were too cold (almost frozen). They could iron that out. The rice was very good. Toothy. Right grain. Unfluffed. Superior to alot of sushi places in town. The salmon bowl came with edamame, seaweed, avocado, cucumber, ponzu and a few other things. The salmon looked fresh, but, was bland. Could probably use some soy. The avocado and soy beans had redundant flavor profiles. Maybe a contrast element instead? Both bowls were $10 and had alot of fish to them. $14 gets you 5 scoops. $10 gets you 3. They have five-ish pre-fab bowls and then you can make your own concoctions. The bases are tuna, salmon, shrimp (elbow macaroni sized), octopus, yellow tail and maybe ahi (I think they had two types). I think they had one veggie option. They also offer alot of sauces. I'm of the belief that this can be a dangerous thing. Think; eggs with ketchup, hot sauce on popcorn, ranch and pizza to name a few gastronomic liberties. I don't even like it when they offer up "choose your own sauces" with chicken wings. But, go ahead and experiment. The place reminded me of a paint your own pottery store for some reason. They make some attempt at appropriate decoration. It seats around twenty. It's an assembly line type set up. It was better than I expected, but could ratchet it up a notch with better sourced fish. Still a good value as it is. And it isn't a chain. Open until 9pm.

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