New restaurants in Hong Kong: Peek-A-Poke offers taste of Hawaii in Causeway Bay, with poke bowls starting from US$8

Peek-A-Poke’s bowls are a creative spin on the traditional Hawaiian raw fish dish. As well as fish poke bowls, you can also opt for a vegan option

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The California poke bowl at Peek-A-Poke includes salmon poke with cucumber, shredded egg and salmon roe with a “nutty buddy” sauce. Photo: Simone McCarthy

Published: 12:49pm, 23 Jan 2019Updated: 7:08pm, 24 Jan 2019

Peek-A-Poke has one focus: to serve up healthy bowls of their trendy namesake dish. They don’t have much room for more in the tiny venue that’s down a quiet street in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay district.

Dished up from a compact open kitchen equipped with a rice cooker and a toppings station, the Peek-A-Poke bowls are a creative spin on the traditional Hawaiian raw fish dish that reached mainstream popularity in recent years.

The menu, scrawled on blackboards near the cash register, consists of two options: build your own bowl or order one of five house combinations.

Several combinations were pretty straightforward, including a signature raw tuna over sushi rice with seaweed, onion, and tobiko drizzled with dashi sauce. Others mixed in some unexpected ingredients and preparations: a vegan bowl was built around “mushroom poke” while the “Go Green” tossed out the sushi rice in favour of salad greens, cucumber and tomato with a honey vinaigrette.

Outside Peek-A-Poke on Haven Street in Causeway Bay. Photo: Simone McCarthy

Though these sounded interesting, we were not about to be lured away from the more traditional raw fish and sushi rice poke bowls.