Poke Ocean Japanese Cuisine

I love this place. I haven't found any other local Sushi restaurant offering the quality and freshness they have at Poke Ocean. Its local, run by a local family, supporting a local community and is just terrific. I had to order from somewhere else recently (only because Poke wasn't open) and I was so underwhelmed. I will never make that mistake again!

It's great ice atmosphere and the food was very good

My friends and I were around the area and was looking to eat a quick dinner before heading to our shows. We went online and browsed this place and decided to settle our dinner here. Big parking outside but the plaza probably need to work on redoing some pavement there. First impression of the restaurant was not bad. It was pretty clean and quiet. The waitress quickly set up our tables and provided our menus. So far so good. Now here is why I ended up giving 2 stars for being an OK restaurant. Firstly, there are two ladies in there but only one can take orders or willing to take orders. Our waitress was missing and this lady said she will be back and just stood there. She would only do the carrying food out and other waitress job but cant take an order. Weird. Secondly, the only thing I recommend from here is probably their sushi. Yes, this is a Japanese poke place so they better have some good quality sushi. I don’t recommend anything else besides sushi. No teriyaki, no soba, etc. i ordered a chicken teriyaki for my kids to share. The chicken is dry af! My 18mos with teeth spits them out. My 5yo don’t even wanna touch it. I tried and i wanna spit that out and not touch it again. Waste of money. Next, my friend ordered a poke bowl, chicken soba, and beef fried rice. Poke bowl is sushi so should be good right? Nope. Maybe the protein part cause that’s sashimi. But they can’t customize the bowl to half rice and half salad. Fine! Then just salad. Their salad inside the poke bowl was like two dingy lettuce. Really now? Now that chicken soba was not soba at all. We all know what soba noodle looks like and taste like. The dish came out all soggy. The beef fried rice portion looks decent but taste wise, i don’t know now. Another friend also ordered shrimp fried rice. Same thing, portion looks not too bad, but taste i’m not sure. I only know they will not want to reorder. The fried rice all have these white pepper taste inside. My guess is one either they wanna have that spicy kick in the fried rice or two, it’s to cover up the MSG. It’s just not too satisfying that the kids end up complaining about the spice when we thought these fried rice are suitable for young kids to eat. And to our surprise, the beef fried rice actually cost way more than their shrimp fried rice, which is a bit strange to us as all other places are usually the opposite on that. After all the bads, one good thing I hear was my husband complimenting about their Chirashi because they do offer a few more pieces compare to other places. Most likely not a return visit from us.

My friends and I were around the area and was looking to eat a quick dinner before heading to our shows. We went online and browsed this place and decided to settle our dinner here.Big parking outside but the plaza probably need to work on redoing some pavement there. First impression of the restaurant was not bad. It was pretty clean and quiet. The waitress quickly set up our tables and provided our menus. So far so good.Now here is why I ended up giving 2 stars for being an OK restaurant. Firstly, there are two ladies in there but only one can take orders or willing to take orders. Our waitress was missing and this lady said she will be back and just stood there. She would only do the carrying food out and other waitress job but cant take an order. Weird.Secondly, the only thing I recommend from here is probably their sushi. Yes, this is a Japanese poke place so they better have some good quality sushi. I don’t recommend anything else besides sushi. No teriyaki, no soba, etc. i ordered a chicken teriyaki for my kids to share. The chicken is dry af! My 18mos with teeth spits them out. My 5yo don’t even wanna touch it. I tried and i wanna spit that out and not touch it again. Waste of money. Next, my friend ordered a poke bowl, chicken soba, and beef fried rice. Poke bowl is sushi so should be good right? Nope. Maybe the protein part cause that’s sashimi. But they can’t customize the bowl to half rice and half salad. Fine! Then just salad. Their salad inside the poke bowl was like two dingy lettuce. Really now? Now that chicken soba was not soba at all. We all know what soba noodle looks like and taste like. The dish came out all soggy. The beef fried rice portion looks decent but taste wise, i don’t know now. Another friend also ordered shrimp fried rice. Same thing, portion looks not too bad, but taste i’m not sure. I only know they will not want to reorder. The fried rice all have these white pepper taste inside. My guess is one either they wanna have that spicy kick in the fried rice or two, it’s to cover up the MSG. It’s just not too satisfying that the kids end up complaining about the spice when we thought these fried rice are suitable for young kids to eat. And to our surprise, the beef fried rice actually cost way more than their shrimp fried rice, which is a bit strange to us as all other places are usually the opposite on that. After all the bads, one good thing I hear was my husband complimenting about their Chirashi because they do offer a few more pieces compare to other places.Most likely not a return visit from us.

I think this place has started to go downhill. Two out of three items ordered didn’t seem fresh including my egg/tamago sushi. There is no way it was prepared when I ordered it. It was cold, limp and scant. The egg thin and much larger than the rice. I don’t know if I can order from here again.