Poke bowl shops

Raw fish, rice, vegetables. On paper a poke bowl is exactly what I should be eating. Japanese is one of my best categories, as long as the soy sauce stays out of it.

The trouble is how the bowl gets built. Most poke sauces are soy-based, and the default is to toss everything in it before it reaches you. So: sauce on the side, every time. I add a little and leave the rest in the cup.

Masago is the other one. Those little orange fish eggs are cured, so they bring their own salt. A sprinkle is fine. A scoop isn't.

Every shop builds its bowls differently, and none I know of publishes nutrition numbers, so there's nothing official to quote here.