Blue Whale Poke Bar and Grill
70 Hillsdale Shopping Center, San Mateo
(650) 458-3179
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Sweet Spicy Shrimp Bowl
Regular Poke Bowl
Salmon Tuna Poke
Chicken Katsu
Sushi Rolls
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My go-to at Blue Whale is a small poke bowl with rice, salmon, and edamame, with a miso soup on occasion. Both are quite overpriced for what you get. The meat-rice ratio of the poke bowl is unsatisfying, and there’s already not a lot in the bowl to begin with. The food itself tastes fine, however. I imagine other orders of poke are similar. Overall, the food is good but the portions are not worth the price, so 3/5.
The menu was updated to include more Korean options, but overall, the quality of the food is still mid. Not bad, but not worth the price. The fish tastes like any other poke fish and really leans on the sauces to be halfway decent. Korean options are not much better. Service was fine, totally depends on who's working, but no worse than any other spot in the food court. Its main benefit is probably being the healthiest option in the food court.
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It seems like nobody in the Bay Area has mentioned it.
It's a really good place.
But I had my favorite poke bowl!!!
While eating it, the rice seemed so familiar.
I also have Korean BBQ rice!
It's like the kind of rice from Taiwan
Like tender and juicy.
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