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Poké is a raw fish salad served as an appetizer in Hawaiian cuisine. Poké is the Hawaiian verb for "section" or "to slice or cut". Ahi poke is made with yellowfin tuna. The modern poke typically consists of cubed raw ʻahi (yellowfin tuna). The traditional Hawaiian poke consists of fish that has been gutted, skinned, and deboned. It is sliced across the backbone as fillet, then served with traditional condiments such as sea salt, candlenut, seaweed, and limu. The present form of poke became popular around the 1970s. It used skinned, deboned, and filleted raw fish served with wasabi and soy sauce.Poké is a raw fish salad served as an appetizer in Hawaiian cuisine. Poké is the Hawaiian verb for "section" or "to slice or cut". Ahi poke is made with yellowfin tuna. The modern poke typically consists of cubed raw ʻahi (yellowfin tuna). The traditional Hawaiian poke consists of fish that has been gutted, skinned, and deboned. It is sliced across the backbone as fillet, then served with traditional condiments such as sea salt, candlenut, seaweed, and limu. The present form of poke became popular around the 1970s. It used skinned, deboned, and filleted raw fish served with wasabi and soy sauce.