Aloha Poke Hawaiian Poke Shack | Hawaii T-Shirt | Island Poke Bowl Tee

Step up to the window, point at the bowl that looks the best, and you've already lost an hour. The poke shack is where Hawai'i eats — fluorescent menu, fish cut that morning, shoyu and limu and a little chili pepper water if you're brave.

The word poke (POH-keh) is Hawaiian for "to cut" or "slice," and the dish began with Hawaiian fishermen seasoning the trim of their catch with sea salt, seaweed, and kukui nut long before sushi-grade was a phrase. Plantation-era Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino flavors layered in — shoyu, sesame, scallion, sambal — turning a humble fisherman's snack into the bowl the whole world now knows. Every shack has a house style, and every local has a favorite shack.

For locals, this design is a quiet salute to the after-work, after-surf ritual of grabbing a bowl on the way home. For visitors, it's the souvenir of that one strip-mall poke joint that ruined every other poke bowl for you, forever.

Soft unisex tee. Multiple sizes and colorways available.