PokeMix — Restaurant in Pasadena

Used to go to flour and tea often when it was near del mar station. It was a good place to work and grab a boba with different good flavors. Stay there for a little longer and they had basic pastries and nothing was exceptional but it was good and fairly cheap for the area.

Since moving to lake st and becoming a poke place as well the quality's just gotten steadily worse. Some of the pictures of poke bowls are old and they're no longer that normal/decent/nice looking. The fish is warm and usually a little off tasting, and all of the ingredients they put so little of anything that you wonder what you're paying for. Currently for $11 you can get a small and it's less than half of what you'd get anywhere else for the same price or less, and the quality is SO much worse. Every time I've eaten (even just to go onigiri) at the new location I've gotten sick. Every single time. Ditto for drinks, tea, boba and other sweet drinks are of course always really sugary and sweet, but whatever sweetener they're using at the new location seems like everything is either hfcs or agave syrup instead of real sugar and in taste and how it hits your stomach it's all just overly sweet that itll make you sick.

For a long time I just figured theyd gone a little downhill and maybe it was just me being picky, but then a friend mentioned they also now get sick every time...

What I Ordered Almond Milk Tea with Boba Small Poke Bowl with Scallops, Salmon, Seaweed, Guacamole and Masago

I was excited to try PokeMix because they also served boba!! My Almond Milk Tea with Boba was perfect!! Super soft, chewy boba with perfectly sweetened almond milk tea. :)

Now on to the poke. What a let down!! I think the worker who made my bowl was new and didn't know what he was doing. You would have thought he would have gave me more than half a handful of salad when I opted out on the rice. Nope!!!

A small is only 2 VERY, VERY small scoops of fish. I had the most depressing looking bowl with really fishy tasting scallops. I had to ask for spicy mayo on the side to drown out the taste. The salmon was good but, I had to pick out the onions that came with it. Luckily, my friend had someone else make his bowl because his came out normal portioned lol.

There are so many poke places to choose from nowadays. PokeMix will definitely not be one of mine. Please work on your...

Could not have been more excited to find a poke place nearby; unfortunately, I had a very poor experience. The fish in my bowl was not fresh, and the seasoning they used (I think) made it mushy; to top this disaster, they mixed it with large chunks of raw onion and destroyed the flavor. It was quite inedible. The rice was overcooked. Also, they forgot the seasoning in my bowl and the boba in my tea. Since it was a to go order, I discovered it all at home. The food was dismal, but extra star is because the staff was nice. Too bad for them, as I would never order from this...