Truffle sauce poke bowl with a 50g steak add-on in Gangnam: Ola Poke

I've been getting a lot more into dieting lately, so I've been paying a little more attention to what I eat! Today I was out running errands and heard there was a good poke place nearby, so I swung by for lunch.

Where Ola Poke Gangnam is and how to get there from Gangnam Station

Ola Poke Gangnam is at B1, Bisangga 104-ho, 46 Teheran-ro 4-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. It's a 5-minute walk from Gangnam Station Exit 4, and it's closed every Saturday.

Just follow the ARCADE B1 sign down and you'll find it right away!

Solo-dining seats and the self-serve bar at Ola Poke Gangnam

The inside of Ola Poke Gangnam had way more tables than I expected, so there was plenty of room to sit comfortably! There were even separate seats set up for people dining alone, so eating poke solo didn't feel awkward at all haha.

On one side there was a self-serve bar where you could grab whatever you needed — cutlery of course, but also rooibos tea and lemon tea so you could drink according to your taste. And after eating, there was even mouthwash so you could finish up feeling fresh!

The order: solo menu plus soup set

Ola Poke Gangnam really had such a wide variety of poke bowls — starting from the basic poke you could mix and match all kinds of toppings and sauces, so just picking a menu took me a while haha. There were so many options to choose from based on your taste that I don't think you'd get bored even eating here as part of a diet plan. I was curious about literally every item on the menu... it was delicious!!

What I ordered was the solo menu + soup set. It seemed like a solid combo for a filling meal by yourself, so I went with it right away haha. Poke alone can feel a bit lacking, but with the soup added it turned into a proper full meal.

How far can you customize a poke bowl at Ola Poke Gangnam?

What I really liked was being able to customize everything to my taste when ordering! You could add or remove toppings as you wanted, and choose your sauce too. You could even pick the salad-to-rice ratio yourself, so you could order to match whatever style you felt like eating that day. If you're on a diet, you could cut back the rice and load up on more veggies instead, which was great haha. I went with 5 salad + 5 rice, no onion or crispy onion, and added 50g of steak!

It was nice being able to eat comfortably by myself, and there was even a phone stand at the table.

How the salmon and steak poke and the mushroom soup tasted

Ta-da! Isn't the look of it already so pretty?! Loaded with colorful toppings, it made me feel healthier just looking at it lol.

The mushroom soup had a subtle aroma, and eating it warm made me feel full and satisfied from the inside out.

Look at the color on that salmon... salmon, steak, corn, seaweed, pineapple, pickles, chickpeas, lentils, furikake, flying fish roe, red onion, crispy onion. It's genuinely so loaded...........

When I actually started eating, the salmon and steak pieces were genuinely huge. But more than anything, the vegetables were so fresh. The crunchy texture was great, and the veggies themselves were so crisp it made the whole thing taste even better.

Which sauce to pick: why truffle wins

I picked the truffle sauce! If you usually like truffle, definitely go with the truffle sauce. It's savory and really brings out the flavor — the combo with the poke was genuinely great.

How long is the lunchtime wait at Ola Poke Gangnam?

You can tell just from the photos it's a protein bomb, right? With big chunks of salmon and steak, it kept me full the whole time I was eating, and I happened to visit right at lunchtime when office workers were flooding in all at once. Even though there were quite a lot of people, the food came out way faster than I expected, which was great. Lunch breaks are always tight on time, so the fact that the wait wasn't long means it'd be a solid pick for office workers on their lunch break haha.