Hawaii Magazine
Hidden Gems: Alicia’s Market on Oʻahu
Once a neighborhood grocery store in Kalihi, this beloved family-run shop is best known for its super-fresh poke, roast pork and boiled peanuts.
Oct 14, 2020
And no one here needs a menu.
The loyal customers of Alicia’s Market, a former grocery store that started serving
poke when it opened in 1949, know exactly what they want, whether it’s the popular wasabi-masago poke (
ʻahi cubes tossed with capelin roe and the spicy paste from Japanese horseradish root) or the crispy-fatty roast pork.
(Poke is typically composed of cubed raw fish—usually ʻahi—seaweed, sweet onions and inamona, or roasted kukui or candlenut.)