sashimi

[Sully]

I had it today for my birthday. I had about 6 different types of raw sea food! Six! Quite a variety for one meal I know. But the raw octopus and crab was the BEST!!!! Excellent texture!!!

[boxcarguy07]

mmmmmm that sounds good!
A great birthday meal indeed!

[goodsamaritan]

Happy birthday!
I have never tried raw crab.

Aren't crabs filter feeders?  I'm usually wary about the cleanliness of filter feeders like oysters and mussels.

[Raw Kyle]

I think the crab you get at sushi placers is usually cooked. Sashimi is definitely my restaurant RAF of choice!

[SilentBuddy]

Happy birthday!!!

There are some items on sashimi plate that are not raw.  Octopus and crab are usually not raw.  If the octopus and crab looked like the ones in the picture below, they were not raw.  The crab meat in the picture is not even crab meat; it is fake crab meat (imitation crab meat, made of nasty stuff). Shrimp is not quite raw either. Squid is usually raw.

Imitation crab: http://ask.yahoo.com/20030110.html

[Sully]

Happy birthday!
I have never tried raw crab.

Aren't crabs filter feeders?  I'm usually wary about the cleanliness of filter feeders like oysters and mussels.

maybe it wasn't crab, I'm not sure. there was alot of different meats. they were all raw!

[Sully]

Happy birthday!!!

There are some items on sashimi plate that are not raw.  Octopus and crab are usually not raw.  If the octopus and crab looked like the ones in the picture below, they were not raw.  The crab meat in the picture is not even crab meat; it is fake crab meat (imitation crab meat, made of nasty stuff). Shrimp is not quite raw either. Squid is usually raw.

Imitation crab: http://ask.yahoo.com/20030110.html

I hope all i ate was raw...oh well nothing i can do now

[Sully]

also had some fish eggs, i think they were salmon

[TylerDurden]

also had some fish eggs, i think they were salmon

I'm afraid almost all fish eggs are prepasteurised, unless they specifically say so(only exception is cod roe).

[Sully]

I'm afraid almost all fish eggs are prepasteurised, unless they specifically say so(only exception is cod roe).

???next time i'll just order slices of raw salmon to be safe.....

[TylerDurden]

When buying sashimi, the tuna, the salmon and the mackerel are raw. There are occasionally other types of fish which are also raw, but things like prawns or octopus are always cooked. I avoid the salmon, personally, as it's always farmed.

*I highly recommend raw swordfish or raw shark. They taste great - they're not available in sashimi restaurants, though, so you'll have to visit the local fishmongers' for those, I'm afraid, and prepare them yourself.

[Raw Kyle]

I've gotten tuna and salmon and tried to prepare it myself but it's never as good as the sashimi stuff. Maybe they use better cuts? I've had swordfish and that was pretty good, but tuna I think is my favorite.

[avalon]

Sushi/Sashimi is my Nirvana! Yellow tail is my favorite and Salmon Roe, oh and Mackerel! Oh! and nearly everything else except Clam! I hate Raw Clam! It tastes like sea scum! Eckk Pew!

[Satya]

Sushi/Sashimi is my Nirvana! Yellow tail is my favorite and Salmon Roe, oh and Mackerel! Oh! and nearly everything else except Clam! I hate Raw Clam! It tastes like sea scum! Eckk Pew!

Me too, Avalon!  Do you like oysters?  I don't think I have had raw clam, but once I had the most beautiful scallops in my sashimi dish.  They were raw, as I know the difference in taste, texture, look.

I picked up some white tuna, it's not yellowtail, but it's definitely tuna.  Anyone know about this in detail?

[avalon]

I love Oysters but haven't had any eating out in a while. I see them at Publix but I'm nervous. I've never tried white tuna, I don't think, so I am totally interested. When I was over at Wai Diet we talked about scallops and my market had some wild scallops that I bought and ate. I liked them. But I haven't had them since. I might again.

Anything simple to prepare gets a vote from me.

It's funny, if you spread some cocktail sauce over Sardines you get a very 'oyster' flavor. I mean cooked sorry. I haven't found any raw here where I live, but I'd try them if I did.

[Satya]

I love Oysters but haven't had any eating out in a while. I see them at Publix but I'm nervous. I've never tried white tuna, I don't think, so I am totally interested. When I was over at Wai Diet we talked about scallops and my market had some wild scallops that I bought and ate. I liked them. But I haven't had them since. I might again.

Anything simple to prepare gets a vote from me.

It's funny, if you spread some cocktail sauce over Sardines you get a very 'oyster' flavor. I mean cooked sorry. I haven't found any raw here where I live, but I'd try them if I did.

OMG, the white tuna was fatty and mild and dreamy and OMG!  Oh yum. 

Sardines in cocktail sauce as a pinch for oyster flavor.  Who knew?  I do eat some cooked food, about maybe 1/4 of my foods.  I try to eat all animal foods raw, but it doesn't always work out that way.  But hey, increasing the raw is making me feel so good, as is cutting down on the mega plant foods.

[avalon]

Where did you get white tuna? Tease!  :'(

[avalon]

OMG! I'm so ready to try some!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55215508@N00/2017370873/

[Satya]

Yes, that's it.  I got it from my Korean market.  It is sushi grade and frozen.  Not ideal, but with a fatty fish, it is most forgiving.  Besides, most deep sea fish is frozen on ship anyway.

Your picture is it.  The firm yet creamy nature of white tuna will linger with me off to bed now.

[Sully]

When buying sashimi, the tuna, the salmon and the mackerel are raw. There are occasionally other types of fish which are also raw, but things like prawns or octopus are always cooked. I avoid the salmon, personally, as it's always farmed.

*I highly recommend raw swordfish or raw shark. They taste great -

I'll keep that in mind.  i did have some raw tuna, it was pretty good.

[Za]

Yes it's so sad but much of what we would like to be raw is not really.

Ikura (the salmon roe served in japanese restaurants) was my favorite food as a kid. I will still have it on occasion but I treat it like a special, and possibly detrimental treat, as I'm fairly certain it is pasteurized and highly salted.

Until recently, I would still indulge in yellowtail and tuna, especially white tuna when available (the best!!) sashimi at japanese restaurants, avoiding the salmon because in the US you can generally count on salmon beign genetically modified unless otherwise explicitly indicated. But now a friend has told me that all sashimi in the US is being irradiated!

I hope this is not true, haven't done my research, but do be aware of this sad possibility!

Which means I'll have to go back to eating dressing-less salads while watching my friends eat tempura and drink sake. Oy veh.

-Za

[Satya]

Get this: Not only might some sashimi be cooked, some of it might be mislabeled in terms of what fish it is.  Great project these kids undertook.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/science/22fish.html
" In a tale of teenagers, sushi and science, Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss, who graduated this year from the Trinity School in Manhattan, took on a freelance science project in which they checked 60 samples of seafood using a simplified genetic fingerprinting technique to see whether the fish New Yorkers buy is what they think they are getting.

"They found that one-fourth of the fish samples with identifiable DNA were mislabeled. A piece of sushi sold as the luxury treat white tuna turned out to be Mozambique tilapia, a much cheaper fish that is often raised by farming. Roe supposedly from flying fish was actually from smelt. Seven of nine samples that were called red snapper were mislabeled, and they turned out to be anything from Atlantic cod to Acadian redfish, an endangered species."

[avalon]

OY!  :'(

[RawZi]

    How do I get cod roe? 

I'm afraid almost all fish eggs are prepasteurised, unless they specifically say so(only exception is cod roe).

    I'd like to try raw crab.  I've eaten raw lobster and raw shrimp, very tasty, both!

Happy birthday!
I have never tried raw crab.

Aren't crabs filter feeders?  I'm usually wary about the cleanliness of filter feeders like oysters and mussels. 

    I've eaten several kinds of raw oysters.  I like the less salty ones.  Check around to see which ones you might like.  Raw mussels are disgusting.  Maybe I just had bad luck, but I couldn't eat them, they were gross.

[RawZi]

    I've never had raw clam at a sashimi place.  At fish markets it's always  been good.

Sushi/Sashimi is my Nirvana! Yellow tail is my favorite and Salmon Roe, oh and Mackerel! Oh! and nearly everything else except Clam! I hate Raw Clam! It tastes like sea scum! Eckk Pew!

    I was disappointed when I saw that not only US, but European sashimi salmon is farmed too

When buying sashimi, the tuna, the salmon and the mackerel are raw. There are occasionally other types of fish which are also raw, but things like prawns or octopus are always cooked. I avoid the salmon, personally, as it's always farmed.

*I highly recommend raw swordfish or raw shark. They taste great - they're not available in sashimi restaurants, though, so you'll have to visit the local fishmongers' for those, I'm afraid, and prepare them yourself.

    I lo-o-ove raw swordfish    I tried raw shark, maybe it was the 'wrong' kind?  But I found the taste very disagreeable.