Sashimi Sashimi is one of the most popular sea food dishes in Japan,This dish refers to the raw seafood.Sashimi is an important element in Japanese cuisine, where it is often served at the beginning of a meal as a palate cleanser and appetizer. It is often compared to sushi, another popular Japanese dish, although the two are actually different. Sashimi is raw fish sliced very thin and served with a variety of garnishes and sauces. Sushi is served with rice, and often appears wrapped in specially treated seaweed known as nori.Variety of fresh sea foods are used for this dish such as :fresh fish,prawn,squid, or octopus and more,their usually served with soy sauce and wasabi or ground ginger,sashimi is traditionally served with wasabi (Japanese green horseradish) and a dipping of sauce of soy (with a little of the wasabi mixied in).
Popular Shashimis are:
Maguro:
Maguro (Mah-goo-roh) is the Japanese term for bluefin tuna,It is the best known and most commonly eaten fish in all of sushi dinning. Japanese are the ones who mosly get the bluefin tuna,The bluefin tuna is now one the most popular items in the sushi menu.
Toro of Fatty Tuna:
Toro is only taken from bluefin tuna,which are abundant in the waters of the East Coast,A small bluefin fish is the size of a baby elephant.Bluefin fish are rearely ever commercial in the U.S. because they are just so hard to handle,they only come as for when they need it for pet food.Mostly its prefferable to be eaten in the winter because it tastes better and its at its best,it is a luxurious and tasty delicacy well worth its price. Out of season, however, it may not live up to its reputation or its price tag.
