me, looking at a fish: holy shit that looks delicious i wish i could just slurp that bad boy right up, no cooking or nothin
sushi restaurants: have we got news for you

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me, looking at a fish: holy shit that looks delicious i wish i could just slurp that bad boy right up, no cooking or nothin
sushi restaurants: have we got news for you
sometimes I go to the fish market and buy sashimi grade tuna slabs and just eat it with a fillet knife and some soy sauce + wasabi
just hanging out with someone with the tuna on the coffee table
it's so fucked that you can do that! sometimes i buy a filet of saba and i eat that mf. we stan a previnegared fish
mackerel is one of those fish where it feels like you can really taste the mercury, and I figure if I'm going to be paying for it anyway by weight I might as well taste it unlike those other fish
mackerel is the smoky mildly pickled fish that has been neither smoked nor pickled (for the unpickled variants) and that's why it's proof of the divine machinery at work
highly recommend just going to a fishmarket, an Asian grocer failing that, and then the fish counter at a supermarket, unless the farmers market often has fishmongers there instead of just someone who also sells fish
but you can probably trust it either way, it's just people who sell fish and other things but aren't fishmongers/fish counters, they're unlikely to have sashimi slabs
tuna is usually the cheapest and easiest to cut, salmon is soft so it's harder to cut casually. But nearly all fish are flash-frozen on the boat, which kills all the parasites. (don't get fish you eat raw from someone who is selling their own hobby catches though, they may not have been frozen)
The farmers market here is the kind that cut the fish in the back, I think it's the closest thing we have to a fishmonger. Well, that and super H mart I suppose.
oh yeah that's cool then, i thought you meant like, a tents in a parking lot kind of farmers market where it's harder to get fish that isn't already portioned out
Yeah no this place is a Whole Thing, actually bigger than the local supermarkets and mostly produce and meat. I need to figure out if it's a chain or not. That was a whole rabbit hole. Anyway, yeah no it's reasonably fresh. They probably have "sushi grade" fish, I just tend not to look much in there because it's a lil expensive for 'ol canned tuna me.
yeah.
i know it's more expensive still, but the jarred tuna and the Italian canned tuna often is a lot less dry and more taste having, it took me a long time to learn that, and it let me use less other ingredients so it evens out. ymmv.
pasta, capers, lemon, shredded packaged tuna, parsley with a light coating of vinegrette (as the sauce) served cold, is my go to cheap summer evening food.
the capers are pricy per jar but you don't need much. caper berries are cheaper by unit taste but require you to cut them up. you can probably substitute them for kosher salt and a bit more vinegar/lemon.
i don't use real lemon i use the lemon concentrate squeeze bottles, just make sure they have actual lemon, some are lemon flavor and citric acid and they taste like toilet cleaner smells
The thing I make with canned tuna actually benefits from it being as dry as possible, I get the store brand cheapo cans for it. Tuna, mayo, relish, some spices, mixed by hand and eaten in pita.
This is why my roomate does most of the cooking.
I maintain that sushi restaurants are often located near aquariums for this reason