"Tea" > wrote in message
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>
> "Musashi" > wrote in message
> om...
> >
> > "Tea" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > I would call Mitsuwa Marketplace in Edgewater NJ. It is 20 minutes
from
> > New
> > > York, and has unfrozen fish all the time.
> > > "Chris" > wrote in message
> > > ...
> > > > Does anyone know where I can order fresh, never been frozen, true
> > > > bluefin loin, ether maguro or toro, in quantities of 1 or 2 pounds?
> > > > This is going to New York.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > >
> > I wonder if the Tuna at Mitsuwa or any other Japanese food store is
really
> > "never frozen" though.
> > I say this because a great majority of tuna that arrives in the fish
> markets
> > in Japan arrive in flash frozen
> > form, the fish being frozen at sea. If the Japanese food stores in the
US
> > are buying tuna airshipped from
> > Japan then I'd think most of that would have been frozen once.
> > On the other hand I have seen whole unfrozen tuna caught in local waters
> in
> > fish markets in Japan. Also,
> > if any of the stores in the US are buying from the Tuna fishermen of the
> US
> > Northeast (Massachusetts being the
> > biggest USNE supplier of bluefin, but Long Island amd NJ also) then I
> guess
> > that they might be
> > getting "never frozen" tuna. I do know that in Japan "once frozen" is
not
> > considered detrimental to the texture
> > or taste.
> Most of their fish is flash frozen. However, the store's annual tuna
> festival, they bring in a whole tuna that is NOT flash frozen and cut it
up
> in front of the crowd (I have photos).
> I would check with them- I'm sure they would be able to answer you.
>

That's right..last year they cut up a mediterranean Bluefin.
BTW...this years Maguro Festival is either this or next weekend.