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"Peter Aitken" > wrote:

> "sf" > wrote in message
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> > Sashimi is a type of sushi.
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> Not so. Sushi refers to the vinegared rice - the other ingredients can be
> almost anything including eggs, vegetables, seaweed, pickles, and cooked or
> raw fish. Sashimi is raw seafood served by itself (no rice).

According to my Japanese dictionary, sashimi is fresh meat eaten raw,
thinly cut, with soy sauce (or other).
It is mostly seafood, but not only. There is basashi (sashimi of horse
meat) and I think I saw once beef carpaccio referred to as sashimi too.

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