Elaine Parrish wrote:
>
> I don't know who said what, so I clipped everybody's name (E,t <g>)
>>
>> > Example: I don't eat raw fish. I know that lots of people adore sushi
>> > bars, but I can't bring myself to try it.
>>
>
> I don't eat raw fish, either (I don't eat much fish of any kind).
>
> A friend of mine adores sushi and I like tempura well enough to get
> through an evening of her great company. I wasn't sure I was
> going enjoy sitting across the table from her, though. However, when her
> sushi plate came, there were two shrimp things (a cube of cold rice,
> shrimp on top, wrapped in a dark green weed [seaweed?}).
>
> Both the shrimp were pink. I didn't know enough about the other fish to
> know whether or not it was cooked. A little investigating proved that it
> was, too.
>
> Tee hee hee. All the folks that I know that were bragging about eating raw
> fish were either misinformed or just rattling everyone else's cage.
>
> Sashimi is the raw stuff and it isn't offered anywhere around here. But
> that hasn't stopped most of the people I know from talking about cool it
> is to eat "raw" fish. <g>
>
> The shrimp were very large and very good. It's the cold glob of rice and a
> huge weed ribbon I can't abide.
>
> Elaine, too
>

There are a few cooked items commonly found on a sushi plate, shrimp is one,
freshwater eel is another. You can get the shrimp raw, aba-emi, but I don't
like it and I think it's always overcooked so i avoid the shrimp altogether.

Did your friend only get shrimp? Or did she get a sushi plate that included
only cooked items? I'm confused about this. What kind of sushi restaurant only
serves cooked fish? Generally, when I go to get sushi I only get one cooked
piece, generally the eel. Most of the precooked things (tempura rolls,
california rolls) tend to be over-flavored and you miss out on the fresh, raw
flavor of a lot of the fish. Since I have a finite amount of room in my belly,
I'm going to focus on what I'm paying for, namely raw fish based sushi.

the fish or shrimp over a block of rice is called nigiri, raw fish alone is
sashimi, rolls are maki.

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