On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Nathalie Chiva wrote:


>
> I assure you that when I eat sushi, the fish is raw, except for the
> shrimp. The restaurant ypou went to obviously doesn't want to deal
> with raw fish (has to be fresh of the day etc.) and does what my local
> supermarket does, serves "cooked fish sushi" (an oxymoron IMO).
>
> Nathalie in Switzerland
>
>

I think you are exactly right. We are not anywhere near a proper body of
water for fresh fish of this kind (or any kind, save catfish or crappie)
or even a supplier that delivers fresh fish. I don't even know of a
restaurant that serves fresh fish here.

I don't know much about raw fish, but I would think the liability to a
restaurant would increase dramatically over serving cooked fish. In a
small town like this they couldn't possibly sell enough on any one given
day to use all the fish fresh that they would need to have on hand - even
if they could get fresh fish.

I don't know if it was steamed, blanched, poached, or something else. I
saw Emeril "cook" some fish by making a marinade (with lemon juice?) and
just soaking it for a few minutes. It still looked "raw", but he kept
saying, "see how it is cooking?" Then he served it in some dish he had
billed as "raw" something or other. So, apparently, it was raw, but it was
cooked. Does that make sense? So maybe they aren't "cooking" it, but just
soaking it in something.

I really don't know. I wasn't eating it and didn't plan to, so I wasn't
real inquisitive. I tasted the shrimp one and the California Roll, but
didn't care for the clump of cold rice or the wasabi.

Elaine, too