Fish - a Japanese Obsession

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Anyone caught this on BBC4 or iPlayer?

It's about a Writer/Fisherman who goes to Japan to understand their obsession with fish and take a closer to at their culture. I saw it last night and some of the things is WTF !

If anyone have any interest in Japan, I recommend it, more so if you like Sushi !
 
The bit in the hotel where Aki ordered these Giant Prawns off the net that arrived in a box of wooden chips and then tears the head off one and starts biting into the body really caught me off guard. I was at least expecting he to use a knife and take out that "poop shoot" down the center of the prawns first. But no.....with the shell still on it, he takes a bite !
 
I ate Sushi last night, it was fresh and delicious. It cost me Yen135 per dish. I had 5 dishes , but the bloke next to me had about 10. This Japanese lady told me that sushi in London isn't made with fresh fish, and that Japnese tastes far superior. I really like the octupus sushi.

The English don't eat much sushi and most wouldn't know a fresh fish if it slap them in the face so in a way the resturuants can get away with it.
 
Sushi is great, but good sushi is hard to find here.

Much easier to find good sushi in Hong Kong too, went into one call "Welcome". It's just a chain supermarket like our Tesco (not as big), and they had a Sushi Counter and behind it were 2 people working, making fresh sushi. You can buy individual ones 40p each, or these meal Bento Boxes (about £5) which you get twice as much as you do for the same money in M&S sushi meals for example.
 
Really?
would have thought it changed somewhat in texture, so does it still taste like egg?
So you still have to cook them after tehyve been fermented or w/e its called?
I assumed they hardened and were ready to go

Well, i've never cooked one.

The only time i have it is in that rice congee stuff, i assumed they boil it first. I am not surprise that they could be hardened when raw. I presume they would then slice it into little chunks and put it into the pot to cook.

It doesn't taste like an egg, not the egg white anyway. The black egg white now have a texture of really solid jelly, and the yoke still have the same crumple texture like an boiled egg but taste kinda smoked instead. Its not bitter or pungent in any way.

My sister loves the stuff, and she can't even eat sashimi.
 
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