Fish - a Japanese Obsession

BBC 4? I'm looking for this on iPlayer on my iPod, but I can't find it. :(

Edit: I'm aware it's on the front page on the PC version, but I'm after the iPod version. Is there any quicklink way of getting to it?
 
MeatLoaf said:
It was a good show but it was sad to see those puffer fish at the end. Even after being skinned and half thier head being cut away they were still alive and wriggling in that pan
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You missed the finely sliced fish at the family restaurant?
The fish could see its own flesh ripped to shreds in front of it, fish curled up staring, the british bloke nrly **** himself when the fish proceeded to move. theyve just got a different take on stuff to us, to them the freshness is important and what else says fresh than when its still moving.

That Aki guy just didnt care did he... Raw shrimp, rip, nom nom.
altho he didnt seem to keen on the fermented sushi, which tbh sounds a little rancid ;)
The other thing I remember hearing of was the same sort of things but eggs that were buried in sand for x amount of time, cant remember what that was called.

Ah here we go
http://july.fixedreference.org/en/20040724/wikipedia/Fermented_egg

Id never realised that tunas could get so damn big.
Or that Koi could cost that much :eek:

The fugu section was interesting, I never knew that was why they were poisonous, makes sense really.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I quite like that, the egg white goes into a kind of black solid jelly when you boil it (I have never eaten it scrambled), you MOST likely to have it in a rice congee for breakfast. It doesn't smell nor have any strong taste. It's like eating jelly for the egg white (which is now black) and the yoke still have the same texture..
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Best served with pickled ginger....
 
Raymond Lin said:
I quite like that, the egg white goes into a kind of black solid jelly when you boil it (I have never eaten it scrambled), you MOST likely to have it in a rice congee for breakfast. It doesn't smell nor have any strong taste. It's like eating jelly for the egg white (which is now black) and the yoke still have the same texture..
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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
 
~Divine~Wind~ said:
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
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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.
 
thanks for the heads up, must watch this as I love Japan. Was having lunch in a little local sushi cafe place there once and was biting into my shrimp/rice bit of sushi not realising that underneath the shrimp it was laced with a nice dollop of wasabi :)

Although being more of a meat man you can't beat a decent Yakiniku place, lovely stuff.
 
that was very good and interesting! cheers for the heads up :)

i love sushi, sashimi, etc.
the best one i've had was in brazil. it's all about the freshness of the produce..

but OMG how fat was that dude at the carp place?! all i could think about was how tf he even got to japan in the first place!
 
Raymond Lin said:
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.
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Surely there are better places than that. Come on, I'm off to hongkong in few days, I demand tips for amazing dining places :cool:
 
bum said:
Surely there are better places than that. Come on, I'm off to hongkong in few days, I demand tips for amazing dining places :cool:
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Eat anywhere and everywhere where there's not a sight of western tourist. Be it a hawker seller next to the highway or a canteen diner packed full of old man reading papers eating egg tarts.
 
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