sour cod semen

Skidder · 10 Feb 2012 at 13:26

I just got back from Japan and had mostly very good food experiences. I did try some sour cod semen sashami and was not that impressed with it. The texture was unpleasant and it was bland. This is how it looked:

Anybody else had anything interesting / unpleasant / unexpected recently?

Skidder · 10 Feb 2012 at 13:33

Gilly said:
It doesn't look like sashimi anyway, because that's sliced raw fish.

sashimi as in raw, they offered it exactly as in that pic, which is what we had, or fried and the translation was the restaurants rather than mine (but most translation in Japan was pretty novel)

it did get that picture through a good image search for exactly that

Skidder · 10 Feb 2012 at 13:36

seems that milt is the right term: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/12/steamed-fried-cod-milt-kiku-shirako-tachi-recipes.html

pretty sure it was the sperm rather than the sack

Skidder · 10 Feb 2012 at 13:42

Which sack pic?

If you put cod sperm in google it pretty much all looks like that

Mountain oysters should at least be meaty

Skidder · 10 Feb 2012 at 13:50

I think it is sperm sacks like fish have egg sacks rather than it being fish nuts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt

It sort of mushes to nothing if you squish it.

Although thinking about it, it would be easier to remove the glands and serve those rather than get the fish to tip it

Skidder · 10 Feb 2012 at 13:56

You're right(ish)

Skidder · 10 Feb 2012 at 14:30

FNGsam said:
You are all forgetting to put 'no homo' at the end of your posts!

Also was it tasty OP?

It was pretty bland to be honest and the texture was grim. Rest of the meal was much nicer (various sashimi, salads, yakitori etc.)

Skidder · 10 Feb 2012 at 14:39

FNGsam said:
Would you recommend trying it though? One of my favourite parts about travelling is trying all the different local cuisines!

Yeah, why not, it was an experience. I suspect fried may be more interesting.