When did you learn how to enjoy sashimi? This is a raw fish dish served in a sushi restaurant.?

Question

Sashimi is thinly sliced, raw seafood. Many different kinds of fish (and other types of seafood) are served raw in the Japanese cuisine. Of course, the fish has to be as fresh as possible. Sashimi can be eaten just as sashimi or as nigiri sushi, in which case the sashimi piece is put on top of a small ball of sushi rice.

Answer 1

It took me a long time to finally appreciate and enjoy sashimi. I remember the first time I saw someone eating sashimi; I was about 9 or 10, my grandmother ordered it, and she loved that stuff. I couldn't figure out how someone could enjoy eating raw meat, let alone fish.

As I got older, I slowly learned to appreciate the culture of food, rather than the food itself. When you're a kid in an Asian family, you get used to seeing weird foods, so after a few years of abalone, sharks fin, sea cucumber, bird's nest, and the like, raw fish can't be that bad. At around 14, I was willing to try any food once. I started to try sashimi in its many different forms and variations, different fish, different tastes. It was interesting to think that when you're a kid, fish is fish, but in sashimi, the fish is so important in giving a natural taste to your meal.

Then, when I started college, I was taking a girl out to dinner, and I figured sushi would be a great place. We both got the culinary lecture of a lifetime, as the sushi bar chef Kenji taught us everything he could about fish, the sashimi, technique, and taste. After a few bottles of beer and sake for the showman, Kenji gave us the one piece of sashimi that made me fall in love with sashimi: Maguro Toro. After Maguro Toro, I would eat sashimi as often as I could, although not being able to afford maguro toro was quite annoying. But sashimi is just one of those things I think people eventually learn that it is OK to eat, and once they try it and it suits their taste, they will love it.

Answer 2

:( I think I am the only one here who still does not appreciate or know how to appreciate sashimi. The only kind of sushi that actually tastes good to me is the barbequed eel with avocado, rice, and dried seaweed roll. Sashimi, to me, tastes very bland. The fish is rather void of any sweetness, tartness, or flavor. Dipping in soy sauce doesn't help much, just makes it salty, and wasabi is, to my taste, pungent and spicy.

And, I'm Korean.

Actually, come to think of it, there is a Korean dish similar to Bi Bim Bap that entails white rice, chopped fresh greens, julienned asian pear, slices of raw fluke, sesame seed, crushed laver, sesame seed oil, and hot pepper paste all tossed in a large bowl. The pear gives juicy sweetness, the rice adds substance, the fish adds a coolness and texture, the sesame seed oil gives the dish a deep aroma, and the hot pepper paste gives the dish that tang. It's absolutely delicious, and that is the only way I will eat raw fish.

Perhaps I'm just slow. I didn't learn to apprecate broccoli until I entered college, and it's only been a few years since I first tried sushi. Hopefully, one day, I, too, will be able to enjoy sashimi.

Answer 3

Probably about 9 or 10 when my japanese mom stuck some in front of me. Before that my brother and I used to love barbequed eel (used in unagi nigiri) and rice. Everyone should eat sushi/sashimi/bento. Banzai!

Answer 4

My uncle is Japanese American. I was maybe 12 or 13 when I ate it the first time. Gosh, I can still remember how good that first taste was. I wanna do a Homer Simpson 'Ummm. Sashimi. Gggh gggh gggh.'

Answer 5

I love Sashami! I don't like the rice, just raw sashimi

I live in LA and we have great sushi/sashimi here.

It is expensive but worth the price. It is also very healthy for you, it contains omega 3 fatty acids, which are great for you!

Answer 6

i dont fully understand what you mean by how. i tried it one day an i loved it. i will try any sushi as long as it isnt way to spicy like too much wasabbi. my preferred sushi is a spicy tuna roll with avacado. i will put a pea sized ammount of wassabi onit an dip it in soy sauce

Answer 7

In about 2002, I first ate it because there was nothing else to eat and its turns out I really started something special. I fell in love with japanese food.

Answer 8

i learn to enjoy it when i was 10 when i first tasted it. it was raw tuna and salmon. i could never forget the taste,it simply slips into ur throat and down to ur stomach. i will usually add soy sauce over it

Answer 9

since childhood, i believe . . . and i thank my wonderful grandmother for introducing such a delectable delight to me :)

Answer 10

ho ho ho , do i needs to taste it , that sushi.