how is eel usually served at a sushi restaurant? Warm or Cold?

Answer 1

Before it is broiled for sushi, the unagi is cooked in a sweet sauce of sugar, rice wine, soya sauce , seaweed broth, seasonings and then cooled for the finishing at the sushi bar and it has a sweet reduced sauce from the cooking liquid brushed on it. Most palce have a small toaster oven to finish it for sushi making.

Unagi (Eel) is very soft and normally oily, the ones used in Japan are sea type, the pike eels from the freshwater streams are to boney and small, I am a former chef and worked in Japan and we had a sushi bar in the CP Hotel I worked at in 1980's.

Here in Canada they trap them in the St Lawrence river, any found in the US come from the west or east coasts and are caught when spawning in fresh water, they have baskets they swim in like lobster cage traps.

Answer 2

eel (unagi) is usually served warm (broiled) and glazed with unagi sauce which is similar to terriyaki sauce. A sushi chef made it a point to tell me it wasn't teriyaki sauce, but unagi sauce.

Answer 3

Yeah, I love unagi when bbq over a grill as street food. Yum! They are great when its in season. I also love Anago too! Yum.

Answer 4

if you get eel sashimi it is cold, sushi is warm

Answer 5

bbq its really good unagi i think its called. sometimes it can be cold but most of the time its warm its really good sometimes they're called dragon rolls

Answer 6

warm with teriyaki sauce. very yummy. It is called unagi

Answer 7

Warm.
Tried it once, it was pretty good, but it ws eel. ;)

Answer 8

Grilled, so - warm.