First of all, just to clarify,
sushi
isn’t raw fish. In fact, all it has to include is rice; from there it
can have a number of different toppings (including vegetables, cooked or
uncooked meat, etc.)
Sashimi
is the delicacy consisting of various raw seafoods. As it turns out, this
means that my first sushi experience wasn’t actually my first, as I’ve had
sushi many times in Korean restaurants. It was, however, my first sashimi
(raw seafood) experience, and it was quite the way to get started.
So, my buddy took me to Sushi Sennin in Manhattan, which turns out to be the
fourth best sushi restaurant in the world, and the best in New York. I had
many foods that were firsts for me, including
kobe beef, octopus, eel, caviar (beluga), and what I believed to be
wasabi.
In what turned out to be yet another bit of interesting trivia, very few
people in the world have ever had wasabi. The vast majority (if not
all) restaurants in both the United States and Japan serve
fake wasabi to those that order it. This is even true in the very
best restaurants such as the one that I was in. The only way to get real
wasabi to 1) be in a very high class sushi place, and 2) ask for “fresh
wasabi”. If you haven’t satisfied those two requirements you’ve likely never
had wasabi at all.
Anyway, we ordered two chef specials that included around a dozen pieces of
sashimi, octopus, ginger slices, a couple of sushi rolls, a kobe beef
appetizer, and a bottle of excellent saki. My buddy is doing quite well and
picked up the bill for right under $600. It was a great way to get try
sushi sashimi for the
first time. Very cool indeed.
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