Tired of tuna yet? I'm not. I could eat maguro and toro every day for a month. Okay, then I might need a little break because that's a lot of raw tuna, but I'd get back right on it, especially if you throw seared ahi into the mix and...shiro maguro.
"Shiro" translates into "white" in English. It's also called bincho maguro, but let's just focus on one thing at a time here. Shiro maguro is tuna, just like those ruby red tunas you see in the case, but the flesh is much much lighter, ranging from a pale peach to almost ivory white, thus the name "shiro."
Shiro maguro is one of my sister's favorite fish for sushi and she and I both get a little crazy when we see it on the menu or in the glass case. In sushi bars, it is often served as a specialty. Sometimes it is seared (like ahi), placed in its own special little dish, garnished with own special little sauce, and garnished with its own special chives. Now here's the thing. Shiro maguro is...albacore tuna. That's albacore tuna, as in the same stuff that Starkist slings in pull top cans at the supermarket!
An order of shiro maguro is $8. Eight dollars of albacore tuna could make tuna salad sandwiches for Mrs. Stanton's entire third grade class. For a week.
Eh. But you can't dip a tuna salad sandwich in soy sauce.
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11-18-2005 @ 5:58PM
drazin said...
"Eh. But you can't dip a tuna salad sandwich in soy sauce. "
you can, but it would be gross.
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11-18-2005 @ 6:00PM
Tony said...
I don't see why not? Spicy tuna rolls are made with mayo & get dipped into soy. I think it may work.
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11-18-2005 @ 10:27PM
U said...
I think that the bread would absorb too much of the soy sauce. Better would be to eat the sandwich, with a shot glass of a soy & wasabi mix to sip from between bites. That would result in a more consistent tuna to soy ratio.
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11-21-2005 @ 12:34AM
Tony said...
I don't see why not? Spicy tuna rolls are made with mayo & get dipped into soy. I think it may work.
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11-23-2005 @ 10:11PM
Jeshii said...
Funny you should say that, there was a Japanese TV program where this pair of guys had to eat an entire tuna, like one of those giant ones you see at the Tokyo fish market. Took them almost a month I think. So many ways to prepare it. They had this fried oo-toro that was just dripping with oil... Looked soooo good. Of course, lots of it, they just ate as sashimi.
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