March 21, 2005
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Had lunch with Virgil and Jober at Echigo today. Tried the Loup de Mer (sea wolf) sushi. It was better as a cooked fish that Mixygirl had with Torosushi at Watergrill this weekend. Everything else was great as usual. Took Kapono to get his shots. There was a bigger puppy there with "kennel cough" (caused by bordetella bronchiseptica, pictured above). The dog was coughing a lot and then it hocked out a big puddle of phlegm. Needless to say, I didn't let Kapono have contact with it.
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mmm... mortadella sandwich...
I haven't had Echigo in over a year!! It's time to go back.... What was the texture of the Loup de Mer sushi like?
The texture was like halibut, or snapper, which I personally don't think taste as good in the sushi setting.
Japanese tai snapper sushi can be excellent. But it depends on what fish you're getting. I'm told that in most sushi restaurants, red snapper, if not mentioned as from Japan, is not the same as tai snapper that's prized in Japan. In fact around California, red snapper, rockfish, and rock cod are synonymous, and refer to a fish that is neither a snapper or a cod.
Is loup de mer the new "in-fish" for LA now? Maybe it'll replace john dory and branzini? I haven't seen it up here in SF. BTW, had a most excellent john dory at Wickets in Carmel Valley a couple weeks ago. What a great fish!
The Monterey Bay Aquarium warned us against eating certain fishes, most attention going to sharks, bluefin tuna, and monkfish. No more toro and ankimo.
Yeah, I've seen those "Seafood Watch" cards -- I don't particularly like monkfish flesh, but love the ankimo. Is it reasonable to believe that the flesh volumes are way above the liver volumes? No more Toro?!! I guess I'll have to rely on Hamachi belly then.
Not eat toro?! UNACCEPTABLE. That's almost insulting!
Not sure about monkfish liver/flesh volumes. The stuff you have at the sushi bar is already preprepared and stuffed in tubes, so I don't know how big a liver is. My guess is that one fish liver might be only like 3-4 cross sections. Ankimo is easy to give up when you think:
1) It's bad for you
2) It's the liver of a bottom feeder. Ewwwwww!
3) It's really ugly. You know the really ugly fish in the dark trench in Finding Nemo? Monkfish.
Maguro can come from yellowfin a.k.a. ahi (not as endangered), but toro is only from bluefin. You can still have shiro maguro toro. Albacore isn't endangered either. Someday they'll probably find a way to farm bluefins, since there's so much potential $$$ to get from it.
Sucks to be torosushi - she has to change her identity now, or Greenpeace will protest at her front door soon.
Let's throw black paint on Toro next time we see her!
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