estebanana -> RE: Building two under influence of a 1973 Sobrinos de Esteso (Nov. 19 2020 23:52:32)
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On the yellowtail- Australia they call them kingfish, in Japan there are four names, hamachi, buri, hiramasa and sometimes Buri no ko- mainly there’s the difference between the Buri and the Hamachi, same fish only different age. Buri is a full grown yellowtail that usually reaches one meter or so. Hamachi is the same fish but between 12” and about 20” - there is a bit of difference in how the flesh looks and feels that makes the younger ones better for sushi. Buri is usually cut and served as sashimi, but hamachi is better for nigiri sushi 🍣 Hiramasa is a larger than one meter Buri, but some people tell me it’s a subspecies, I’ve not been able to confirm this yet. Buri no ko, that’s the ovaries full of eggs, which are quite tasty if you catch a female. Small Hamachi under 12” you could also call Buri no ko, ko means child, child of the Buri, but unless you were looking right at it while you said it probably people would think you meant ovary. But language is elastic, even Japanese is elastic despite a Japanese person telling you it doesn’t stretch. In California they call it all yellowtail, big ones and small ones, and most people confuse Buri with Hamachi at the fish market. Asking for hamachi when clearly the yellowtail in the ice is a meter long. The butcher doesn’t know the difference either because he doesn’t understand fish. When I visited home in 2016 I wanted to cook a fish for some friends, we scoured the Bay Area for a fish counter were the product was not a week dead with grey gills and cloudy eyes. Finally the Berkeley Bowl supermarket had a passable fish counter. I remember gandering at a large Buri on the ice and some yuppie hipster says to the fish man, “give me a pound of that yellowtail hamachi”. Being the snob that I am, I turned to my friend held my arms a meter wide and said, this is a buri, and moved them two feet apart and said this is hamachi. But my explication wasn’t well received by the lady standing in line next to me because as I gestured out to make the meter wide distance she moved and the back of my hand landed square on the front of her right tit. She scowled, I apologized, she re scowled. It just goes to show you, language is elastic.
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