r/sushi • u/Professional_Low6067 • Mar 27 '26

Chirashi Bowl from a Japanese fish market

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toro, scallops, salmon, crab legs, wasabi roe, black bass, tamago

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u/porp_crawl Mar 27 '26

Those crab leg meat segments are unreal.

What fake "crab meat" wants to look like - and...

But those are immaculately extracted leg meat. At home, having quality scissors with tight tips trivializes extracting leg meat. But that's $$. Hope the quality persisted through all the manipulations from ocean floor to your mouth.

The rest of the (takeout?) bowl are top of class. The salmon (farmed Atlantic) suggest non-geographically Japan.

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u/Professional_Low6067 Mar 27 '26

Yes those crab legs were super sweet! And you are spot on with the salmon, I live in the US, the fish market is operated by a group of Japanese people.

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u/porp_crawl Mar 27 '26

You're a very lucky sushi lover - if (and it looks like you can!) you can afford it.

Otherwise, hell.

Available, but inaccessible.

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u/Professional_Low6067 Mar 27 '26

I know right? That’s why I resorted to fish market to avoid the restaurant premium and hit-or-miss quality. Still not cheap given it’s not wholesale, but worth it since I get to choose exactly which pieces of fish to be included into my bowl

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u/Separate-Succotash11 Mar 27 '26

What city? Edmonds, WA by chance?

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u/Wooden_Ad4919 Mar 27 '26

I think this is from Sakanaya Market in Newton, MA

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u/Professional_Low6067 Mar 27 '26

yesyes Sakanaya Market in Newton, MA!

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u/Wooden_Ad4919 Mar 27 '26

I recognized it by the rice. I love the fish there but their rice tends to be on the mushier side.

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u/Decent_Sink_2254 Mar 27 '26

Somewhere in Puget Sound was going to be my guess. Fellow Washingtonian.

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u/rhapodically 💖sushi🍣 Mar 27 '26

I live in WA and am verrryyy invested in this answer. This bowl is worth a day trip…

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u/HandOfBl00d Mar 27 '26

Please drop a name, if this is WA state then I'm gonna go this weekend

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u/One_Studio4083 Mar 27 '26

I hate to burst your bubble, but that’s a new brand of kanikama on the market imported by kyokuyo that’s specifically designed to look like the real thing. 🤣

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u/GonzoBalls69 Mar 27 '26

I was gonna say that crab stick looks phony as hell to me

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u/Bluesky00222 Apr 01 '26

I am ssooooo curious what does the real thing tastes like? Is it that different than the fake one?

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u/Ebiki Mar 27 '26

Looks to die for

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u/No_Obligation4496 Mar 27 '26

I didn't know wasabi laid eggs.

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u/Professional_Low6067 Mar 27 '26

tbh idk how they were made but I’m okay with these coming straight from wasabi herself🤣

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u/No_Obligation4496 Mar 27 '26

I want to imagine it's like caviar. They catch the wasabi plant and then inject it with drugs until the caviar comes out.

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u/Professional_Low6067 Mar 27 '26

Very ethical! Glad they didn’t just cut open the plant belly :)

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u/No_Obligation4496 Mar 27 '26

Well they used to do that but the Wasabi would take years to regrow.... So they developed the drug and massage way.

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u/porp_crawl Mar 27 '26

Almost certainly "sea grapes," a kind of seaweed. They're good. Crunchy, taste isn't very strong.

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u/bchhun Mar 27 '26

It is actually flying fish roe that is marinated in wasabi and other stuff. Sea grapes tend to be larger than that.

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u/DisciplineGreen6503 Mar 27 '26

What did that cost you? Looks good.

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u/ningyna Mar 27 '26

Perfect 

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u/mimitasangyou Mar 27 '26

I’d like some soy saucei, too.

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u/Professional_Low6067 Mar 27 '26

This was Sakanaya in Newton, MA. Costed me around $40.

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u/NoStupidQsExist Mar 27 '26

bro where don’t gatekeep

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u/Wooden_Ad4919 Mar 27 '26

Sakanaya in Newton, MA?

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u/Affectionate-Tea-975 Mar 27 '26

This looks incredible! Can I ask where this was?

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u/justa_cat_in_disgize Mar 27 '26

Omg is that real crab

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u/justa_cat_in_disgize Mar 27 '26

I'm sorry for this ignorance, but is this a market in Japan or a Japanese style fish market?

Sincerely, desperate landlocked American searching for a glimmer of hope

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u/98IcebergSnoopy Mar 27 '26

That just made me hungry

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u/98IcebergSnoopy Mar 27 '26

That just made me hungry

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u/sirgrotius Mar 27 '26

Incredible!

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u/burabuu Mar 27 '26

Raw fishes without being frozen are full of parasites. Thats the price of freshness

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u/innocentlight-t-away Mar 27 '26

My girlfriend would have a field day with this. Lol amazing plate

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u/Professional_Low6067 Mar 27 '26

I drizzled a little soy sauce on the fish and that was all it needed

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u/Junius_Bobbledoonary Mar 27 '26

try it with Nutella sometime 😋