Does this look like good quality blue fin tuna?


I’m assuming it is otoro. It is from Tokyo Central grocery store and was $20. It was delicious, but just curious if it looks decent to more experienced sushi eaters. It was a bit more pale in color than what is shown through this photo.

by BigSad-O_O-

32 comments
  1. It’s not a premium part of the fish – at the omakase place I’ve worked at, that will get chopped up or used for a roll. But for a grab and go sushi – a bluefin tuna will be utilized as a nigiri to maximize their cost.

  2. looks good enough for me, but sure most the snobs here will piss in ur cereal over it , just because, nah mate, that looks good, would deffo eat it with a smile.

  3. Bluefin tuna is what most sushi restaraunts are suppose to serve.

    Most instead do the cheaper option of yellowfin tuna. That being said I’m use to bluefin being darker a bit. This looks like it’s leaning towards the chutoro/otoro part of a tuna.

  4. The chutoro looks fine. The only thing that really bugs me is that wasabi packet…

  5. Been doing for a while now and worked at some upscale sushi restaurants in NYC. I.M.O looking at the color and marbling of the Chu-Toro it’s not the best, but for it being take out it looks decent.

  6. Bought a cut of this yesterday. It’s not premium, (relatively cheap with under 1000 Yen) but super tender and has a decent amount of fat. Personally a big fan but 20 USD is maybe a bit much.

  7. It’s fine.

    The quality of bluefin tuna is a GIGANTIC spectrum.

    Good to some people means properly handled and transported . To others it means bluefin caught by pole and line fishing only.

  8. Man, the comments here have made me lose faith in this subreddit. That’s clearly a summer yield of otoro/chutoro fatty belly. That’s some good shit, enjoy. Unsure if it’s bluefin/yellowfin/bigeye by the look but I’d guess bluefin.

  9. Idk about quality but I’d stuff it in my face and pr sure it’d taste good

  10. Is the cut the wrong way? The meat splits if you cut it on the wrong direction.

  11. The rice is a little messy, but this is some nice chu-toro. Good quality tuna all around.

  12. I mean it’s grocery store chutoro, but good quality grocery store chutoro

    Id eat

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