What is the fish in this sushi?

11 comments

1. It’s going to be very hard to pinpoint this because it’s partially cooked and there’s a lot of sauce on it. There’s a lot of fish that can look like this.

   I would recommend having them write down the name in Chinese and posting it here, that way someone who can read it can give you an exact identification.

2. Seared Saki????

3. Hard to tell with sauce in the way.

4. Looks like salmon belly

5. More info on the flavor/texture would be helpful. I see both orange colors and paler almost white colors. Is the flesh of the fish more white, and the orange is because of the sauce? Or is the flesh itself quite orange? The skin looks like it has been torched (aburi), is that accurate? My best guess, based on the appearance of the skin, is some type of snapper. Golden eye snapper (kinmedai) might be my top guess. Here are some pictures of aburi kinmedai nigiri:

   [http://www.sushigirl.nyc/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1050.SushiDojo.03.jpg](http://www.sushigirl.nyc/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1050.SushiDojo.03.jpg)

   [https://www.instagram.com/p/CfLf7KhOfXj/](https://www.instagram.com/p/CfLf7KhOfXj/)

   [https://www.facebook.com/sushiryumy/photos/love-this-aburi-pieceskin-torched-over-bincho-charcoal-making-this-kinmedai-sush/371139336962224/](https://www.facebook.com/sushiryumy/photos/love-this-aburi-pieceskin-torched-over-bincho-charcoal-making-this-kinmedai-sush/371139336962224/)

6. most likely salmon belly. a lot of salmon belly has a lil bit of the skin that they torch. my job does that for salmon belly. and if it’s regular salmon nigiri, usually no skin

7. So I went back and asked the seller but I still didn’t understand, but I got lucky because one of their customers translated it for me and said “aburi”

8. Ocean trout is another possibility I’ll toss out.

9. Looks like Salmon that was blowtorched and drenched in sauce.

10. https://youtu.be/Dc_dZ-fDNyo?t=140

11. I say salmon