What type of toro is this?

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1. Received this cut at a restaurant, too fatty for my taste. The sushi chef said it was toro, but I am curious what you all think? I’ve never seen toro like this before

2. It looks like pork???

3. The gas station type

4. blow-toro

5. 99% sure this is pork belly…

6. Looks like it was submerged in soy and torched. Looks very fatty . I love toro but only chu toro. Good balance between the fat and meat

7. It’s very far down the belly. These pieces are not usually served because it’s too fatty

8. Certain parts of the toro (belly portion of tuna closest to the skin) are extremely fatty and grisly. Also there’s a layer of pure fat right against the skin and it seems you got a portion of that too. Normally I remove the pure fat, and the super fatty meat I scrape away to make toro tartar. Adding scallions or finely diced takuan can help cut through the rich and fatty toro but it should not be used as sashimi or sushi. You could perhaps make small seared toro appetizers as the searing would help melt the fat.

   I hope you didn’t pay too much for that because that looks to me like a restaurant using you to offset food costs.

9. how’d it taste? i need to know