When you live in Alaska, you get spoiled when it comes to fresh fish. If you can smell it, you shouldn't eat it. We did have fish dishes now and then in Thailand - local river or lake caught, or farmed fish - but the idea of sushi or sashimi, which was readily available, just didn't seem appetizing at all. Not that far away from the ocean. So our first trip to Yamato Ya was a real treat.
As was the bike ride home. Cool is such a great concept after hot for so long.
As to odor, or lack thereof, the great fishing and fish cookery writer A. J. McClane wrote, in his 1977 _Encyclopedia of Fish Cookery_, wrote, on the subject of fish freshness, "it will have a clean, often cucumber-like odor."
ReplyDeleteI'v found that to be the most accurate description of what a fresh-caught, oceanic fish should smell like.
I thought about 'no smell' since everything has some smell. This helps. I, of course, meant no 'fishy' smell.
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