Comments on: Tuna Tataki http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tuna-tataki Home cooked goodness Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:48:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rahmeleon http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/comment-page-1/#comment-7102 rahmeleon Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:51:16 +0000 http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/#comment-7102 yo Made this on sunday arvo for lunch with a couple sashimi grade tuna steaks we found at dianella plaza fish monger. we instead covered the steak with ground pepper. and made a dipping sauce out of peanut oil, sesame oil, light soy sauce, garlic and ginger. sensational. however only thing i wish to point out is that you do need to sear it and not cook it. we let it stay a little too long on one of the steaks and it became more flaky and less steaky. cheers ben yo

Made this on sunday arvo for lunch with a couple sashimi grade tuna steaks we found at dianella plaza fish monger.

we instead covered the steak with ground pepper. and made a dipping sauce out of peanut oil, sesame oil, light soy sauce, garlic and ginger.

sensational. however only thing i wish to point out is that you do need to sear it and not cook it. we let it stay a little too long on one of the steaks and it became more flaky and less steaky.

cheers

ben

]]> By: PS http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/comment-page-1/#comment-6052 PS Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:55:37 +0000 http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/#comment-6052 Peggy, the bigger fishmonger at the Belconnen fishmarkets is a reasonably reliable choice for sashimi grade tuna, kingfish and a few other treats (like sea urchins, turban shells, decent clams, etc). I'm a fussy buyer (lived in Japan in 1997 and 1998) and if I'm not convinced by the shine and texture of the sashimi material, I skip it until there's something good enough. They've also been fine to fillet good boat-fresh gear for me at times that I'll sort out myself into sashimi, sushi, carpaccio or acid-cured fish dishes. Peggy, the bigger fishmonger at the Belconnen fishmarkets is a reasonably reliable choice for sashimi grade tuna, kingfish and a few other treats (like sea urchins, turban shells, decent clams, etc). I’m a fussy buyer (lived in Japan in 1997 and 1998) and if I’m not convinced by the shine and texture of the sashimi material, I skip it until there’s something good enough. They’ve also been fine to fillet good boat-fresh gear for me at times that I’ll sort out myself into sashimi, sushi, carpaccio or acid-cured fish dishes.

]]> By: Peggy http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/comment-page-1/#comment-5944 Peggy Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:23:36 +0000 http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/#comment-5944 Sigh, our family came to Australia (Canberra) after four years in Japan, and reading this recipe made me so nostalgic for Japan. We have not eaten much raw fish since our arrival here as I am too much a worrier that it won't be really fresh and safe to eat. Tuna or salmon in Japan was caught in the morning and sold by the end of the day. We had sashimi several times a week and the cost hardly put a dent in our wallets. Here, I spend more on fish than on meat (we're a family of five with three teen-aged boys), and usually only my husband and I eat the fish (enough for three meals) compared to the meat (enough for five meals for four persons)...maybe fish is cheaper around the coasts, but inland, it's worth its weight in gold! We like sashimi with rice, a bit of soya and wasabi dipping sauce, and tucked into a sheet of Korean (not Japanese) dry seaweed. Korean seaweed is a bit oily and salty - very good with fish and rice. Sigh, our family came to Australia (Canberra) after four years in Japan, and reading this recipe made me so nostalgic for Japan. We have not eaten much raw fish since our arrival here as I am too much a worrier that it won’t be really fresh and safe to eat. Tuna or salmon in Japan was caught in the morning and sold by the end of the day. We had sashimi several times a week and the cost hardly put a dent in our wallets. Here, I spend more on fish than on meat (we’re a family of five with three teen-aged boys), and usually only my husband and I eat the fish (enough for three meals) compared to the meat (enough for five meals for four persons)…maybe fish is cheaper around the coasts, but inland, it’s worth its weight in gold! We like sashimi with rice, a bit of soya and wasabi dipping sauce, and tucked into a sheet of Korean (not Japanese) dry seaweed. Korean seaweed is a bit oily and salty – very good with fish and rice.

]]> By: vanessa http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/comment-page-1/#comment-5782 vanessa Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:05:24 +0000 http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/#comment-5782 I made something very similar to yours...but with sashimi grade salmon instead (cheaper). Here's the link in case you are curious. http://vanessafrida.livejournal.com/113900.html I must give yours a shot :) thank you! vanessa (singapore) I made something very similar to yours…but with sashimi grade salmon instead (cheaper). Here’s the link in case you are curious. http://vanessafrida.livejournal.com/113900.html

I must give yours a shot :) thank you!

vanessa (singapore)

]]> By: Peter http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/comment-page-1/#comment-5768 Peter Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:11:51 +0000 http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/#comment-5768 Hi Matt. Nice one!!! You can't go wrong with a fine piece of sashimi. The flavours are so clean. I've always believed that there was something spiritual about eating this type of Japanese food. Anyway, just to let you know I've been reading your blog for a while, (ok..a few months) and I really enjoy it. You're quite entertaining and informative. I just started my own food blog/website. www.souvlakiforthesoul.com Check it out and would appreciate the feed back if you had the time. Cheers. Pete Hi Matt. Nice one!!! You can’t go wrong with a fine piece of sashimi. The flavours are so clean. I’ve always believed that there was something spiritual about eating this type of Japanese food. Anyway, just to let you know I’ve been reading your blog for a while, (ok..a few months) and I really enjoy it. You’re quite entertaining and informative. I just started my own food blog/website. http://www.souvlakiforthesoul.com Check it out and would appreciate the feed back if you had the time. Cheers. Pete

]]> By: hadrian.blaq http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/comment-page-1/#comment-5766 hadrian.blaq Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:07:18 +0000 http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/#comment-5766 Hey Matt, thanks for the heads up on a good fish shop close by. It is so hard to get decent, fresh, sashimi grade seafood here in Perth. So exasperating! My local fish shop at Mirrabooka has a fair variety of fish and seafood, but certainly not sashimi grade. Hey Matt, thanks for the heads up on a good fish shop close by. It is so hard to get decent, fresh, sashimi grade seafood here in Perth. So exasperating!

My local fish shop at Mirrabooka has a fair variety of fish and seafood, but certainly not sashimi grade.

]]> By: jean http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/comment-page-1/#comment-5761 jean Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:04:02 +0000 http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/#comment-5761 Ang's is pretty good - their crispy chicken is great (if consumed almost immediately) and their Hokkien noodle soup is pretty close to the real thing in Penang. They're usually closed Sundays but operate on a split during the week, Ang’s is pretty good – their crispy chicken is great (if consumed almost immediately) and their Hokkien noodle soup is pretty close to the real thing in Penang.

They’re usually closed Sundays but operate on a split during the week,

]]> By: Matt http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/comment-page-1/#comment-5760 Matt Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:34:38 +0000 http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/#comment-5760 Hey Edward, sounds like you're got trouble on your hands when that one gets big enough to eat you into debt... something my brothers and I were adept at in our younger days too. The tuna was around $9 or so for the piece you see on the cutting board... which weighed perhaps around 200gm's so still not cheap... but proximity and the option of getting it in large pieces still works for me. Cin, if I had been thinking enough I would have probably knocked up a little ponzu and eaten it with that... but I'd been hankering to make this tataki for a while... Jean: yeh it's a nice little shop. Do you mean Ang's Malaysian ? Is that place good ? It's always been shut every time I've thought about going, which admittedly hasn't been often. Neil: Interesting point, although I think the question is more about what people want to eat than to what extent a particular country raids the worlds fish stocks. I have wondered many times why we don't have a fish market in Perth of any size or variety, it's certainly not from lack of availability, but then looking at the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, I started to realise we simple don't value our seafood as much as they do. Still, you make a very valid point. Hey Edward, sounds like you’re got trouble on your hands when that one gets big enough to eat you into debt… something my brothers and I were adept at in our younger days too. The tuna was around $9 or so for the piece you see on the cutting board… which weighed perhaps around 200gm’s so still not cheap… but proximity and the option of getting it in large pieces still works for me.

Cin, if I had been thinking enough I would have probably knocked up a little ponzu and eaten it with that… but I’d been hankering to make this tataki for a while…

Jean: yeh it’s a nice little shop. Do you mean Ang’s Malaysian ? Is that place good ? It’s always been shut every time I’ve thought about going, which admittedly hasn’t been often.

Neil: Interesting point, although I think the question is more about what people want to eat than to what extent a particular country raids the worlds fish stocks. I have wondered many times why we don’t have a fish market in Perth of any size or variety, it’s certainly not from lack of availability, but then looking at the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, I started to realise we simple don’t value our seafood as much as they do. Still, you make a very valid point.

]]> By: neil http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/comment-page-1/#comment-5759 neil Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:14:20 +0000 http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/#comment-5759 I don't want to be mean to the Japanese, but when you said Sharon was bemoaning the variety of seafood available in Australia compared to Japan, perhaps we should think about why that's so. It was reported in the papers last year that the Japanese had been plundering our very own southern bluefin tuna stocks that are subject to a strict quota. How did they get around that? They said just trust us, you won't need to put an observer on the boat. If every nation on earth behaved like the Japanese or indeed liked fish as much as they do, there wouldn't be any wild fish left. I don’t want to be mean to the Japanese, but when you said Sharon was bemoaning the variety of seafood available in Australia compared to Japan, perhaps we should think about why that’s so. It was reported in the papers last year that the Japanese had been plundering our very own southern bluefin tuna stocks that are subject to a strict quota. How did they get around that? They said just trust us, you won’t need to put an observer on the boat. If every nation on earth behaved like the Japanese or indeed liked fish as much as they do, there wouldn’t be any wild fish left.

]]> By: jean http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/comment-page-1/#comment-5757 jean Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:13:22 +0000 http://abstractgourmet.com/2007/01/tuna-tataki/#comment-5757 Had seen the sign they have outside near the bus stop but never had a chance to go in and have a look (usually closed by the time I decide to stop at Ang's for tea). Now I know where else to get some fishy goodness :) What are the prices like? Had seen the sign they have outside near the bus stop but never had a chance to go in and have a look (usually closed by the time I decide to stop at Ang’s for tea). Now I know where else to get some fishy goodness :)

What are the prices like?

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