Do you know what Sashimi is?!
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Japanese dish consisting of very thin bite-size slices of fresh raw fish, traditionally served with soy sauce and wasabi.
Etymology
sliced raw fish...preferably salmon..
dipped in sauce...
thinly sliced raw fish. love it.
Basically raw seafood
Very fresh raw seafood
Sashimi is a Japanese word for those rolled raw fish that you find from the store.
Just eat it, it is better not to know what it is really
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Salt water fish, thinly sliced.
Sashimi is raw saltwater fish (not freshwater), and it's thinly sliced
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Sashimi (Japanese: 刺身) is a Japanese delicacy primarily consisting of very fresh raw seafoods, sliced into thin pieces about 2.5cm (1.0in.) wide by 4.0cm (1.5in.) long by 0.5 cm (0.25in.) thick, but dimensions vary depending on the type of item and chef, and served with only a dipping sauce (soy sauce with wasabi paste and thin-sliced ginger root or ponzu), and a simple garnish such as shiso and shredded daikon radish.
The word sashimi means "pierced body", i.e. "刺身 = sashimi = 刺し = sashi (pierced, sticked) and 身 = mi (body, meat), may derive from the culinary practice of sticking the fish's tail and fin to the slices in identifying the fish being eaten.
One possibility of the name "pierced body" could come from the traditional method of harvesting. 'Sashimi Grade' fish is caught by individual handline, and as soon as the fish is landed, its brain is pierced with a sharp spike, killing it instantly, then placed in slurried ice. This spiking is called the Ike jime Process. Because the flesh thus contains minimal lactic acid from the fish dying slowly, it will keep fresh on ice for about 10 days without turning white, or otherwise degrading.[citation needed]
The word sashimi has been integrated to the English language and is often used to refer to other uncooked fish preparations besides the traditional Japanese dish subject of this article.
Sashimi is thinly sliced, raw seafood. Many different kinds of fish (and other types of seafood) are served raw in the Japanese cuisine. Of course, the fish has to be as fresh as possible. Sashimi can be eaten just as sashimi or as nigiri zushi, in which case the sashimi piece is put on top of a small ball of sushi rice.
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Sashimi is a Japanese delicacy primarily consisting of very fresh raw seafoods, sliced into thin pieces about 2.5cm (1.0in.) wide by 4.0cm (1.5in.) long by 0.5 cm (0.25in.) thick, but dimensions vary depending on the type of item and chef, and served with only a dipping sauce (soy sauce with wasabi paste and thin-sliced ginger root or ponzu), and a simple garnish such as shiso and shredded daikon radish.
raw salmon cut into very thin slices
And I'll just add to what everyone else said by mentioning that it doesn't have to be seafood. I've had chicken sashimi (called torizashi), cow sashimi (gyuusashi), horse sashimi (basashi) and deer (shikasashi). Many places have their own specialty animal they like to serve raw. Kagoshima (north of Okinawa) has chicken and deer as their specialty dish. Kumamoto (north of Kagoshima) is famous for horse. Sooooo good!! Chicken is my favorite!
Fresh and thinly sliced meat, fish, seafood or basically anything that is served raw Japaneses style is called sashimi. We can have sashimi tuna, abalone, cuttlefish etc.
Sashimi is always served with soy sauce with wasabi (Japanese mustard), green in colour. Also served with some very thinly shredded radish and at times prawn roes (ebiko) as garnishing.