Mystery sushi

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SUPER YUMMY! Maezawa beef at school lunch
The famous quality beef, Maezawa beef, was served at school lunch in Oshu city. Kids were delighted at the beef saying "Super yummy. Super soft."

The price was 630JPY, about 5USD/50gram.

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Anohito said:

While working on my diary, I encountered a passage that still has me stumped:

"They had a new type of sushi, which was bright red (not maguro) and resembled meat more than fish. It tasted pretty good. I still couldn't tell what it was, though."

It also was not chū toro. Does anyone have any idea what this might be?

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Obeika said:

Does pipokun's reply make sense to you? I ask because I have seen a rather bright reddish colored, almost transluscent, sushi before. However it most definitely was maguro, a cheaper cut no less, but still maguro.

There are a few other "red" colored fish that are eaten as sushi, I am curious if you had a picture or not.

There is like pipokun wrote beef, or even horse meat sushi as well which are both fairly red in color, but you should be able to tell the difference between fish or meat when eating them.

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Anohito said:

Sorry, I do not have a picture.
I'm certain that it was not beef. It was a rectangular slab, like a standard piece of fish used in nigiri sushi. It was not akagai, which I would have recognized. This was at Genroku Sushi, so it would not have been expensive horse meat (or even beef)! Perhaps it was the cheap maguro you mentioned. Or, maybe it was from a fish that had been frozen. Sometimes freezing fish can change the texture.
I guess it will just have to remain one of life's little mysteries!

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undrentide said:

I found a very interesting webpage, a huge collection of sushi.
寿司図鑑 第１集 | 市場魚貝類図鑑
寿司図鑑 第２集 | 市場魚貝類図鑑
寿司図鑑 第３集 | 市場魚貝類図鑑
寿司図鑑 第４集 | 市場魚貝類図鑑
寿司図鑑（寿司ネタ図鑑） 目次 | 市場魚貝類図鑑

Click 窶佚ｦxxﾅ?ﾂｪ on each page, and you can see five different nigirizushi with photo for each.

And here are some photos of different types of maguro.
鮪（マグロ）

Akami (red meat) of maguro from different kaiten-zushi (conveyer type of sushi-restaurants)
Maracas.net
Maracas.net
Maracas.net
Chuutoro
Maracas.net
Ootoro
Maracas.net

I didn't know there are so many of them...

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