The best fish ever was fresh mahi-mahi sashimi prepared by a trained Japanese sushi chef within hours after it was caught. I was totally not prepared to eat it, let alone like it. It was heavenly and tasted exactly like rare beef tenderloin.
By the way, the chef’s wife was a lab tech who worked with infectious diseases and she would not have eaten it or encouraged others to do so if she was the least bit concerned.
I prefer sashimi to sushi. Just not that into the nori.
That mahi sashimi sounds awesome…never had that. A couple months ago I did have the best tuna I’ve ever had, and I’ve had great tuna sashimi (tekka don) hundreds of times. The restauranteur who served it has been buying fresh seafood for 40 years, and said it was the most amazing fish he’s ever bought for his places. I can’t even describe how it tasted.
My wife’s not into rice, she took some “training” to make the leap from sashimi to sushi. Nori is kind of weird stuff, most of the rolls we get don’t have it.