Why didn’t anyone tell me that eel is the best tasting fish ever
>>21620204Because the entire world is a simulation for testing what you personally can discover on your own. Everyone other than you is an NPC. You will be freed when you die.
>>21620204I love the idea of eating eel but so few restaurants have it on their menu desu
>>21620204You didn’t ask, you fucking NPC. Life must be a fucking struggle for you.
>>21620204Is it something you can get at Japanese restaurants? There’s a lot around me
>>21620204Ever had jellied eels?You’d think again.
>>21620279in my experience, you have to go to the slightly fancier ones.i went to 7-8 sushi places and only 1 had it
You like the sweet BBQ sauce, not so much the actual eel
>>21620380I've never been to a sushi place that didn't have it
>>21620380Flyover shithole dweller detected
>>21620204>literally thing japanWe've been running around with hot eel pie in our coat pockets for centuries mate
>>21620204>covered in sauce
As a conservationist I avoid it because it's overfished but I'll make an exception to that on hot summer days when it's considered tradition to bring you health
>>21620422it's all farmed because it's already practically extinct in the wild
>>21620212This is somewhat accurate albeit poorly stated and colored with a tinge of fear-based belief systems
>>21620505Huh, I thought farming it wasn't cost-effective, but apparently it's blown up in the past few yearsThanks for bringing me back in the loop
Eh, tasted like pretty mid white fish to me
>>21620204It's a very tough meat that you can do a lot to without it falling apart and it's still chewy. I don't think it is particularly nutritious though. To this day nobody has ever seen eels reproduce. In ancient times it was thought eels materialized from nothingness. Apparently all eels travel to the same part of the ocean to reproduce but we have not found the location or seen them mate yet. We are not even sure if eels have eggs, I think, but we are pretty sure they must. As you approach the area we believe eels reproduce eela get younger and younger as you go, almost as if they spread out further from their origin the older they get. Quite lovecraftian.
>>21620396>>21620421The texture and flavor are nice. It isn't just the sauce.
I used to live in New York and there was this great Japanese restaurant smack-dab in the middle of Midtown that served barbecued unagi over a bed of white rice. Absolutely delicious, I'd get it all the time. Staffed by actual Japanese people, too, they were always very polite.
>>21620204I love smoked eel for Christmas. Absolute special.
>>21620204i told you it's the reel deel
>>21620396He likes the bbc sauce and the 12 inch long black eels that produce it
>>21620546I thought this was bullshit but looked in to it and it checks out. That is very interesting, thanks for dropping this info here. The sea still has many mysteries....
>>21620664I went to a hibachi place in Washington that had this, it came in a fancy bowl and they called it unadon. Bigass eel filets on a bed of steamed rice, it was absolutely delicious
>>21620204I dunno about eel by itself, but grilled eel with eel sauce is magical.
>>21620546Old "information". The lifecycle of the freshwater eel is pretty well understood, now. Largely in that it's got just about the most complicated lifecycle, at least of any vertebrate, that we know. There are many, at one time thought, salt and fresh water species of eel that are in fact just metamorphic steps in the lifecycle of the eel. It's pretty crazy.
>>21620212PS what we call blue is actually what you think is redWe were just fucking with you
>>21620204Had eel for the first time in a bibimbap at a Korean restaurant. I liked it, reminded me of a miniature fillet of cod in texture but with a lot more of a fishy and oily flavour. It did repeat on my after, where the fishy flavour wasn’t so good.
>>21620380What the other guy said you must live in a complete flyover shithole I have quite literally never been to a sushi place that didn't have it in the 1000 times i've went out for sushi
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>>21620546You are so full of shite.
>>21620510Too many pseud NPCs in this simulation.
>>21620204You just like the sweet sugary shoyu sauce. Eel itself is pretty disgusting.Try just cooking an eel fillet in butter with salt, pepper & lemon, as you would other fish. It is overwhelmingly fishy and has the aroma of putrid oil.Every cuisine that utilizes eel has a strong transformative sauce or multi-step preparation process just to make it edible.
>>21622571and?the sauce by itself wouldn't do either
>>21620212Pft, yeah, like I'm gonna believe an NPC!
>>21620204I did tell you that, but you just laughed at me
>>21620204All my friends love this shit, but I think it's pretty meh. They always order a ton when we go out to sushi. I'm not a huge fan of any of the cooked stuff though. They always get tons of baked salmon too. I pretty much stick to maki and nigiri, maybe a couple hand rolls.
>>21620396is this an american thing? lolI've had fried and grilled eel, usually just lightly salted, and I still fucking love itthe texture is amazing and it has way less of that lingering fishiness that puts me off of most seafood
>>21620299>>21623475Everything the Brits do turns to shit. They can’t even do toast properly.
>>21620212Are you le big black red pill man?
>>21621384>unadoneel bowleel: unagibowl of rice: donburi
>>21620204I fucking love eel but it's such a ripoff to buy in the states. You spend $20-30 for eel at a restaurant and you only get a few pieces. It's still on the more expensive side in Japan, but you get your money's worth portion-wise.
>>21620415>>21621824The people who denounce flyover states are also the ones who keep moving to them from their cities. What gives?
>>21624500i think you're conflating different groups of people.and ignoring that there are plenty of flyovers who move into the cities, too.
>>21624657I live in a flyover My neighbor is one of the larger Japanese fish importers in the country, he supplies restaurants all over a couple of time zonesPeople living in this state who were born in other states now outnumber people born in-stateIt's pretty unidirectional
>>21624666cool, one subjective experience. thanks.
>>21621413Okay I was typing it and i felt like fresh water eels might be different but thought maybe they travelled in land like salmon or something
inland*
>>21624657>and ignoring that there are plenty of flyovers who move into the cities, too.And, I am a Miami native, but exactly 5 of my senior class of 1100 still lives in that exact neighborhood. Part of it is that the remaining people got out during covid when their properties skyrockets in value, but also to get out of condensed cities where you can die of covid faster. I do think you're wrong. If you look up the DMV stats in Florida, they know that everyone is moving states from the northeast to Florida. It's easily proven that people are leaving the cities for the burbs, but also to states without insane taxes or policies.
>>21624671I don't live subjectively in a state where most of the people here moved from California or New York
I like these a lot, but I don't see eel rolls available around me anymore :(
>>21620927Is it chang hours already?
>>21620204Because I want it all for myself. Even the eel at OK-tier Chinese buffets is great, I've been meaning to go to one for this exact reason but I've been so damn busy recently.
>>21620204I was talking to a coworker, mentioning how I love all types of seafood, and brought up my love of eel. He stated he had never tried it and asked what it tastes like. I realized I have a hard time describing the flavor lol. I said gamey, sweet and salty and umami, piquant, and seafood-y. That is the best flavor I could attribute. It is so interesting.
