If you eat sushi, do you worry that the restaurant isn't giving you the fish they say they are?
The next time you order tuna at a sushi restaurant - watch out! - it may not be what you think it is. A team of scientists from Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History conducting a genetic research project found that more than half of tuna ordered from 31 restaurants were "misrepresented" or selling endangered southern bluefin tuna. Some samples were not tuna at all, but escolar, a fish with fatty flesh that could pass as tuna but can cause diarrhea when consumed. "A piece of tuna sushi has the potential to be an endangered species, a fraud or a health hazard," reports the authors. "All three of these cases were uncovered in this study."
if it tastes nice and doesn't make me ill that'll do
On Saturday 12/5/09 - 4:42:01 PM NarcoticNico wrote: I get the raw fish, but I usually only go to one place that does all the stuff in front of you. I my sushi train place.
surely they don't get the whole tuna out? so you couldn't tell the species very easily even if you knew the differences
and out of curiousity what is the first stage that you see? a big block of frozen fish about a foot long or so? that's what you often see in Korean when the chef comes out
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my sushi train place. 
