Wasabi Roe?

[lram...@my-deja.com]

Hi, Sushi-Folk --

My husband and I were at Shogun in Macon, GA, (a really good place, BTW)
on Saturday night. As a garnish on a couple of hamachi pieces we found
some _green_ roe, the size and consistency of flying fish roe. It
tasted like wasabi! Now we know there's no such thing as a wasabi fish,
so where does this stuff come from? Is it a novelty item?

Leslie, curious
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[Chef]

> Now we know there's no such thing as a wasabi fish,
>so where does this stuff come from? Is it a novelty item?
>

I use this a lot on salmon canapes and smoked fish appetizers. It is simply
topiko flavored with wasabi. It makes a nice presentation when combined with
black, orange and red caviars. JE

"It riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave..."
The Moody Blues

[Dan Logcher]

Chef wrote:
>
> > Now we know there's no such thing as a wasabi fish,
> >so where does this stuff come from? Is it a novelty item?
> >
>
> I use this a lot on salmon canapes and smoked fish appetizers. It is simply
> topiko flavored with wasabi. It makes a nice presentation when combined with
> black, orange and red caviars. JE
>

Yes, I had a smoked salmon dish at Seasons in Boston that had two types
of flavored Tobiko. One was green wasabi flavor, the other I don't recall
but it wasn't straight up tobiko.

The green wasabi flavored tobiko can be ordered from www.sushifoods.com. It
is made by feeds the flying fish wasabi as they grow. I'm kidding, its just
added in for flavor (ever see that movie w/ Michael Keaton and Henry Winkler?).

--
Dan

[Lori Lee]

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:51:44 -0400, Dan Logcher
<dan@*xspam*i-kinetics.com> wrote:

>Chef wrote:
>>
>> > Now we know there's no such thing as a wasabi fish,
>> >so where does this stuff come from? Is it a novelty item?
>> >
>>
>> I use this a lot on salmon canapes and smoked fish appetizers. It is simply
>> topiko flavored with wasabi. It makes a nice presentation when combined with
>> black, orange and red caviars. JE
>>
>
>Yes, I had a smoked salmon dish at Seasons in Boston that had two types
>of flavored Tobiko. One was green wasabi flavor, the other I don't recall
>but it wasn't straight up tobiko.
>

Also comes as "Caribbean" flavoured tobiko. Try
http://www.ffgc.com/catalog/catalog.pl for these 2 plus other
flavoured roe.