Sentence examples for cuts of tuna from inspiring English sources

He liked Chinese food and sushi, especially squid and the finest cuts of tuna.

(When Mr. Fujimoto visited Pyongyang last month at Kim Jong-un's invitation, he went there with choice cuts of tuna — a delicacy that is Kim family favorite).

Ahi tuna "duo" matched diced tuna tartar with seared triangular cuts of tuna, slices of red and white pickled beets complementing the sweet fish.

As for toro, Mr. Oguma prefers leaner cuts of tuna, from bigeye instead of bluefin — partly because the latter is a dwindling species and partly because, he says disapprovingly, "It is outrageously expensive".

We enjoyed broiled eel, or anago (unage on the menu) brushed with a sweet thick sauce, squid (ika), yellow tail (hamachi), several cuts of tuna, tobiko (flying fish roe) and scallop (hotategai), among others.

One of the more mouthwatering accounts of life in Kim's court is by his former Japanese chef, a man who later took on the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto, whose duties included special trips to Iran to buy caviar, to Denmark for bacon, to Japan for the best cuts of tuna.

What's now the most expensive cut of tuna, the fatty belly-meat of bluefin tuna called otoro and shimofuri, was cat-food until the 1950s: it became a delicacy as a result of a Japanese government marketing campaign to deal with tuna shortages caused, it's said, by nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific.

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Hailed as the finest cut of tuna sashimi, the oily, fatty belly of the bluefin has also found its way onto many do-not-eat lists among consumers and environmentalists because the fish's numbers have plummeted in recent years.

Strips of salmon, roe, avocado and crispy crumbs came layered like a pizza on a thin tortilla base; a large lettuce leaf cupped spicy toro chopped with pear and red tobiko; and a magnificent trio sashimi brought two chunky cuts each of tuna with guacamole, salmon with dried tomato, and yellowtail with citrusy salsa.

His memoir, I Was Kim Jong-il's Cook, tells of Mr Kim's penchant for the most expensive cuts of raw tuna, Iranian caviar, Danish bacon and fine wines - while millions of North Koreans died of starvation.