"Tea" wrote in message
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"Musashi" wrote in message
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"Tea" wrote in message
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I would call Mitsuwa Marketplace in Edgewater NJ. It is 20 minutes
from
New
York, and has unfrozen fish all the time.
"Chris" wrote in message
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Does anyone know where I can order fresh, never been frozen, true
bluefin loin, ether maguro or toro, in quantities of 1 or 2 pounds?
This is going to New York.

Thanks


I wonder if the Tuna at Mitsuwa or any other Japanese food store is
really
"never frozen" though.
I say this because a great majority of tuna that arrives in the fish
markets
in Japan arrive in flash frozen
form, the fish being frozen at sea. If the Japanese food stores in the
US
are buying tuna airshipped from
Japan then I'd think most of that would have been frozen once.
On the other hand I have seen whole unfrozen tuna caught in local waters
in
fish markets in Japan. Also,
if any of the stores in the US are buying from the Tuna fishermen of the
US
Northeast (Massachusetts being the
biggest USNE supplier of bluefin, but Long Island amd NJ also) then I
guess
that they might be
getting "never frozen" tuna. I do know that in Japan "once frozen" is
not
considered detrimental to the texture
or taste.
Most of their fish is flash frozen. However, the store's annual tuna
festival, they bring in a whole tuna that is NOT flash frozen and cut it
up
in front of the crowd (I have photos).
I would check with them- I'm sure they would be able to answer you.


That's right..last year they cut up a mediterranean Bluefin.
BTW...this years Maguro Festival is either this or next weekend.