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Other & modern neta
Everything outside the classic edomae buckets — salmon, escolar, and the modern arrivals that reshaped the menu.
Escolar
Escolar is a snake mackerel — not tuna at all — routinely sold as 'white tuna'. Buttery and delicious, but its wax esters can cause digestive distress, and it's banned in Japan.
kanikamaKanikama
Kanikama is imitation crab — surimi (usually pollock) shaped and dyed to mimic crab legs. It's what's in most 'crab' rolls, including the California roll. Not crab.
鮭 sakeSalmon
Salmon (sake) is one of the world's most popular sushi fish — and one of the least traditional. Raw salmon sushi is a 1980s Norwegian invention, not edomae.
白子 shirakoShirako
Shirako is fish milt — the sperm sac, usually of cod — custardy, creamy and frankly divisive. A prized winter delicacy for the adventurous.
白魚 shirauoShirauo
Shirauo is the Japanese icefish — a tiny, translucent whole fish eaten in early spring, often as gunkanmaki or, for the bold, alive. Not to be confused with shirasu.