We woke up at 3:45am this morning to check out the Tsukiji Fish Market, which holds some sort of fish-based market world record. I forget exactly what. In any case, it was crazy. By the time we got there at 5am, the whole place was barely-controlled chaos, with trucks, scooters, bikes and hand-carts flying around in every direction, all loaded down with sea creatures. Some of them I recognized, others looked like props from a horror movie.
By far the coolest part of the market is the tuna auction, where the morning's tuna catch is laid out in a big warehouse, and restaurant representatives bid on them in a process that resembles a big-city stock market, with more disembodied fins on the floor. And man, those tuna are BIG. For example, this one:
The nicest of the day's tuna can go for more than $10,000 per fish.
After checking out the market we hit up a tiny sushi restaurant, hidden down a side street and behind a big red curtain. Very mysterious. Breakfast sushi is apparently the thing to do around Tsukiji, so we ordered with the time-honoured "point-at-pictures-and-smile" technique. We wound up getting a huge selection of incredibly fresh sushi and sashimi, including a few pieces of "o-toro", a kind of super-fatty tuna that is sort of like the Kobe beef of the fish world. Delicious.
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"shits always going down in china town...."
"they're just passing the same piece of fish back and forth between themselves...that's the same piece of fish"!
~ its always sunny in philadelphia
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