Ora King Salmon

[Rain City]

Ora king is great marketing out of NZ. It's really popular in fancy sushi restaurants becuase of its super high fat content. Ora also markets their tyee king which are 30ish # fish. I think they have better farming practices than we have up here. In any event I have tried it in sashimi from as well as cold smoked. The oil content was out of this world and you really can't compare it to wild. I would take sockeye any day of the week over it.

Yeah that's actually exactly what chef mentioned. It's typically used for sashimi but in this case they were asked to splurge a little. I bet those steak portions we had would have been 10 sushi portions at $10 per piece in a fancy omakase restaurant.