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sashimi

/sɑˈʃimi/
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Sashimi is a Japanese dish consisting of small pieces of raw fish. If you order sashimi in a restaurant, it will be served with soy sauce, wasabi, and pickled ginger.

Sashimi is basically sushi without the rice and seaweed; it's simply high-quality morsels of raw fish. This delicacy is made with salmon, tuna, mackerel, and many other types of fish, cut into precise slices. The word sashimi comes from Japanese sashi, "to pierce," and mi, "flesh." Some experts think it was coined during an era when kiru, "to cut," was considered inauspicious for anyone other than a Samurai to use.

Definitions of sashimi
  1. noun
    very thinly sliced raw fish
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    type of:
    dish
    a particular item of prepared food
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