Beaverstate

Alright all you Brits what is your favorite fish (or seafood), and how do you like it prepared,
All things being equal I will ALWAYS take a nice fresh Halibut steak broiled, then add a little melted butter and a bit of lemon.

Pulaski

For "fish & chips" it has to be haddock, deep fried. I'll eat cod, because that's usually what's on offer in the US, but it's not a patch on haddock.

Otherwise, I like calamari (fried), mussels (steamed), and salmon (broiled).

BunnyGirl

Love all of those, favourite fish has to be grilled sea bass with a hollandaise sauce

Nutek

BubbleChog

Raw. I'm a sushi fiend. My local sushi-house is fantastic and I can't get enough saba (mackerel) or Hotate (Scallop)

Lx

joto

Otherwise I love a good Maine lobster roll. That is the only thing I miss about living in the NE. I don't like having to faff about having to break apart a whole lobster.

ChocolateBabz

This is the correct answer.

(apart from sneaking the word 'broiled' in there...for shame)

ChocolateBabz

Hubby dubs loves saba too, although he generally orders it as sashimi.

Pulaski

I don't "get" sushi. I got some once, it was unappealing, and I won't be getting any more. Mrs P ordered some as an appetizer to share earlier this year; it wasn't any better.

Lion in Winter

It isn't so much the fish, as the freshness.

Old/farm-raised/frozen or super-chilled fish (ie about everything you get in a supermarket or too far from the sea) is rubbery and tasteless.

Something that was pulled out of the water only a few hours earlier is sublime.


Having said that - Broiled Dover sole with lemon. Fresh, of course.

Nutek

Stop that.

Raw fish is what you eat when your plane crashes and your only friend is a basketball.

And even then, it's a poor choice.

There is a reason we invented frying.

Pulaski

Eating the basketball would be a more appealing choice.

Nutek

Certainly from a texture viewpoint.

rpjs

You've probably never had really good, proper sushi or sashimi then. I've never been to Japan, but when we worked in that London we'd often go to some of the sushi places in Soho that you knew couldn't be too bad as Japanese people would eat there.

I agree that most sushi is a pale imitation of the real deal, and I dare say that the same applies to my fave Soho places (mmm, Ten Ten Tei) compared to a good place in Japan, but once you get a taste for it, even mediocre sushi is something I crave now and again.

Pulaski

The "problem" I have is that I will eat more or less anything that purports to be food, but some things I find less pleasant, and so choose to avoid. Raw fish is one of those things, as is raw steak, which I had once, and it wasn't bad, per se, but it wasn't in my top 100 things to eat again. Thai food is another - I like curry, I like Chinese, I like (some) soup, I just don't want all three in a bowl together!