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Netzapper t1_isgtffr wrote

No. Don't eat seafood here, it's literally all terrible.

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ErisEpicene t1_ish4o77 wrote

Sushi is, counterintuitively, a good bet for seafood in inland spaces. Most good sushi, even a lot of it in coastal states, is made with flash frozen fish. Even many high end sushi chefs prefer flash frozen fish to fresh because it's so reliably the same.

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Netzapper t1_ish5cg9 wrote

I agree with you in big, high-income cities. The sushi is great in St. Louis and Denver, for instance. But here in Springfield, nobody's eating enough good sushi from the same places, so it sits frozen for quite a while. Can you find some palatable fishes at some places at some times? Probably, but it's definitely not the sublime experience that sushi should be.

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ErisEpicene t1_ishlhue wrote

<_< tbh, despite growing up on the gulf coast, I am a pretty poor judge of seafood quality. If you pull it out of the water, I will eat it. If you wrap small portions of it in rice, I'll eat 8-12. But sushi has been the best seafood I've had from a restaurant since moving to Springfield.

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Charlotte_the_cat t1_ish3i52 wrote

Well, I'm culinary trash, and I love crab from Red Lobster, but that's just me.

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Netzapper t1_ish5qb7 wrote

If you love it, you love it. I'm not judging, but I can see how it came off that way. I'm sorry.

But truthfully, it won't satisfy most people who move into the area from somewhere closer to the coast or a major air hub, where options for seafood are objectively fresher and more regional.

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Netzapper t1_isk71k8 wrote

Yep, I didn't want to get into that.

You have to be careful when you're buying seafood that you're actually buying what's fished near that locale. If you're in Seattle buying scallops or shrimp, well, you're eating frozen ones, cause those species literally don't grow in the Pacific Northwest. But you can absolutely find market-fresh salmon in a variety of restaurants. In Maine, lobster is cheap as fuck, sweet, and delicious... but your clams are likely frozen, and your salmon is likely Canadian at best.

And this doesn't even get into the fact that most of the local coastal fisheries in the US are totally fucked and depleted, so whereas you might get local clams in Massachusetts back in the day, or local crabs in Maryland, most of that has to be caught way off coast now. Which means commercial ships, storage, and wholesale. So even if the crab was caught roughly off Maryland, it still might be stored for a month before it actually gets to Baltimore.

> Springfield's only difference is there is less selection because there is less money.

This is the crux of what I'm talking about with sushi elsewhere in the thread. There are not enough people every night willing to go out and spend $100+ on seafood here, which means restaurants don't order a lot of high-price stock, and don't go through what they do order very fast.

But yeah, it's not "all marketing", and you're tripping hard if you think that the best sushi here is on the same level as the best sushi in Denver or Chicago.

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Charlotte_the_cat t1_ish7czd wrote

Right. If you came from San Francisco, you aren't going to like Missouri's imported fish. I do wish I lived closer to the ocean where I could have fresh produce straight from the sea.

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gucccibear t1_isgxdo2 wrote

I would like to say corner 21 has some good fish dishes, only one I could comfortably recommend.

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