Buying Your First Sushi Fish

If you’re in the Chicagoland area, order your first sushi fish from MPS Groceries.

They have the smallest free shipping minimums and their portions are convenient for starting out. Even if you can’t meet their free shipping minimums, their shipping is the cheapest out of everything I’ve used. Start with buying this salmon and this tuna. Both of these come in a perfectly-sized block to immediately start making sushi.

If you’re too far away from Chicago to use MPSGroceries, use Riviera Seafood Club.

Buy this salmon and this tuna. They both come superfrozen, so you don’t have to use them right away. To defrost, either thaw in the fridge overnight, or in a bowl of water at room temperature in 4 hours. Once you’ve defrosted the fish, it’s better not to re-freeze it because re-freezing messes up the texture of the fish. Use the fish as sushi within 2 days.

How much fish to buy?
5 oz of fish is about the amount of fish a single person will eat in typical sushi-eating session, so plan accordingly.

Once you’ve purchased your fish, it’s time to learn how to make sushi rice.