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A 5-centimeter (2-inch) piece of the fattiest part of the fish, called otoro in Japanese, can cost more than 2,000 yen ($22) in a Tokyo restaurant.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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Arranged in overlapping fans, rings, and filets were rich, plump horse mackerel; a delicate little spot prawn; buttery lobster sashimi; long, meaty necks of geoduck clam; the blissfully fatty tuna known as otoro; crisp
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A piece of "otoro" or fatty underbelly now costs 2,000 yen (22 dollars) at high-end Tokyo restaurants.
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Only the fatty underbelly of the fish has their attention -- the white, marbled "otoro" section that tastes like butter and sells at 16 dollars for a morsel smaller than a mobile phone.
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Only the fatty underbelly of the fish has their attention -- the white, marbled "otoro" section that tastes like butter and sells at 16 dollars for a morsel smaller than a mobile phone.
My Sinchew - phuijee 2010
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That frenzy for "otoro," the slightly pinker, leaner "chutoro" and classic red "akami" is also what many countries attending this week's CITES conference on endangered wildlife fear is pushing the entire Atlantic bluefin species toward annihilation.
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A piece of "otoro" or fatty underbelly now costs 2 000 yen (R161) at high-end Tokyo restaurants.
IOL: News 2010
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That frenzy for "otoro," the slightly pinker, leaner "chutoro" and classic red "akami" is also what many countries attending this week's CITES conference on endangered wildlife fear is pushing the entire Atlantic bluefin species toward annihilation.
My Sinchew - phuijee 2010
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But the floral tributes had better be prepared to make way for futomaki, hamachi and otoro , all courtesy of Dame Judi Dench, Mr. Rees's close friend and fellow Royal Shakespeare Company denizen.
Like Gomez, He's an Enthusiast Joanne Kaufman 2011
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In addition to a tuna sampler nigiri selection (tuna, medium otoro and fatty otoro) we tried the shrimp seven spice togarashi sauce, and a tuna tuna roll which had albacore inside a square of pressed rice with tuna over it topped with a great sauce.
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