In this video, the host, Masaru, is breaking down a 42kg opah (a type of fish) for the second time. He starts by scaling the fish, which is a laborious process given the fish's large size and fresh condition. He then proceeds to cut off the fins, revealing a belly section covered with very thick and fatty skin. He also removes the skin from the forehead, which he refers to as "the forehead meat".
Afterwards, he discovers an eye that is as large as the eye muscles, which he decides to simmer. He also finds a piece of meat that resembles whale meat and decides to slice it thinly and eat it as sashimi.
Masaru also finds a plastic bottle cap in the opah's stomach, indicating that the fish has eaten garbage. He is surprised by this discovery as he had never seen a fish eat garbage before.
In the end, Masaru prepares three dishes: opah sashimi, simmered opah eyes, and sautéed opah meat. He cuts the opah into various pieces, skins it, and prepares it for sashimi. He also cooks the belly meat and the fatty chunk separately. Despite the initial challenges, Masaru is excited about the final result and looks forward to eating the dishes.
1. The text is a video transcript of a person, Masaru, dissecting an opah, a type of fish.
2. The opah weighs 42kg and is considered relatively large, as opahs usually grow up to 270kg.
3. Opahs are carnivorous and are usually caught as bycatch when longline fishing for tunas.
4. The opah has scales that are a beautiful cherry blossom pink.
5. The opah is fully warm-blooded and circulates heated blood throughout its body.
6. The opah's internal structure is complex and difficult to dissect.
7. The opah's meat is described as having a taste similar to a cross between a tuna and a squid.
8. The fish contains parasites, specifically didymozoids, which are considered safe to eat.
9. The opah was shipped in a styrofoam box to maintain its freshness.
10. The opah is broken down into various parts for cooking, including the eye, belly meat, and the fatty membrane-looking chunk.
11. The opah's organs include a stomach, eggs, and bones of small fish.
12. The opah's stomach contained a plastic bottle cap, indicating that it ate garbage.
13. A single 42kg opah yields about 12-13kg of edible meat.
14. The opah is cooked in three dishes: opah sashimi, simmered opah eyes, and sautéed opah meat.
15. The cooking process involves blanching the eyes to remove smell, simmering the eyes with ginger, dark soy sauce, brown sugar, cooking sake, and mirin, and sautéing the belly meat and the fatty chunk with salt, pepper, and butter.