Real Escolar Quest
Does anyone know where I can buy Escolar (also could be called escara, white tuna, super white tuna, butter fish)? I posted about this last week and was suggested to go to a Farmers Market but couldn't find any. Then I went to a fish market in Huntington Beach and bought something called, "frozen escolar fish steak/ taiwan sea bass steak," but this wasn't what I experienced in the sushi restaurant that I dined at. The texture and the taste wasn't the same. I would really like to find real escolar in my area (Orange County) so I could prepare it at home. Any tips?
By manoffaithnotw
on Feb 23, 2010 04:15 PM
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If neither a fish market nor the fishmonger at the farmers' market has it, then it may not be currently available. Are you sure it's even in season? E.g., you can't get fresh Alaskan salmon right now because it's not in season. Did you ask at either place you visited?
For example, the fish monger in Pasadena doesn't have the same thing every time, obviously. If there was something I wanted that she didn't have, I would ask her when/if she would have it.
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Did you call Dry Dock Seafood in Fullerton?
It may not be in season right now, as Jack said. I don't eat it because it makes my tumbly rumbly, but I know I've seen them carry it.
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