My Favourite Food

My most favourite food is a Japanese delicacy called sashimi. It is often served raw with soya sauce or wasabi. Sashimi is actually very fresh, thin sliced pieces of fish. The special thing about sashimi is how it is caught and how it is killed before it is served to retain its freshness. Sashimi Grade' fish is caught by individual handline, and as soon as the fish is landed, its brain is pierced with a sharp spike, killing it instantly, then placed in slurried ice. This spiking is called the Ike jime process. Because the flesh thus contains minimal lactic acid from the fish dying slowly, it will keep fresh on ice for about 10 days without turning white, or otherwise degrading.
Sashimi is often the first course in a formal Japanese meal, but can also be the main course, presented with rice and Miso soup in separate bowls. I like sashimi because it taste very nice,and has a very distinctive flavour, particularly with soya sauce. The sashimi looks like pinkish slices of fish and it has very little smell, which makes me like it more. Often, when i go to a Japanese restaurent, Sashimi would be the first thing i order, and thus I feel that sashimi is indeed my favourite food.