While we ate we watched the chef grating fresh wasabi which is a ... by chutoro or medium fatty tuna. Madai – a red sea bream came next. The fish had been seared and was delicately topped ...

I run the hockey puck-sized tin under a hot tap, open it, pour the melted butter on toast and place the flakes of tuna carefully on top. A crack of black pepper, a drizzle of lemon, then I tuck in.

Spicy, traditional, mayonnaise-laden or wasabi-spiked, ahi poke may not be as local as many are led to believe. The bigeye tuna, the prized main ingredient, could hail from the Indian Ocean ...