Thought For Food: Salmon Lover’s Delight — IMRAN®

Thought For Food: Salmon Lover's Delight — IMRAN®

I'm always on a see/seafood diet. I see (sea)food, I eat it. The irony? Growing up in the seaside city of Karachi, I actually hated seafood. Sometimes the stench of a fish‑market truck crossing paths with our school bus on Drigh Road on the way to St. Paul's High School would make me nauseous.

Even later, when visiting my parents, whether it was my late beloved father's favorite fish — caught fresh daily from the rivers and canals his Irrigation Department job gave us the luxury of living beside in Punjab — lovingly cooked by my late precious mother, or Dad's favorite fried fish at a restaurant in Lahore, I still had zero interest.

Everything changed unexpectedly on my first trip abroad — in West Germany of all places — where I discovered authentic Japanese food for the first time. I was pleasantly shocked by how much I enjoyed it. I took to sashimi… well, like a fish to water.

Years later, during a visit to Japan itself, that newfound love only grew deeper — and it has never abated. From holding my nose on Drigh Road to diving nose‑first into sashimi — life has a raw and fresh sense of humor with nothing fishy about it. 

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