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Those little orange eggs on your sushi roll? That’s masago. You’ve been eating it for years – on California rolls, scattered across poke bowls, mixed into that creamy spicy sauce you can’t stop ordering. But if someone asked you what…
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Those tiny orange beads on your California roll. The fine, briny coating pressed into the rice on the outside of a spicy tuna roll. The small mound sitting on top of a piece of nigiri in a gunkan-maki cup. That’s…
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