Dilbert, I've tried sashimi in the restaurants, but it was or my 19th birthday, so it was 3 years ago.
Onesnowyowl, I actually read that you should AVOID salmon because they come from freshwater. Apparently there was a story of a restaurants that had salmon and everyone got sick from it, and some dudes were able to trace it back to a lake in Alaska or something.
Charlatan, I'll be hitting up Google for a local fish monger.
Siege, yikes! Glad to hear they didn't get worse. Is it possible to come under serious illness? What do the intestinal bugs do anyway?