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Last supper? Japan's diners divided over killer puffer fish
Yoshitaka Takahashi’s hands are shaking as he scores and cleans the skin of the fish in front of him. The tension rises again when his knife reaches the liver. The slightest mistake in removing the highly toxic organ could end in an agonising death for anyone who eats his fish. Twenty minutes later, the chef has successfully prepared a whole fugu – or puffer fish – a Japanese delicacy whose capacity to maim and kill is dividing the country’s culinary world.
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Has anyone here ever tried puffer fish? What did you think? Was the taste SO remarkable that eating the fish was worth the risk? Perhaps the satisfaction comes not from the taste but from beating the odds? Please tell me!
There is a really interesting documentary about this actually, it touches up on exactly your questions. Once I find it, I'll link it in the comment. As for me, I've never tried it, but personally imagine it being a real rush to eat.
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I'd like to watch that.
As a kid we would catch many blowfish in NJ. We all heard about the toxins, but it was mostly folklore for these types. They are not the same species as the ones discussed in Japan. We ate hundreds of them....my grandmom called them chicken of the sea....and they were delicious dipped in egg, flour and pan fried in butter!