![]() which are simmered together with the fish. The main dish of a fugu course is usually fugu nabe, a hot pot dish with a konbu (seaweed) broth soup that includes many vegetables as shiitake, enoki mushroom, Chinese cabbage, spring onions etc. Fugunabe, or Techiri: Japanese Hot Pot with Pufferfish These crispy delights can be dipped in either Ponzu or salt. Today, Fugu chunks deep fried in a thin layer of flour are one of the most popular ways to eat fugu. However, karaage, is the Japanese deep-frying technique that can be used on many ingredients, including pufferfish. When you hear karaage, the first thing that may come to mind is delicious Japanese fried chicken. Fugu as sashimi is dipped in Ponzu (citrus soy sauce) rather than plain soy sauce. The slices are served on a large plate, often in the shape of a crane. This is why fugu is cut in slices so thin that they are transparent, also making it a feast for the eyes. Due to fugu’s firm texture, normal sashimi slices would be too hard to chew. Fugusashi: Eat Pufferfish Rawįugusashi, or fugu as sashimi, is without a doubt the most traditional and most famous way of serving fugu. At a fugu restaurant, a dinner course that has several dishes with Fugu prepared in different ways is generally ordered. While fugu is widely renowned for being poisonous, what is less known, is how it is eaten. While eating an amateur prepared fugu can indeed be very dangerous, having fugu at a restaurant is a lot more safe than for example driving a car, practicing sports or even eating fast food! The iconic Fugu of Tsubora, a famous Fugu restaurant in Osaka ![]() Furthermore, the liver, a fugu’s most poisonous part, is forbidden to be served. More than 90 percent of the fugu poison incidents do not occur at restaurants, but at home by eating self-caught and self-To be allowed to serve fugu at a restaurant, all the chefs need to have a license, which can only be obtained by 3 years of hard training. While between 1 to 6 people die by fugu poison per year in Japan, calling an evening at a fugu restaurant “Japanese roulette” would be unfair. Although most of our readers are probably familiar with it, I assume that most of you have yet to try it out for yourself. Being a poisonous fish, fugu, or pufferfish is one of the most notorious delicacies in Japanese cuisine.
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