Fugu – Japaneese Dish
Fugu is one of the most celebrated and notorious dishes in Japanese cuisine. It is prepared from the meat of pufferfish or porcupinefish of the genus Diodon. But pufferfish is lethally poisonous if you prepared it incorrectly. This is because pufferfish contains lethal amounts of poison tetrodotoxin in the internal organs, especially the liver and gonads and also the skin. Therefore, only specially licensed chefs can prepare and sell fugu to public and the consumption of the liver and ovaries are forbidden.
The small amounts of the poison from pufferfish give a special desired sensation on the tongue and these parts are considered the most delicious by some goumets. Every year hundreds of people die because they underestimate the amount of poison in the fish parts. But it doesn’t stop the Japanese to eat it. Is it really taste good?