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.
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