Anyone ever tried the fugu?!
Answers: how was it? were you scared?
Yup! It's kinda weird, coz you touch your lips with it, and they tingle...and that sends a shiver down your spine - our fugu chef had over 35 years experience, he was the best of the bunch, he was fast, his knife whipped around that fish like lightening! So we weren't too worried - couldn't have been as we ended up going there 4 times before we came home off a two week holiday!
Forgot to say, my brother DID put the fear of god into me while we were walking around about an hour later, he put his hand on his stomach and screwed up his face staggered around and shouted AAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH! I nearly had a heart attack! he was only playing, I was shaking for a good ten minutes after!!
David H - the poison is in the ovaries, skin but mostly in the liver of the fish
ha ha ha ha ha sorry for laughing but i just had flashbacks of the Homer fugu which reduced me to tears of laughter!!! but no, i haven't tried it and probably never will be brave enough either!!
Sorry, I didn't know what that was... I just looked it up and no, I haven't either I am a bit scared....
My husband tried fugu on our last trip to Japan, I was probably a lot more scared than he was! He thoroughly enjoyed it actually, said the taste/texture and sensation was a great experience and he would love to do it again! No regrets!
no but want to so bad
When I was a chef and worked in Japan, I had the full "Fugu" experience, the sashimi, sushi and a soup made from the bones, and the risk factor is minimal as the one lady said, in japan they have to be licenced even toserve it, and all of the other parts are kept in a locked disposal bucket and are incinerated to prevent any accidents, the numbing factor is temporary and is like eating hot peppers there is the intial sensation and then you get the flavour, but in the full course dinner it is all most constint, but you feel nothing a half hour to 1 hour after, it does not linger, and anything here in N America is processed and is frozen, I have had it here and there is still some mild affects to it, but no danger of poisoning, it is the internal glands(ovaries and testicles of the fish) that cause the sickness and sometimes death.