SINGAPORE — Its livers, ovaries and skin are said to contain toxins that are 100 times more poisonous than cyanide. Yet for some, the allure of puffer fish, or fugu in Japanese, is irresistible. One ...
FACT: Eat the wrong part of a blowfish and you can die within hours. Death on a plate arrives in so many shapes and textures and pretty arrangements that for a moment I forget this meal can kill me.
The poisonous puffer fish, which inflates itself into a small balloon when caught, lives in most of the world’s oceans. But only in Japan, where it is called fugu, has it become a national tradition.
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The first time I heard about fugu was on an episode of The Simpsons. Homer visits a new sushi restaurant and he demands to eat fugu (as well as everything else on the menu). The sushi master was “busy ...