The Tokyo culture is influenced by the Western and Eastern culture. The Japanese food is known to be famous arround the world for keeping healthy and long life. The most common food in Tokyo is sashimi(刺身), which literally means "pierced meat". There are a few varieties of sashimi, including sake(サケ, salmon), ika(いか, squid), ebi(えび, shrimp), hamachi(はまち, yellowtail), tako(たこ, octopus), maguro(まぐろ, tuna), masu (マス, trout), fugu(河豚, putterfish), etc.
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There are different types of sashimi, as you can see above, but fugu(河豚, pufferfish) is possibly the most exotic and dangerous food known to the world. If it's not properly prepared, it can really cause death. The most toxic parts of the fish are treated as hazardous waste. Fugu cooks are strictly licenced and trained to prevent poisoning, so fugu offered in restaurants is safe for consumers. That being said, some highly trained chefs include a tiny bit of the toxin when they serve fugu. The toxin will create a prickly, numb feeling on the tongue. Fugu is forbidden to the Emperor of Japan, the tennō(天皇), for obvious reasons.
There are a new type of fugu recently, Japanese fish farmers are now mass-producing poison-free fugu as harmless as goldfish. Most important, they have taken the poison out of fugu's liver - considered both its most delicious but poisonous part, one whose consumption has left countless Japanese dead over the centuries. The farmers basically put fish away from the bacteria, which fugu consume and start to develop poisonous subsances in their body after having it.
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There are different types of sashimi, as you can see above, but fugu(河豚, pufferfish) is possibly the most exotic and dangerous food known to the world. If it's not properly prepared, it can really cause death. The most toxic parts of the fish are treated as hazardous waste. Fugu cooks are strictly licenced and trained to prevent poisoning, so fugu offered in restaurants is safe for consumers. That being said, some highly trained chefs include a tiny bit of the toxin when they serve fugu. The toxin will create a prickly, numb feeling on the tongue. Fugu is forbidden to the Emperor of Japan, the tennō(天皇), for obvious reasons.
There are a new type of fugu recently, Japanese fish farmers are now mass-producing poison-free fugu as harmless as goldfish. Most important, they have taken the poison out of fugu's liver - considered both its most delicious but poisonous part, one whose consumption has left countless Japanese dead over the centuries. The farmers basically put fish away from the bacteria, which fugu consume and start to develop poisonous subsances in their body after having it.
