Anyone ever try these? Shit looks nuts but good…
In Japanese cuisine, ikizukuri or ikezukuri (生き作り/活け造り?, “prepared alive”) is the preparation of sashimi from a living animal.
Ikizukuri usually begins with the customer selecting, from a tank in the restaurant, the animal (shrimp, octopus, lobster, assorted fish) they wish to eat. The chef, who is most of the time a sashimi chef takes the animal out of the tank and filets and guts it, but without killing the animal, which is served on a plate, sliced, with the heart still beating.
Ikizukuri of fish consists of thin, sheet-like slices or finger-sized pieces sometimes garnished with lemon wedges, a decoration of ginger, or nori (seaweed). Squid and small octopus are usually wrapped around a chopstick and eaten whole.
Ikizukuri is a controversial method of food preparation, both in Japan and in other countries.
i think that’s a little cruel, but shit, at least they don’t hide the cruelty in eating meat. who cares, cultural difference. i’m wondering - is it good?
Fugu (河豚, 鰒, フグ?) is the Japanese word for pufferfish and is also a Japanese dish prepared from the meat of pufferfish (normally species of Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides) or porcupinefish of the genus Diodon. Because pufferfish is lethally poisonous if prepared incorrectly, fugu has become one of the most celebrated and notorious dishes in Japanese cuisine.
we’ve all heard of this. looks like it’s more about the thrill of eating it more then the taste. there’s a spot in NYC where you can pick up a sashimi piece for 13 each, guess he’s a legendary sushi chef trained in the same aspects as the rest of the japanese. i think i’d give this a run but i have a feeling i’d be let down. plus, i hear rumors all those fish are farmed with a controlled diet that eliminates their toxicity.
Odori Ebi (踊り海老 / 躍り海老, odori ebi /lit. “dancing shrimp”[B]?)[/B] is a delicacy of Sashimi. It is translated as living or dancing prawns. The sushi contains baby shrimps (Pandalus borealis) still alive and able to still move its legs and antenna while being eaten. The meal is prepared quickly to keep the prawn still alive, usually dunked into sake in order to intoxicate the shrimp. The person eating the prawn would usually dip the live shrimp into a special dipping sauce and quickly chew on the animal to kill it.
looks weird, but probably so fresh…
share some other crazy foodz, stories of eating foodz like this, etc.