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 ...

where it's served as perfectly thinly sliced sashimi, deep-fried, and even used to make a hot sake called hirezake. Yamadaya has been serving puffer fish for over 100 years. Their fugu is caught ...

eaten raw as sashimi or in a hot pot, is a winter specialty. Restaurants serve not only affordable, tasty fugu but their rich-flavored testes called “shirako.” Still, even die-hard fans ...

FUGU or pufferfish is not something that can be savoured at just any Japanese restaurant as a chef must be licensed to prepare and serve it. Prepared wrongly, consuming fugu can result in death as ...