Dry-aging concentrates amino acids in the fish, making the sashimi more delicious – just like beef. Fuku Hotta can only accommodate around 15-20 guests each day. Rare wild fugu is an expensive ...

The most common way to have fugu is raw or "tessa," sashimi style. Daring foodies can expect this dish of Japanese roulette to be served with some flair. Most commonly, fugu sashimi is presented ...

epitomizing its culture of rustic communal baths — a hot steaming pot of fugu chiri is the perfect conclusion to a drizzly day in the mountains. The fish is meaty and dense; the sashimi ...

She recently used her new skills to serve a platter of paper-thin slices of fugu sashimi to the governor of southern Kumamoto region where she lives. "I was happy when the governor said 'oishi ...

We had exchanged presents and, armed with a sweating mug of beer each for courage, were contemplating our first dish, fugu sashimi. “You go first,” says Minori, staring down at the flower of ...

Fugu generally has a mild flavor ... While pufferfish, served regularly as sashimi or in hot pot, is a prized item in the Japanese culinary world, almost all of them are poisonous and could ...

A Japanese 10-year-old has become the youngest person authorized to prepare fugu puffer fish — a delicacy that can kill if its poisonous parts are not properly removed. Fifth grader Karin Tabira ...

She recently used her new skills to serve a platter of paper-thin slices of fugu sashimi to the governor of southern Kumamoto region where she lives. "I was happy when the governor said 'oishi ...