Has anybody tried any exotic meats ?

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Originally Posted by bungcarlo

There's a japanese restaurant nearby where they serve "fugu" fish. Always tempted to try but I heard it has to be a pro chef to prep this dish or else.... RIP.

I watched a documentary about it on youtube recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icBau6bfPBE

I learned some interesting facts from the documentary,

1) Apparently in Japan you can get less expensive pre-prepared detoxified fugu produced by factories who employ people/chef who have undergone the certification.

2) There is also a business in Japan raising toxic free fugu fish as fugu's neurotoxin are not actually synthesized by itself but rather accumulated by its diet of starfish and other marine life. By raising fugu in a man made environment eliminates these toxin accumulating diet. They have done numerous analysis to determine that it is free of toxin but kept getting turned down by the ministry of health for approval to market it as food.

3) There is an entire department in the ministry of health dedicated solely for fugu regulation ad certification.

4) There are two types of fugu, the expensive kind and the cheap kind but both are toxic and requires detoxification before consumption.

5) Fugu parts removed during the detoxification preparation in restaurants etc. are required by law to be locked in a metal bin for discard to prevent the homeless from digging through the trash and consuming it.