I’m sure I’m not the first to need reassurance before tucking into fugu. Wakasa blowfish or fugu thin fillet in big platter with lemon, sauce, wasabi and herbs.
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At Kitsho Restaurant and Sake Bar in Traders Hotel Manila, Executive Chef Masahiro Mizumoto is known to prepare and cook the deadly fugu or puffer fish (also known as blowfish or globefish), whose poison is not only in the fin but also in the blood and the liver. Preparing stonefish is best left to the experts who take great care to protect the lives of those who dare to dine on these delicacies. Or else an inexperienced chef can get poisoned if he is pierced by the spines while prepping the fish for sashimi, as soup or a fried dish. People usually get poisoned if they step on the stonefish as it camouflages itself in the mud, leading to excruciating pain, shock, paralysis or even death unless immediate medical attention is received. The venom is myotoxic (affects muscles), neurotoxic (hits the nerves), vaso permeable (causes swelling) and cardio toxic (attacks the heart). Each fin is covered by a veil that, when pressed, squeezes the venom at the base of the spine, releasing the poison up the spines and into the cut flesh. Inimicus japonicas, more commonly known as okoze, is found in the waters off Japan and in the East China Sea.
Okoze sashimi sounds as unassuming as any other fish sashimi - except it’s made from the deadly stonefish, whose 13 dorsal fins each contain a pair of venom sacs.
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