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Delicacy highly prized in Japan but highly dangerous
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fugu
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is the Japanese word for pufferfish and the dish prepared from it, normally species of genus Takifugu , Lagocephalus , or Sphoeroides , or porcupinefish of the genus Diodon . Fugu can be lethally poisonous due to its tetrodotoxin ; therefore, it must be ...
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blowfish \blow"fish\ n. a fish eaten as a delicacy, especially in Japan. It is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison (tetrodotoxin) in its ovaries and liver. Chefs require special training to learn how to remove the poisonous parts, and in Japan ...
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n. delicacy highly prized in Japan but highly dangerous
Usage examples of fugu.
Because of the dangerous properties of the fish, every fugu restaurant has to be manned by experts and be registered with the State.
There followed various side-dishes containing other parts of the fish, and more sake, but this time containing raw fugu fins.
The man who stole my wallet was in the fugu restaurant last night, and he's now a mile behind on a motor-cycle - or I'll eat my hat.
In fact, she found Bernard Godwin altogether fascinating, but after the incident in the fugu restaurant when he had so effortlessly seen through her, she was careful not to let him know this.
According to Deke, she had been poisoned by a complex organic doku, a toxin, usually lethal, whose main elements had been distilled from monkshood and the poison in fugu, Japanese blowfish.
The Japanese consider Fugu sashimi an exquisite delicacy that, properly prepared, will cause one's lips to tingle, one's senses to soar, and produces a pleasant near-death experience for the adventurous gourmand.