Sushi for sadists...

[akebono]

this sushi chef better hope karma is just a concept.

anyone ever see this method of sushi prep?

the money shot comes @ the 1:30 mark.

This fish laughs at foie gras geese.

somewhere, PETA weeps.

[torakris]

Wow! I have never seen anything like that, I found it quite gross and I often eat sashimi when the fish is still flopping on my plate....

The chef explains that when he was a child he read in a manga (comic) about a guy doing this and he has wanted to try it since.

[akebono]

Wow! I have never seen anything like that, I found it quite gross and I often eat sashimi when the fish is still flopping on my plate....

The chef explains that when he was a child he read in a manga (comic) about a guy doing this and he has wanted to try it since.

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i figured if you had not seen it kris,

not many have. thanks for the translation too.

-m

BTW what kind of fish is that?

Edited January 27, 2007 by akebono (log)

[SuzySushi]

That really is cruel, and I'm a sushi lover.

[Hiroyuki]

That really is cruel, and I'm a sushi lover. 

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The narrator says that fish don't have pain spots and do not feel the pain.

The fish in the video is a snapper (tai) called ishi dai.

[StInGeR]

OK thats worse than what I had at Jewel Bako a couple of years ago which was shrimp sushi and they served the head/body on the plate with the legs and antennae still moving. Sorry but just wrong.

Tom

[SuzySushi]

That really is cruel, and I'm a sushi lover. 

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The narrator says that fish don't have pain spots and do not feel the pain.

The fish in the video is a snapper (tai) called ishi dai.

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I still say it's cruel. That, to me, is like experimenting on animals for the fun of it. Not much fun for the animals!

[Sam Salmon]

Fish don't have pain receptors-if they did they'd swim toward the fisherman when they were hooked.

BTW-I eat live Prawns all the time-yank off the head suck out the juice/WHY then peel off the still wriggling body and slurp down the flesh-it's NBD.

The truly cruel part-IME-is not killing a fish that has been just taken out of the water-it's suffocating out of water.

[WHT]

They have a place like this on the north side of Chicago. I don't need my sushi to be t h a t fresh.

Edited January 28, 2007 by WHT (log)

[Kent Wang]

I think it's pretty cool and want to try it. I don't find it cruel.

[budrichard]

The place on the north side of Chicago is Heat. The proper presentation actually severs the main nerve and the fish is served Sashimi style with the head on the plate with the mouth open looking up at you. What is the problem? The fish is dead, just the same as in any other sushi bar? -Dick