How much is Japanese puffer fish food? Is Japanese puffer fish delicious?

Everyone knows that puffer fish is poisonous, but Japan eats a lot of puffer fish. Whether puffer fish is delicious or not is actually controversial. Let's take a look at the price and taste of Japanese puffer fish cuisine.

How many packages of Qianxuan products are 4,000-9,000 yen, including fish skin, sashimi, fried food and salty porridge dishes. The cheap ones are farmed, and the expensive ones are wild. It is said that the difference is that the latter's skin is more brittle.

The range can be from more than 2000 per person to more than 10000 yen.

The cheapest one I have ever experienced is the lunch set on the second floor of Xiaguan Tanghu Seafood Market, and the most expensive one is the Tiger Puffer Dinner in Osaka Puffer Store.

Does it taste good？ The first time I ate puffer fish was in Nara.

The waiter brought a plate of puffer fish skin, a plate of puffer fish sashimi and a plate of fried puffer fish. How can I put it? The puffer fish in this family is indeed more tenacious than ordinary fish, but that's all. Maybe it's because the previous rumors exaggerated its delicacy so that people's expectations were too high, and I always felt that there was a gap in my heart.

As mentioned above, this restaurant is not delicious, either because the ingredients are not good enough or because the chef lacks skills. Never mind, try another one.

The second time I ate puffer fish was in Osaka.

Japan consumes the most puffer fish. According to statistics, the consumption of puffer fish in Osaka accounts for more than 60% of that in Japan. In the famous Xinsaiqiao Commercial Street and other places, huge inflatable puffer fish signs always attract diners' attention. I specially searched a shop on the Internet that is far away from the tourist area and frequented by local people.

Generally, puffer fish sashimi is cut very thin, but this sashimi is uncharacteristically thick, which shows the tenacity of puffer fish meat.

It's the link of puffer fish hot pot. Well, what's with the smell? Even the soup cooked with puffer fish meat is delicious, and the dish cooked with powder becomes more delicious.

Chatting with the little brother in the shop hit it off, and the little brother brought a dish shaped like internal organs and boldly said: puffer fish liver, for you to eat. I didn't care too much, so I picked it up and ate a slice raw. As soon as the teeth were opened, the oily smell of the liver quickly filled the whole mouth. Brother said that this liver can also be used to rinse hot pot. I tried it, but I still think eating raw puffer liver is more memorable.

By the way, eating puffer fish liver is dangerous, and ordinary shops dare not sell it blatantly. This shop also doesn't write liver on the menu, only for the diners who get along.

The most perfect ending of puffer fish hot pot is to add the rest of puffer fish hot pot into porridge cooked with seaweed, eggs and rice. After a bite, the umami flavor of puffer fish still reverberates in the mouth.

In addition to Osaka, it also provides a good place for Japan to eat puffer fish: Tanghu Market in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

From 1592 to 1598, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent troops to North Korea. Warriors from all over the country went to Kitakyushu to gather and fight. Surprisingly, many samurai died of eating puffer fish when passing through Shimonoseki area of Yamaguchi Prefecture, which can be described as an indecent "death before conquest". Toyotomi Hideyoshi was so angry that he ordered the samurai not to eat puffer fish.

During the Meiji period, the government prohibited the sale of puffer fish. In Meiji 2 1 year, that is, 1888, when Japanese Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito visited Shimonoseki, he was able to taste delicious puffer fish and was amazed. Now he announced the lifting of the ban. These two historical events related to puffer fish both occurred in Shimonoseki, which shows the important position of puffer fish in Shimonoseki.

Today Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture is called "the field of puffer fish", which means the origin and authentic origin of puffer fish. Next to Shimonoseki Pier is an all-puffer fish restaurant and a new puffer fish mascot. Tanghu market is also here.

Since 1930s, Tanghu market has become an important wholesale market for puffer fish in Japan. Every Friday to Sunday or during festivals, this wholesale market will be transformed into a sightseeing market, selling all kinds of cheap seafood dishes, among which puffer fish is naturally the most sought after by tourists. In Tanghu Market, a place with high cost performance, even if you pick up a piece of puffer fish sashimi, puffer fish sushi, Bai Zi (that is, puffer fish testis) warship sushi and puffer fish porridge, the cost is only 100 yuan. Besides puffer fish, sea urchin, whale, snapper and squid are also famous seafood in Shimonoseki. Walking around the Tanghu market, people with little appetite will soon be filled.

In addition to the common puffer fish dishes, some local specialty shops in Tanghu Market also sell various puffer fish foods. Such as dried puffer fish, wine made of puffer fish fins, bamboo wheels made of puffer fish meat, etc. After tasting the fresh puffer fish dishes, you can also choose some special products to take home. I tried bottled puffer fin wine and found the fishy smell a little too strong after drinking it.

There are good and bad ingredients, and puffer fish is no exception. The cheap puffer fish dishes in Osaka and Tanghu market are generally cultured, and the price is not much higher. If you want to try the real delicacy of puffer fish, you must visit an upscale pavilion.

Why do you have to visit a high-end kiosk to make puffer fish?

Because high-end pavilions make wild tiger puffer fish. For example, this Michelin-starred restaurant in Hakata Fukuoka, Tianjin.

The puffer fish restaurant sells three kinds of puffer fish dishes: artificially cultured puffer fish, artificially cultured puffer fish with wild puffer fish fry and pure wild puffer fish. In Hakata, the prices of the three packages are 15000, 20000 and 25000 yen respectively, plus 8% tax. According to the comments of other diners, there is not much difference between the middle and the artificial ones. Either it is cheaper to eat farmed food, or you can eat the most expensive food in one step.

Then I'll have a set meal of wild tiger puffer fish, thank you.

The appetizer is puffer fish jelly, which uses the skin and meat of puffer fish face.

Puffer sashimi. What is the difference between wild puffer fish and other puffer fish? You can tell by the color of sashimi. Bodo's female general told me that the best wild puffer fish sashimi will have a unique pink color; If puffer fish are artificially raised with wild puffer fish fry, the sashimi will be milky white; And our common cultured puffer fish, the sashimi will be gray. At first, I thought pink was because of the residual puffer fish blood. When asked, the woman quickly waved her hand and said it was too dangerous. Chefs in the store will repeatedly wash and remove toxins from puffer fish blood to ensure the safety of diners.

I know this dish looks like a condom, but please don't say it, ok? Only wild puffer fish can have such a beautiful and pure condom color!

Fried puffer fish. The skin is crisp, and the wild puffer fish meat inside is very elastic, which completely explodes dozens of streets in Nara.

Puffer hot pot Puffer fish is cooked, fished out and dipped in lime vinegar to eat. This family's set meal is quite big, and I'm a little full now. After all, I just finished eating a big plate of condoms.

Crying and cooking. Namely pickles and porridge. Porridge is also made from the soup base of puffer fish hot pot.

I thought I ordered a set meal of grilled puffer fish, but after eating it, I found it was an ordinary set meal, so I ordered a small dish of grilled puffer fish. The one on the left tastes like salt and the one on the right tastes like soy sauce. Personally, I feel a little salty. I like sashimi and fried puffer fish best.

So, what is the difference in taste between wild tiger puffer fish and cultured puffer fish? One is fresher and the other is tougher. Wild puffer fish bite down, and its elasticity and toughness are incomparable to cultured puffer fish.

There is also a plate of vegetables and the last fruit. Halfway through the meal, I remembered the puffer liver that my little brother gave me at the puffer fish shop in Osaka, so I asked the female general if he had it here. The female general said that Fukuoka Prefecture prohibits the sale of puffer fish liver, but there are many other houses in Oita Prefecture. I asked again, can it be eaten raw? The female general sighed and said that she didn't seem to have heard of anyone eating puffer fish liver raw.

I asked the female general again, is it dangerous to eat puffer fish liver raw? The female general thought about it and said that it should be okay to wash it. Don't you think you're alive?

I think so too.

People often ask, is puffer fish worth dying for?

My answer is: it's worth eating and not dying.

It shows that in Japan, the chef who makes puffer fish needs a special license to make puffer fish, so there is generally no safety problem. Once an unlicensed chef handled puffer fish meat privately, and some of it flowed into markets and supermarkets. After the incident was exposed, it caused great panic in Japan. But in fact, in that incident, none of the customers died from eating puffer fish poisoning.

Later, I learned that the chef just didn't have a license, but the level of making puffer fish and the moral integrity as a chef seemed to be there.

Another reminder: in Japan, the liver of wild puffer fish is absolutely forbidden to eat, while the liver of cultured puffer fish is non-toxic. Some chefs will give you something to eat when they get familiar with you, but they generally don't sell it publicly.