i will be in tokyo from thursday until the new year. whilst there, i’d like to have some fugu, or poison blowfish. i’m not really sure of the allure; the taste is nominal and it seems most of the enthusiasm for this particular variety comes from the fact that it’s: a) really expensive and b) creates a slight numbing feeling on your lips and tongue after eating–not unlike really good szechuan cuisine.
unfortunately if you’re one of the two dozen or so people in japan each year that encounter improperly prepared fugu, you die a slow horrible death, completely paralyzed for about 20 hours until your lungs slowly give way and you asphyxiate. so, uh… let’s hope that doesn’t happen!
see you all in 2009. one of my resolutions is to post more. we’ll see!
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