Why Puffer Fish Is So Expensive | So Expensive
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ค. 2019
- You’ve probably heard of fugu, the deadly puffer fish delicacy served across Japan. The Japanese eat 10,000 tons of the fish each year, but in high season, it could cost you $265 per kilogram. So what makes this dish so expensive?
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Why tiger fugu is so expensive | So Expensive
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“The fish is technically brain dead”
Fish: *They’re peelin me fookin skin!!!*
Haha Sausage Party reference
*why did i say this in a british accent*
😂
This comment sure is making me a little hungry.
Pretty sure he severed the brainstem from the brain.
Fugu: Develops toxin to avoid being eaten*
Japanese: “I’ll take your entire stock “
That's the ultimate flex of the human species.
Mjolnor yea but..not everyone will do it ....
@@Mazj559 how heavy does your balls have to be just to eat fugu? I doubt they can lift the damn thing.
What I got from the video: This expensive fish needs lots of training to be able to prepare. If done right, it is chewy, white, thin, and has almost no flavour. But you MIGHT die.
@@Neyobe sounds about as human as you can get. Materialism obsessed with dire consequences.
3:26 - What they didn't expand on, is that ANY mistake during the series of tests you take results in a failure. You also have to eat your own dish at the end preparation test - so you better be sure you did it correctly.
Sounds like a round of Squid Game Japan...
@@shepherdsgamingrun and they still have the highest life expectancy
so there's not a lot of second tries i guess
@@lebrown5075 Yea. My Japanese uncle only failed once.
@@cadellluna171 Well there's always next time
If you want to know the safest place to eat properly prepared pufferfishes, it's a high grade hotel. It's an extremely public place with many people, and the entire hotel's reputation is on the line, not just the chef. They will take the preparation very seriously.
No u
“æüæ” said the tiger puffer, scared and frightened.
“So you have chosen death?” Said the chef, maliciously
Ah my favorite kids book
Its basically the roblox death noise of the pufferfish
Æugh said the puffer fish
What,you egg
[he then stabs him]
Purple MushroomM I know realize that it’s actually a tiger fugu
*pulls knife out of sword case*
“Eueghh”
rip gay pufferfish
My boy was just vibin😭
🥕🐡
tq, the only reason i clicked on this video
J U I C E I am not gay
"I'll evolve into a highly poisonous fish, no one would want to eat me!"
-Fugu, 100 million years ago.
Evolution is a silly myth
@@thelaststand1674 you made me lol
@UCiUxXM6ZlSXOMivk6_VA8xg you’re a silly myth
@@thelaststand1674 that's all you have to say and yet you can't provide reason why smh
@@paleoph6168 provide reason ? for what ? those who came up with that silly myth are the ones who need to provide reason not me.
2:00 damn that heart still beating...
AYO BRO FLEX TAPE HIS SHIT TOGETHER AND HES GOOD
Holy shit, just saw that.
muscle spasms
Reminds me of the video about Gordon eating live snake heart😂
I've eaten salted beating perch hearts.
"Far more people die from eating oysters than fugu each year"
well that's probably because far more people eat oysters than fugu
So true
Yea they should compare amount consumed by death ratio
That’s probably because oyster’s are far more tastier than fugu
Axel Castillo yeah not really. Tiger Fugu is phenomenal! But it’s really expensive and the risk of poisoning is there. So not many people eat it.
@@axelcastillo7432 No, it's because oysters are a common food and fugu is a delicacy
Pufferfish: *Has a powerful poison to protect itself*
Japanese: hippity hoppity your meat is now my property
LMAO
No that's my uncle
your boi BRUH
@@walterwitharicekrispy3437 😳
They actually eat the testicles tho
I am sorry
I have an interesting story about pufferfish. I'm from a small town in mexico on the pacific coast and we have some many pufferfish they just wash up on our shores and die. So like 80 years ago, my grandfather, who owned a lot of the towns fisheries and fish stands, brought in some japanese chefs to teach the local women how to prepare the fish. We don't eat it raw, and it is absolutely delicious.
I grew up eating it but we always called it "botete". One time I asked my mother what fish it actually was, cuz it was only ever sold in filets. She was like, "yeah its the puffy one on the beaches". I freaked out lol.
i wanna try the burned one
i ate it last month in Shimonoseki - the capital of puffer fish. very tasty and not that expensive
hello👋
you noticed well👍
I live in Yamaguchi Prefecture, where Shimonoseki is located.
Tiger pufferfish is the most expensive puffer fish in Japan, and Yamaguchi Prefecture has the largest catch of tiger puffer fish in Japan.
Therefore, you can eat puffer fish cheaply in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Yamaguchi residents don't eat fugu very often in Tokyo or Osaka.
The reason is that the price is too high, and there are places where mackerel blowfish is sold as tiger blowfish.
Also, fugu is not a fish to enjoy the taste.
It's a fish that just enjoys the texture.
When foreigners eat pufferfish, I think they will prefer deep-fried fugu over sashimi.
Some Japanese say fugu sashimi is delicious, but I doubt that.
It's not the pufferfish sashimi that's delicious, but the ponzu sauce, 'Momiji Orosi' and green onion soy sauce.
Fugu sashimi enjoys the harmony of the taste of soy sauce and the texture of fugu.
Next time you eat puffer fish, be sure to try fried chicken.
"it's hard to distinguish between the ovaries, which are poisonous, and the testicles, which are a delicacy"
wtf
Probably why they are sometimes known as "blowfish"
@@fresred lmfao perfect comment
Lmao a delicacy, imagine taking your girl out for this shit and she get all excited until you tell her she eatin pufferfish balls
@@HamzaKhan-vk3xs more funni 🤣🤣🤣
頂你老母⋯
thumbnail looks like fugu accidentally opened front camera
Vishal Chaurasia 😂
Lmao
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Sevn Light nobody:
This man:
nobody;
sevn light: *talks about random off topic subject*
"clean taste and really really nice" yeah thanks for the thorough explaination🙄
"It takes year to learn which parts are poisonous"
Chef: "The internal organs and gills. You can eat the rest bro"
i love how the "warning: this video contains footage of a fish being killed" comes after a clip of a chef cutting a fish open
@Arambai ICBM mostly snowflakes I say
@bitterman co cope commie vegan
@@mariazazueta3211 snowflake
@bitterman co yummy fish go brrrr
Being cut and being killed are two different things tho
2:03 Did anybody see that heart beat?
OH GOD THATS CREEPY
It gave me woah reaction but I'm not suprised I think human hearts can last a bit when it's out of the body
@@TwistahsWorld Is long as it gets oxygen a heart will keep beating forever.
Well spotted!..Sad to see though.🐡
Yeppp
1:35 legends never die
This channel is my newest discovery of the internet and I’m obsessed lol
People: flexing that they can buy and eat pufferfish
Me: instant noodles and fake crab sticks
Tf is a fake crab stick. How and why do they exist
@@patq1924 you're not from Asia, I guess
@@patq1924 I'm pritty shore there called sea sticks now
Imagine being so broke that you have to get fake imitation crab meat
@@wackwacker8623 they don't tast like crab and I don't really like crab but crab stick or what ever there called now tast good
Mother nature : I'm going to put poison on puffer fish so that they can live peacefully .
Mankind : bon' apitte .
They aren't poisonous, they're toxic. Poison is something injected into another animal. Toxicity is if something eats you they die.
S .VanMeter nope
Toxic: foreign substance kills you(very rough meaning)
Poison: you bite it, you die
Venom: it bites you, you die
Morray eels go chomo chomp.
Nature is full of mistakes and outdated creatures/plants, with shitty defense mechanisms.
Apetit*
Nice piece 👍
Imagine being the first guy to eat that poisonous pufferfish and dies
Then the next guy was like "Owshit that's some true delicacy right there"
Same goes for cheese and fermented shark
Recession push people to eat anything
It's it same as cashew nut, bamboo shoot, flat fish or potato. All of them can be poisonous but if prepared correctly it can be really good food.
I love how the fish in the thumbnail is like: =]
*smiling but dead*
More like:
© ©
(_______)
More like | :)
Yup
The fish is giving us a dead smile :)
"The males testicles, which are a delicacy"
Me- I-
That feel when a fish gets more head than you
Akira Kurusu 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
*Silently crosses legs*
Karate.person ._. What can I say they love balls
Ew you sound 10
Fish in thumbnail "heh I'm about to be gutted aren't I 🙂"
2:04 The small heart right next to the gallbladder (the blue thing with yellow juices) just beated!
Poisonous fish exists*
Humans:
"That's some gourmet sh*t right there"
lmao
I mean, when you look at the history of agriculture, it’s really no surprise.
It's really not as impressive as it's price tag
@@0miy0 is anything ever?
@@0miy0 You've never had any, I can tell.
4:29 chewy, fresh, and clean doesn't describe what it tastes like
Fresh and clean does idiot
@ArmchairWarrior lol
Karrin Noire he meant it is tasteless. Lol.
I bet it taste like fish
@@ElSchizo you got rekt aren't you going to respond?
“Male testes are delicacies !” ‘Ouch’ Lmao
I must put this food item in my bucket list.
Fugu: “Thanks to evolution I have developed a defence against predators. Part of me is poisonous!”
Humans “Part of you?”
Imma pretend I didn’t hear that...
Evolutionism is stupid and dangerous.
@@roxastherogue ah yes, just add an -ism to pretend its some kind of dogma to justify your, Im assuming, creationist nonsense.
@@douglaslangley9251 you have to explain cosmic evolution, chemical evolution and how we still have monkeys. Single cell organisms have no way of expanding their dna. Do not tell me no sense when you believe nothing and boom giant rock
Ism- because it's a belief. We have not seen anything change "species"
@@grbrt6318 mirco and macro. Keep trying the school system failed you
Puffer fish: has deadly poison that can kill
Humans: *let’s eat it*
Japan: *living on an island with no meat source that does not come from the ocean*
Starving japanese farmer with failed crops that caught some pufferfish after 7 days of no food: "I need to figure out a way to eat this"
2,000 dead japanese farmers later: "Ok, so we can only eat this 40% of the fish"
@@chillbro1010 Why do I have a feeling it was a Japanese roulette. Hand everyone a piece of the fish see who dies, and who lives. Okay... those 6 sons died so, we can't eat that. Later accidentally fails to slice properly whole family dies.
Only in Japan
@@chillbro1010 Japan 2019: Lets make this fish super expensive and eat it to flex
@@MrSen4lifE racist
I have been catching and eating northern puffers (Sphoeroides maculates), since childhood. My Dad who was a butcher and a fisherman would clean and prepare them. There haven’t been any known cases of illness or death associated with these blowfish. It might be that this species is not as poisonous as the types eaten in Japan.
Northern puffers aren't toxic, however, the skins may have toxins
Fugu is amazing!
When we had it, wasn't that crazy expensive about 100 PP for combo of 4-5 dishes consisting of sashimi, hotpot, fried fuku, with some fugu saki.
`This video contains footage of a fish being killed`
that's a bit too late.
Can I bark "WEEB" on your comment?
Not the stabbing moment though.
No in the intro the chef was slicing it and removing the skin not killing it there's a difference.
@@kenzah5205 but peta would still be triggered
It's a joke.
Who’s here from the “Aeughhh” meme
🥕😫
augh 🥕🐡
Me
What meme
xKremit please explain?
You know how I know this must taste amazing? Just think about how many people had to die to figure out which parts were poisonous. To risk life and limb for some fish, it must be phenomenal
In the video they said its almsot tasteless
@Ben Connor The messed up part of me thinks they probably experimented on POWs from rival tribes way back in the day
I’ve heard it’s actually pretty mid
No actually I think people eat it just for the experience of trying something new, and eating a poisonous fish that could kill you is definitely a new experience for most people
Personally I wouldn't risk my life to eat an almost tasteless chewy fish that could kill you and your wallet, but that's just my opinion
Maybe they fed different parts to animals?
1:31 That vibing fish on the left pog.
Super expensive, super toxic, super difficult to prepare... and all you get is chewiness and bland taste..
Nope, not for me!!
I DEMAND my money's worth!!!!
I rather go eat at Shoney's!
well, when you're rich you have to be creative on how you flex
Did you know farts in a can cost 10$ for one of them just to smell it
It probably tastes better when your rich and dont know how to spend money
Just like gamer girl bathwater
Fugu: *"Has deadly toxin to avoid being eaten"*
The Japanese: *"I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that."*
@Hittem With The Slappa Whammy Technically both of you are true.
Is that a JoJo reference
The japanese: that sign cant stop me because I cant read
@@YurinovichDornburg no its not
So that's how fugo was named
I am intrigued and scared of the prospect at the same time. When I go to Japan I would love to try this delicacy but idk if dying by eating something I know is poisonous is the way to go 😅
I was able to eat this fish (Fugu) in Japan 10 years ago during winter time.....It’s really expensive but really delicious when it was served as sashimi😀👍👏❤️❤️❤️
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Pufferfish: evolves to make itself poisonous to predators.
Humans: find a way to eat pufferfish
Pufferfish: am i a joke to you
puffer fish: am i a meal to you?
@Big Hosafat why do I find this so funny
@mago lago ? Why shut up, i made a joke?
also Pufferfish: Eugh
"years of academy training wasted!"
Its simple to avoid being poisoned drink Milk
Haha minecraft
Minecraft gang
Minecraft
@Joshua Salsman oooo
@Kraestael The Fallen actually your not supposed to try to throw up if you sawwloe anything toxic because it can do a lot more damage on its way back up if you do throw it back up
Love the background music
Fantastic 👍❤🐡🍣
Ive tried fugu, it doesnt taste that good, but i think people love it because of the experience of eating something “dangerous” and the process the fish goes through before arriving to our plate.
It’s a poisonous fish. Nature designed for us not to eat it.
Japan: 🤷♂️
You could sell literal human shit for extravagant prices and people who have the money to waste would still buy it as a sort of flex. The social status achieved through the consumption/purchase of expensive products is an insane disease of modern society.
I would only continue to eat a food item if I liked it.
Then they complain when they are sent to the hospital
Yep
Y’all realize that they had to have people figure out which parts are and aren’t toxic? I want to know who those brave souls were.
probably animals
No? They simply test the fish for toxins lmfao
@@brick9017 not centuries ago
Experience of several generations.
We all stand on the shoulder of giants
One of my most favorite fish !
Best thumbnail ever
I ate this in Japan a decade ago without knowing what it was. I loved it and asked our host what it was. He eventually found the right English words to explain, and he then watched the colour drain from our faces.
U ate a poisonous fish whithout knowing?🤔
@@Jius86 yep, (licensed) chefs remove the poison before serving, so it’s not uncommon to find some blowfish on a platter of assorted sashimi.
@@user-qn6yt3zx3w great. Thanks for the info
i want to ask a question that is totally off topic, (sorry btw)
am i a maniac for liking video footage of fish organs getting harvested out of their body or is it really just me?
Lies again? Paris France
Fugu: *Has toxins to prevent people eating it*
People: *Eat it anyway*
Fugu: *Thumbnail*
Hijacking other people comments makes you gay
Franko ok but I didn’t steal anyone’s comment
@@justinruiz5054 "look mom I'm white knight!!1"
But you're just miserable loser.
does eating the puffer male fish testicales make me gay? its considered a delicacy
@@fffUUUUUU and you're over there making fun of people when you're in a basement wishing for the girls you will never get in your life.
I never ate fugu! But loved watching its making!!!! So delicate and artistic!!!! 👌
2:07 anyone else see that heart still beating? Lol
1:35 that one fish hasn’t given up like the others.
the fish: wiggle intensifies
3:36
Just keep swimming...just keep swimming...
@@Cryogenius333 is this a jojo reference ?
@[BosS] HITMAN 20 vegan spotted
Eating fugu hardly seems worth all the trouble. I heard the flavor isn’t all that great either.
Plus you are never 100% sure if it is prepared properly and isn't lethal. I'd not take such a risk!
HindsightPOV It’s kinda a novelty I guess. Maybe a sort of flex of money
It's chewy and bland imo
LOL we just watched the trouble and got various ppls take on flavor.
@@Lukaswilms yes but this one will
Try to visit Cebu, Philippines. We do have here Nilarang which is a soury soup and we use puffer fish and it only cost $0.6 each. The best seafood delicacy you would ever have in your entire life.
You forgot to mention that the farmed versions are not toxic.
*"Tiger Fugu is harmed for educational purposes in this video."*
Lol
*Killed**
They were going to kill it anyway 🤷♂️.
SOVIET ARMY FIGHT FOR VLADMIR LENIN it doesn’t taste that great, people just eat to flex their wealth.
Remember when poisoned after eating a Puffer Fish.
*Drink a Bucket of Milk*
Man of culture right here
epic
Uhhhh you know that milk does not actually cure poison from a pufferfish, you have to seek medical attention!
Rainier Lozano r/wooosh
@@rainierlozano3093 it's a joke, in Minecraft if you get poisoned or get an effect like hunger you drink a bucket of milk to get rid of it.
1:35 that fish has enough power in its tail to start a rc car
Now I wanna know more about that training and test.
That one fish at 1:31 looks like it had a good time in the sea before it was taken away.
:c
TAKE ME BACK!!! REEEEEEEEE
I was laughing so hard at it 😂
AtlantisStarz •-• boy, at least the death of that fish will be quick.!
My wife keeps insisting on me to try puffer fish after we got me a $500k life insurance policy. 🤔🤔
tigerbiterhater Don’t do it.
lmao, don't eat that shit boi!
Do it
As long as it´s not homemade^^
That fresh taste you say? HA! Your tasting the mixture of poison and rotting fish meat! XD
That hidden hand signal auction was so cool.
Not sure if it's a camera trick, but that purplish aura from the pufferfish sake looks simply mesmerizing.
EDIT: I now realize that purple aura is literal FIRE. Never heard of flaming sake before!
This video reminds me of the fish that goes "A U E G H"
Æughhhhhhhh
AUGHHHH OHHHh (dies)
🥕🐡
Imagine eating a fish so tasteless you have to use words like chewy clean and fresh to describe it and the fish population goes extinct so people can flex their wealth
There are dishes with gold...
There's no better way to describe it
Eat the rich
@@leonlawson2196 A man is what he eats.
Let's be rich together!
Indeed, surely wagyu and caviar make more sense.
“Pufferfish testicles are a delicacy in Japan.”
*At this point nothing surprises me.*
The chef in the video says 'in Tokyo...' because the fugu license is given per prefecture, not nationwide, in case you're wondering. You need to decide in which region you want to open your restaurant before thinking of getting a license.
1:33
Fish in the 4th Bin: “Go Crazy, Go Stupid”
Me: Just a little off the top
My Barber: 4:12
You straight up get skinned
I dont know why this made me laugh so hard😭🤣
Say no more
Barber: what can I do for you sir?
Guy: you know them puffer fish in Japan?
Barber: say no more fam.. 4:12
SJDHSHSJSJSDJDJDK MY HUMOUR IS DEAD AT THIS POINT-
Fugu : I am much poisonous than cyanide
Japanese : We will pretend like we never heard that.
Proceeds eating 😎
0:23 I'm so high i thought this is the reason why they are expensive
“This video contains footage of a fish being killed”
*the floor here is made out of floor*
Every sixty seconds in Africa a minute passes
This is to prevent the millions of kinder-gardeners who watch Business Insider from being traumatized
To warn the Karen's from being triggered
2:03 even at that point, the heart was still pumping..
O ri yuh
what is so gruesome abut that?
I eat this for free because of the fishermen of my tribe. It's sold quite well at a high rate. We use the bones to make stews or broths.
*I see why Bigpuffer never even dare's to leave his house.*
“But what happened to Mr. Puff?...”
“Mrs. Puff doesn’t like to talk about it”
This comment is underrated lmfao
A G
She doesn’t live in Japan
I feel so bad because of how cute and confused the fish looks
Stxven21 then I suggest that you don't see how rabbits are killed for food.
3:35 :(
Stxven21 listen, stuff like this happens to fishes all over the world, it's hard stuff, but that's how it is. Hell, i have seen sardines suffocate to death inside buckets, goats and cows being killed with sledgehammers, tortoises being torn open alive. For those living in farms, it's a normal but messy business.
novato455 that’s deep
This is a normal comment I'm happy.
I'd love to eat tyger puffer fish sashimi served by the expert Japanese cook.
Me: How much for puffer fish?
Waiter: 60$ sir.
Me: *æüæ*
I changed the comment so now you don't know why I have so many likes.
I mean, Why are they a delicacy, what can be so good about them?
Imagine drinking the fugu's nut
I think even gay ppl don't eat testicles (if speaking literally).😅
*it’s only gay if the balls touch*
@@QuackLegion
your comments are extremely cursed
Chef: _I'll skin you alive_
Fugu: (●˙-˙●)
@Auto Driven (o°ω°o)
Im having a hard time telling which ones are the eyes
5:13 imagine waking up every day and greeted by this treat (the city)
Animals: * become poisonous so people don't eat them *
Humans: *YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER*
I don't care if you paid me, I would never risk eating that. My unlucky ass would wind up being one of the people that got a poisonous part of the puffer fish because the chef had a bad day.
LordDiscord the chances of you getting poisoned by fugu is astronomically low in japan. the tests don’t stop once the chef achieves his license
That's how my bad luck would work. I'd be the one poor sap out of several HUNDRED who gets poisoned eating that. I'm not interested in rolling the dice. LOL.
Same even if I will be rewarded the whole world my unfortunate unlucky shit life would end being poisoned. I would even get that 0.000000001 chance because thats how my life works. I am already unfortunate at everything in my life
There's a greater chance that your plane will crash on your way to Japan than you getting poisoned by eating Fugu. Heck, driving to the airport is deadlier.
@@aphus8504 why fugu man! Try other different japanese dishes, french, italian, mexican or indian cuisine. I bet fugu isn’t that much tastier than feeling a new mornig alive.
looks ugly like me but has more worth than me.😔
try NoFap
@@sirlean-beautysubliminals-5515 what?
@@joncook7510 what?
vc lol
@@sirlean-beautysubliminals-5515 what?
Puffer fish: what a lovely day!
Japan: Good morning.
Thanks for the warning. This still caught me off guard.
1:32 bro that fish down there do be vibing
Fish: Exists
Japan and China: Extinction time
damn yeah yeah not just fish but literally anything alive
Not just japan and china, literally every country does it
Cows: Exists
US: Extinction time
Btw you commented this on an other comment making it less funny and more childish
@@urbid6273 proof?
Bf 109 K-4 try to find a comment with
Weird monster exists
Japanese: eat
The background music is so subtle. Where I can find it? Like finding torafugu in the sea?
so abt the taste, does it really have a great taste or just cause its poisonous(hard to serve)?
1:31
that fish be dancing?
ngl he be vibing doe 😳😳
2:05 The heart is still beating there
Tiến Đạt Trần wow ur right
Oh shit
Thats just the muscle spasm.
Immortal fish being cooked alive
So? They explicitly said the fish is BRAIN dead. Which means it feels nothing, sees nothing, is not awake. The heart might be still beating but that does not mean the fish is suffering.
Insider: "Why Pufferfish is so Expensive"
Video in the first five seconds: DROPS FISH.
Fugu : Has a powerful toxin to protect itself from predators*
Humans : "Did we stutter ?"