If you’ve never heard about the dangers of eating pufferfish, they’re more than just urban legend. Although routinely served at restaurants across Japan, their poison is so potent that chefs have to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s clinical description of tetrodotoxin is as follows: “The consumption of toxic amounts of tetrodotoxin results primarily in neurologic and ...

Think about walking into a restaurant and ordering a meal where just one microscopic mistake in preparation could put you six ...

Picture yourself wielding a knife over one of nature's most lethal creatures. One slip, one miscalculation, and you've just ...

Delicately sliced and arranged like a crane for this sashimi platter, fugu is pretty as a picture. For some diners, the risk and the myth around fugu-eating is precisely its charm. Photos Provided to ...

What can you do to prepare yourself for dinner at a restaurant where the speciality is a fish so chock full of poison that it will kill you in minutes if it’s improperly prepared? For one, you might ...

For many of us Japanese food-lovers, pufferfish is on our list of must-try dishes but we tend to put it off due to concerns over its extremely potent toxins as well as rarity. Well, not anymore. After ...

I am staring at death on my plate. Or rather, death is staring up at me from my plate. A thin, white strip of sashimi puffer fish or Japanese fugu. Also called blow fish and puffer fish, it is one of ...

Eating a Japanese blowfish can definitely kill you, but you can rest assured this 10-year-old girl will prepare it safely. The fugu, also known as blowfish, preparation certification test is one of ...

The poisonous puffer fish, which inflates itself into a small balloon when caught, lives in most of the world’s oceans. But only in Japan, where it is called fugu, has it become a national tradition.