We ate the poisonous puffer fish at Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market

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Tokyo is home to some of the most fascinating spectacles in existence and one of those is here at Tsukiji: the largest fish market in the world. In the wee morning hours you can find individual tuna selling for as much as $3 million. But we’re not that hungry or that rich, so we’re in search of other delicacies, like the famous fugu fish, which, with a toxin 1000 times more deadly than cyanid, can kill you just by touch. Will our gastro-adventurous family risk eating it just for bragging rights?

Contents:

  • 0:00 Intro

  • 0:50 Tsukiji Fish Market

  • 2:10 World's Priciest Strawberries

  • 4:18 Sakura Mochi and Dango

  • 6:15 Fish on a Stick

  • 7:44 The Denver Connection

  • 8:35 Seafood Soup

  • 9:25 Nori, Nori, Nori

  • 11:30 Sushi Spoons

  • 13:13 Wagyu A5 Skewers

  • 14:30 Fugu / Blowfish / Pufferfish

  • 24:19 Conclusion

  • 24:46 Outro

  • 25:15 Behind the Scenes

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