Monday, November 29, 2004

How to eat sushi

Eugene Ciurana's Sushi Eating guide is interesting reading, even if you eat sushi all of the time. His advice on Fugu (poisonous blowfish) is serious and unintentionally funny. While you're enjoying your Fugu he offers this comment:
Can you feel your tongue? No? Stop eating immediately and call the ambulance.
When I lived in Brookline, I ate sushi one or two times a week. One of the sushi places in town was a family-owned restaurant. The itamae's wife told us in glowing terms about the joy of eating Fugu. It would be cut into paper-thin slices that were spread out on a plate to look like a chrysanthemum flower. When I asked her if she was afraid of dying from Fugu poisoning she said that she wasn't worried. When they lived in Japan, her husband prepared it for her and he was an expert. And besides, she was a Buddhist and believed in reincarnation.

Note: before Andrew beats me to the punch, Homer ate what he thought was tainted Fugu in a Simpsons episode called One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish.
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