Pufferfish can be served for human consumption as a delicacy called fugu. It is especially popular in Japan, but you may also see it available in other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore, ...

The seaside city of Shimonoseki in southern Japan has a desirable specialty in the culinary world – the potentially deadly delicacy fugu. Also called blowfish or pufferfish, fugu is available ...

Good seafood is one of the greatest pleasures in life, and among fish lovers, fugu is a rare treat. The pufferfish, a winter delicacy, has moderately firm white flesh and a mild flavor. Its culinary ...

The Japanese pufferfish, or fugu, is best known for its ability to kill a person in as little as a few hours. During the holiday season, a fishmonger in Tokyo can sell up to $88,000 worth of the fish ...

Some seafood aficionados swear that you just have to try pufferfish sushi – unfortunately, though, if it isn't prepared correctly, it'll kill you. Scientists from China and the UK have developed a ...

TOKYO, Feb 20 (Reuters) - In the kitchen at Fukudokoro Sakai, a restaurant across the road from a seafood market at the southern tip of the main island of Japan, the chef casually hacks off the head ...

An international research consortium led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) reported on the draft sequencing, assembly, and analysis of the genome of the Japanese ...

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.

In Japan, puffer fish is considered a delicacy, but the tickle to the taste buds comes with a tickle to the nerves: fugu contains tetrodotoxin, a strong nerve toxin. In low doses, tetrodotoxin is ...