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The fugu (河豚; 鰒; フグ) in Japanese, bogeo (복어; -魚) or bok (복) in Korean, and hétún (河豚; 河魨) in Standard Modern Chinese [a] is a pufferfish, normally of the genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or a porcupinefish of the genus Diodon, or a dish prepared from these fish. Fugu possesses a potentially fatal poison ...
Takifugu, also known by the Japanese name fugu (河豚, lit. "river pig"), is a genus of pufferfish with 25 species, most of which are native to salt and brackish waters of the northwest Pacific, but a few species are found in freshwater in Asia or more widely in the Indo-Pacific region.
Takifugu rubripes, commonly known as the Japanese puffer, Japanese pufferfish, Tiger puffer, or torafugu (Japanese: 虎河豚), is a pufferfish in the genus Takifugu. It is distinguished by a very small genome that has been fully sequenced because of its use as a model species and is in widespread use as a reference in genomics.
The furtive bidding, a relic of a time when fish traders wore kimonos whose sleeves obscured their hands as they signaled their bids, is part of the insular world of Japanese pufferfish, or fugu ...
In 2018, a supermarket in Gamagori city, in Japan’s central Aichi prefecture, issued an alert after two people consumed potentially dangerous fugu products they bought from a supermarket.
1) Fugu fish Fugu is a Japanese delicacy, compromised of specially prepared pufferfish. Chefs are required to have YEARS of training to aquire a license to make fugu .
1.4 Fish. 1.5 Reptiles. 1.6 ... Fugu (pufferfish) Ginbuna; ... a species of venomous snake that exists in all areas of Japan except certain islands including Okinawa ...
Fugu still remains a prized delicacy in Japan, despite its dangerous nature Image credits: yab While Japanese blowfish may be a delicious dish, every organ of it is poisonous — including its skin.