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May 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 pm

Fugu

Here is a pretty interesting video about fugu (Japanese puffer fish) from National Geographic.

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    You’d expect NatGeog to get the name of the market right (Tsukiji, not Tsukuji). And ‘taboo’?

    overoften on May 3rd, 2008
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    @overoften: indeed. baka’s there.

    Nice little video btw, I forgot that it must’ve dangerous indeed for the bums to eat from the trash at a fuguya heh. I still want to give it a try someday. Anyone else tried it?

    Papigiulio on May 3rd, 2008
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    Geeze, come on NG. Saki? SAKI? You screw up the name of the fish market, ok, that’s bad, but on top of it you can’t even be assed to pronounce sake correctly?
    Sigh.

    Tranzic on May 3rd, 2008

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