To the untrained eye this looks like a nicely presented fish on a plate in a restaurant. Well, you'd almost be right, except this fish (we'll call him Berty for the sake of this entry) came to a short end just before ending up on my plate. Well, that isn't strictly true because Berty was still alive and kicking on my plate! Unfortunately I lost the movie file that I took on my phone, but trust me, his head was still flipping... Having done my best to eat what I could, picking with my chopsticks, I looked down and noticed a tiny heart beating in the soy sauce. I guess this was like an acid bath ending for the poor guy (SORRY!). It was still warm too ... RIP Bert. Do I like sashimi? The fresher the better :)
Not content with eating live fish, crazy Japanese people then enjoy the carcass remains deep fried which is quickly bought back to you... Time to leave said restaurant methinks. The acquarium sized fish tanks on the way in should have started alarm bells ringing! I kid you not this really happened.
I will add this to my list of crazy food to try in Japan including: raw horse meat (expensive and overated), whole deep fried miniture crabs (yes shells and all - very tasty), nattou (small globulous brown sticky beans that smell like pooh and taste like earwax), fish guts (rank smell, rank taste), Whale (sorry if this is controversial, but man it tastes good if not highly priced).
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