Death by Fugu
Chasing the lethal tingle of the most powerful neurotoxin on Earth.
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7 min readJan 31, 2022
Disclaimer — In no way am I condoning or recommending that you eat any type of fugu liver. Doing so could kill you.
Late last year in a small restaurant in the rainy backstreets of Fukuoka Japan, I experienced real fugu for the first time. We had the restaurant completely to ourselves except for two…