On TK’s birthday (also my last day in Nara), we went to a nice Izakaya and had supper.
Very awesome food.
We had some egg thing.
And Gyu Tan. (Cow Tongue)
Ebi Fry
And the freshest sashimi in the world. I’m not kidding you.
So i was camwhoring with the fish.
And then. Something happened and scared the cheesecake out of me.
The fish wagged its tail at me.
At first i thought i was hallucinating. You know, last day, emo and all that crap (“oh i think i am able to communicate with fish”). Then. I realized the bloody fish was alive.
Imagine someone slices your belly open, cuts it into 6 pieces, put some radish shreds and shiso leaves on top of the open wound like very decorative liddat, then proudly place the six slices of your belly back on top, and then puts you on a plate and serves it to some hungry old fat man. And then you find yourself thinking what turf is this mad chef doing to my body?!? You yell in sheer fear, and you watch the glutton picking one piece of your tummy up and proceed to eat it and sigh in delight. And you go like wtf can you stop eating my meat? You shout HELP!!! hysterically (but you can only hear a faint voice coming through your non-existent belly) but the idiot keeps on eating you like very shiok liddat, but you start feeling weaker and weaker… so you start to kick frantically around with your tail with and your last full strength, and the fella goes like “what turf?” in utter disbelief…
That’s what i imagined the fish was feeling. I swear it was a very disturbing sight. Very tragic.
How turf….
Nah watch yourself.
Sorry video got typo but too lazy to change.
Anyway, it is called Ikizukuri.
Ikizukuri is Japanese for “prepared alive”, and refers to the preparation of sashimi from a still living animal. The sashimi chefs who prepare ikizukuri are skilled enough to fillet and gut the fish without killing it, and then the ikizukuri is served on a plate with the heart still beating.
Eat a moving fish, anyone?
PS: I read the letter. T_T
Update: Ei please la you all PETA activists, it’s not like we specifically asked the chef to serve a half chopped dancing fish just so we could laugh and mock and poke it. I was mortified to see it move so what you reckon we should do about it? Scold the chef and then throw the fish back into its tank is it? Don’t eat KFC la. My guess is that it was an alive animal called chicken before it become KFC. Sien.
OMGGGGGGG. Did you eat the fish after that?
Yes i did!!! Was goooood! (But disturbing)
wow. just wow. i dont think i could it it like that. seeing the fish seeing me eating it. uh gosh T__T
Yeah can imagine. :S
But it’s quite amazing you know,
being chopped into pieces yet still being able to wag the tail.
Must be dead painful and torturing.
But oh well, end its suffering by eating it!
(wtf I sound so cruel)
cruel!!!!!!!!!!
why must they eat like that ;__;
natasha: ya kinda spoilt my appetite but i tot wtf if they didnt serve the sashimi on the fish itself it would still move one ma.
lavender: ya lo!! i couldnt believe it for the first 10 sec i tot my eye got problem.
Eee: youtube got more disturbing videos! there was this girl who wanted to eat “swimming bone”. SO the sliced one side of the fish, served as sushi for her, and then put the fish back into the aquarium and the fish could still swim.
T_T
Ooh oo.. No more Japan flag 🙁
OMG !! I don’t wanna eat Sashimi anymore… Eeeee…. 😀
How come the video no subtitle geh? *LOL*
wtflivefishyuckpfftptuih~!!! >.<
well, cruel or not..MOST girls still like to eat japs food..LOL
Nah, link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3_-tMS3zEY
Omg. reminds me when I was having steamboat with fresh prawns which were poked through with a stick o.O when you throw them into the pot, they still wag their tails O.O
PS: My flag’s weird o.O I’m in Malaysia right now. haha!
ahlost; i did think of subtitle but i reckon its more fun without it. 😉
yatz: alive or not they were still killed. so same la!
steffie: hahha virtual holiday in Aus.
thank god im not a fish.
eating it is already cruel enough. but eating it alive, with parts of its body detached is totally not moral at all. how would you feel if you were being tortured very bad, but not enough to kill you. and that guy in the video even humiliates the fish. shame on him.
that is a very disturbing POV from the fish indeed! lol.
omg very very disturbing indeed wtf *shudders*
Poor fish. But izakayas are really nice. 🙂
Wow..ur nihongo is pretty good…sounds like a real Jap
wtf wtf wtf….eating it alive is so damn cruel
It looks kindda disturbing though… oh poor fish.
I still prefer sashimi without the fish head. =X
Cheesie aren’t you very fluent in japanese? Sukoi ne!!!!!
Nice nice nice!
I would love eating that!
…Ikizukuri eh, will see if anyone in KL can do that. Absolutely fabulous!~
OMG.. seems creepy to eat a moving fish. Pity the fish. t.t
ANd your japanese.. woot.. Hiong~ =P
omg…things happen, things like eating cow dung and life fish happen…
at first I thought this is disturbing.. but after I browse through the youtube..
they are more disturbing 1 @@
Aww,poor fishie. 🙁
eh you sound so cute speaking japanese!
About the fish, have you seen the one where they deepfry the fish while it’s still living, and when they serve it, it’s still alive!
OHMYLOLLIPOP! This is creeepy !
But quite eye-opening that the fish can actual live on . XD
Japanese is sick, so is your bf. Imagine you married to a japanese
Cow tongue satay, yummy~~~
OMG… thats cruel.
Sail on Sea Sheppard! Save whales from Slaughter!
OMFG I wouldn’t be able to eat that….nor the cow tongues, coz that’s just weird! O_o See, I’ve been to Asia for like 6 months liao but I stayed very angmoh still. Hahah. 😛
Sauna prawns. I tried once in Macau. Live prawns thrown into a pot to marinate. The prawns wriggled n wriggled. After they got dizzy from the liquor, then they are thrown into some hot coals to be cooked. My sis saw that and never touch the dish at all. But to me…yummy…heheh..
Your Jap is really good…..
ewewewew..that’s…that….tail….body parts…wagging……ALIVE……eat…..in mouth…ALIVE….
I could NOT imagine myself doing that. ohmygod.
but if its yummy.. then yeah, i’ll do it =D
d fish can really still swim? ( in the youtube 1 )
damn cool lorh
hahaa
chessie.
can add u in msn ma?
=)
You learned Japanese slang too ar ;p
Btw, thx for sharing with us the living Sashimi
Errrr.. I’m not gonna eat sashimi for .. 2 days.
Oh gosh, I don’t think I would have dared to eat it.
That’s way too disturbing for me. I like good food as much as the next connoisseur, but HOLY HELL IT LIVES.
wtf. the fish was alive! -.-
omg. i dont think i’d be able to even life my chopsticks to eat it -.-
Hello Cheesie!!
I don’t usually comment, but I think you will like to see this. I’ve experience eating moving food as well. Octopus tentacles. Detached from its main body yet still moving. Lol.
I guess fish is just as bad. Haha. Great experience though.
Check it out. http://story-of-pei.blogspot.com/2009/01/food-and-delicacies_14.html
i think it’s LIVE fish dear :/
and how is he holding his chopstick!!!
Great sin that is…. Imagine if that is another type of animal…?
That is just vile! I can’t believe you just stood there taking a video for over 2 minutes while your boyfriend ate, poked and prodded the poor thing.
Unbelievable!
omg T.T so disturbing
sk: 1. i sat there, not stood. 2. not only did i sit there for over two minutes taking video while my boyfriend ate, poked and prodded the poor thing, after i stopped filming i proceeded to join the sumptuous feast. if that makes you feel better, 🙂
I want to say I will never eat sashimi ever again, but I can’t cos I love it too much :,( It IS the freshest way to prepare the fish, but it’s too cruel 🙁 I cannot eat it. I think I will cry at the table. I wonder if fish have pain nerve… cos I guess it’s ok if they don’t feel pain. Definitely not halal food 😛
Chriso: Means you never read my blog properly. And he holds chopstick perfectly and he laugh at me everyday when i use chopsticks.
SK, what do you expect her to do? Save the fish? /:)
Oh gosh…I think if it were me, I’d chop that fish’s head off (kill it, I mean -_- ) before eating. It’s way too disturbing to eat it when it’s moving!
Really enjoyed reading your post on Japan… Keep it up !!!
# cheesie MALAYSIA says:
January 18th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Yes i did!!! Was goooood! (But disturbing)
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YOUR MIND IS IN DISTURBIA!
oh my gosh that is so cruel! how could you!!!
eating and watching it alive … and act like nothing :/
YOU ANIMAL ABUSER I BET YOU ATE DOLPHINS AND NOT BLOG ABOUT IT
T^T..the fish…..poor thing..OTL
Charlene : It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. Kill it, dumbass!
urm…I have a question…was the cow’s tongue taken from the cow alive?
goodness! i thought the fish will only wag it’s tail once or twice but it was doing it so vigorously! jeebus. and the cow’s tongue……how did that taste like?
poor fishie, rather cruel but it would be even more cruel not to eat it. After all, it already suffered the pain to be served to you, the least you could do is give it the honour of being eaten 😛
OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.. yatz showed me the damn vid of the fish being put back into the awaurium wan..
suddenly i come ure blog. and omgggggg i was like emo-ing just now adi..
if i was served that i would probabaly have fainted on the spot or cried or something @_@ fucken hell @_@ damn wtfffffff weiii
SK: Oh but it does, Mr Smartypants. So why not you run along now to the ocean and kill them all and save them from the suffering of becoming sashimi. Go ahead.
no way i’m eating a live fish!!
egg thing looks like tofu lah! is it mixed??
uhm, no offense, I love sashimi and all, but it’s pretty disturbing to eat something that’s still very much alive and wagging its tail still :S
:~(
Poor fish…
Japanese are STILL the CRUELEST ppl on earth..they never learn!
AH OMFG?! OMFG????
Anyway I watched this taiwanese news(?) where they featured a chef cooking just the body of the fish, leaving the head raw. Apparently it was still alive when everyone was picking its flesh.
And you speak pretty good japanese! How long did you take to master the language?
USO!! iyaa… haha.. very disturbing indeed… i’ve seen lobster which are still alive, served in this way too.. in my aunt’s rastaurant ;A; but I don’t eat seafood because I’m scared of em anyway ;A; lol… hehehe wish we could hear more of you talking in japanese :3
“My guess is that it was an alive animal called chicken before it become KFC. Sien.”
Cheesie, I really enjoy reading your blog, but I’ve got to agree with some opinions put forward by people who disapprove of this post. Yes, animal products all come from animals which were once alive, but this is not what PETA activists were concerned about. The point they were trying to make is that the fish was tortured for very long before being killed, and it is quite cruel.
I know that things like that happen daily (KFC, MCDonald, breeding chicken and killing them in a horrible way, for instance) but this does not make this any less cruel.
that is so crueeelllllllll!!!!! Very disturbing…imagine someone eating your flesh when u’re still alive! I love sashimi myself but this personally, i would never try @_@
I feel so much better about having a leopard-skin rug now. Thanks!
That was seriously very eerie indeed. *shudders* I cant even imagine myself eating it. T_T but sorry la. i reli cant stand to see that ur bf actually poked the fish. ah… so cruel.. :'(
jz my opinion la. i still love ur blog tho. >.< even tho im feeling rather sad now. haiz.
just go to markets and see how they kill the chickens!
boil them alive…
@Dave,
Did you know tht in China ppl eat live monkey brains? They cut the head and poured hot oil over it’s brains and you eat while it’s still alive!!!
There are cruel ppl all over the world…
…btw, i m chinese.
omg i want to cry already ='(
It takes skill to cut like that. The fish is actually dead lah, it’s the nerve that is still reacting. Be vegan lor if really don’t want to be cruel but plants have life too, so we only drink water and breath air to live?
Maybe it’s just nerves, though it’s not necessarily dead I think. If the vital organs (heart, brain, etc) are still intact it’s probably still alive for some time.
But considering that most fish probably die from suffocation (or whatever fish do when they’re out of water) before they get gutted, it’s probably not a worse death than most fish get…
simon ~>> drink water and breath air…?? i dun mind about the vege.. but.. o.O no chicken.. no pork… no beef.. no prawns.. no fishie.. o.O
*whether it’s the nerve or it’s actually alive.. it’s their culture.. can’t comment on this… if it is to be said cruel.. then.. whether u eat it alive or dead.. in the end it is still end up in your stomach… nothing to argue actually… there will be never ending debate =.=” but seriously… i don’t dare to eat a moving things… lol.. worried i might get a nightmares..*
Why TK go and poke or play(whatever it is) the fish mouth @@? Geli~
i think i’ve learned something…
if i were to eat fish in Japan, i would order something fresh, but not TOOOOOOOO fresh!
おととい言った魚はこれだね？
すごい。。。新鮮だそう。
今度試したいよ！
そして生魚の話はリンゴと同じ考え方だよ。あほのCommentは意味ないね。あほだけんね。
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My company computer blocked this movie.. must go back and watch it..
anyway, feel disturbed.. haha.. TT
it’s actually quite amazing! the skills they must have to do this! OMGOMGOMG
p/s and your japanese reli quite the geng and ying lOL
woah,ur post remind me of da Preymantis dat i’d use needle to poke for my bio experiment,it wasnt dead yet ,ewwwww
this is nothing lor. Japan is one of the very few countries that still hunt whales. All in the name of food.. how can la?
Yes, youtube has worse videos.
Yes, the fish can no longer live and u can’t save it.
but yes, you had fun, didn’t u?
no offense, coz i know that different people have different preferences, and maybe someone might enjoy eating your tiny lil white dog alive 😉
Damn… What a poor little fish! Lyng, I support you. That’s totally no fun, for me
OMG. you speak such fluent japanese! with the japanese accent as well!
wow.
OMG.. ;-D
cathj: whats with the smiley :/
you’ve probably read the letter a few more times and T_T sumore. Love does that to us. 🙂
FRESH… NICE… YUMMY… *burp*
man, that was disturbing indeed!! *traumatised* i think i’ll go as far as eating salmon sashimi, that’s it.. haha
omG!! that is sooo freakin disturbing!! T_T but kinda cool with how its still alive after being cut like that~ but still poor fish!!
i wonder if all the righteous people who have mentioned how cruel it is to eat sashimi in this fashion are turning strict vegetarian?
i saw that once on terebi~ makes me wanna vomit right away~ because i was eating fish at that time!! wtfffff~~~~~
i think you angry people should flame the restaurant for having it in their menu, not cheesie. bodoh.
you should have called an ambulance and get the poor fish sent to hospital to stitch its tummy up! 😉