Like seafood? This is one creepy entree you'll probably think twice about ordering.
Odori don - The new dish where a squid comes "back to life" and dances on your plate. It has a dead squid on top that “dances” when Soy Sauce is poured on it, activating its neurons.
A restaurant has created a dish, named Odori don - literally meaning dancing squid rice bowl - by adding soy sauce to a fresh squid. The high salt content in the sauce reacts with ions in cells of the squid's tentacles, creating voltage differences, and making the squid move.
To prepare the dish, chefs at Ikkatei Tabiji, in Hakodate, Japan, first remove the head of the squid before serving the body, with tentacles intact, over a bowl of sushi rice. Seasoned soy sauce is then poured over it. As the squid is served so fresh, when the sauce is added, signals across nerve cell membranes are re-activated temporarily, making it "come back to life".
The body is then removed and prepared by the chef to be served as a side accompaniment.
The meal, which is proving popular with diners, costs around ¥2,000 or £15.30 per person. The dish is such a success that the restaurant has patented the name of the creation. Now, other restaurants in the area have begun making their own versions of the Hakodate dish, under different names.
I prefer my food REALLY dead, not NEARLY dead- ☺☺☺
ReplyDeleteI think that's disgusting, really offensive to those who respect other creatures - I certainly would boycott any restaurant that served this.
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