This is a fried fish that is to be eaten while the head of the fish is still moving it’s mouth and eyes. I do not understand this..
This is a fried fish that is to be eaten while the head of the fish is still moving it’s mouth and eyes. I do not understand this..
by RileyRhoad
33 Comments
LillianNZ96
I feel like anyone who eats things like this have something wrong with them .
Just kill it bruh
GoochSnatcher
Fucking vile and barbaric. I wish the worst for people who do this shit.
Faexinna
That is so unnecessarily cruel. Kill the damn fish, it makes no difference for the taste.
ThisSpaceForRent45
No thank you.
goteachyourself
Apparently the fish is dead, this is just involuntary muscle reflexes. So it’s only the ILLUSION of feasting on the corpse of a still-suffering being.
There’s a certain breed of dining that celebrates the suffering inflicted, often involving living animals, and it’s deeply disturbing.
robaroo
This is just some people’s fetish. Nothing more nothing less. It’s gross and I hope the saying of how you behave in this life is how you are treated in the next comes back to bite them in the ass, no pun intended. Maybe.
desighful
I could not eat this. I struggle just seeing the faces of boiled crawfish, let alone a moving face. Bleh.
GreatJeansFan
I’m guessing it’s just a gimmick where the muscles spasm if you pour something on them. (seen it before with other seafood)
Fish is long dead. Looks gutted as well.
That being said, you still need to be pretty sick in the head to enjoy a meal like this.
Zhryuriva
What the fuck?
Kindly_Region
Tf is even the point? You’re not eating food, you’re torturing an animal.
HereOnCompanyTime
This is beyond fucked. Apparently it’s popular in China and originates from Chiayi, Taiwan.
Excellent-Signature6
This isn’t stupid food, this is fucked up food.
sjmiv
literally animal cruelty
ShartistInResidence
I was at a seafood banquet in China one time where the centerpiece was a lobster that had its tail removed and the anterior portion placed on ice so it was swaying it’s claws and antennae as it arrived at the table. I thought that was pretty wild but this is a little more intense
balsamicnightmare
This is just sadistic. I’m not even vegan or anything but there is just no reason to have an animal suffer so pointlessly
slutty_muppet
This is a violation of the Noachide laws.
Redbeardnglasses
Cruelty disguised as delicacy.
StableLower9876
so cruel
Careless_Skin7213
But why???
Zealousideal_Law5216
Gotta be a sign of mental instability to want to eat this.
Jonny_vdv
I assume the poultry option on the menu is ortolan
RottingFireBall
In Japan there’s something similar called ’Ikizukuri’, personally I haven’t tried it however it is like a sashimi platter served on top of a fish where its head is still moving. Also when I recently went to Japan, I was at a bbq style place where you grill your own fish, however I did not know that the fish was still alive and skewered. So it was slightly traumatising grilling a fish that’s still moving.
radarthreat
Only a psychopath would even conceive of this, much less consume it
Bananafoofoofwee
“It’s ok to eat fish, ’cause they don’t have any feelings.” -Cobain
CaptainPoset
If you apply salt to muscles relatively closely after death, they will move. That’s how this movement works: The fish was bought as a still living fish, killed, fried and seasoned, so that the head’s muscles still react with contraction to the seasoning.
O8ee
wouldn’t it be ~1 second less fresh if you lopped the poor thing’s head off before frying?
dyaasy
The Yin-Yang Fish, IIRC it was a restaurant in Taiwan. They caught a lot of flack for this, and they eventually stopped making them due to the backlash.
Btw, still going on because they don’t catch as much flack:
* ikizukuri – live sashimi * drunken shrimp – sometimes eaten alive sometimes not * sannakji – live chopped up octopus
In fact, Japan has a whole dining subculture devoted to live seafood consumption, Odorigui.
BlackLeykis
dudestir127
If the fish is still alive that is cruel, and creepy. If the fish is dead and those are final muscle spasms, that’s still creepy.
feb914
the fish is already dead, but just recently, thus the eyes and mouth still twitching.
the reason why is because east asian culture (chinese especially, though i’ve seen korean eating live octopus) really value fresh seafood, and the fact that the fish look alive is to show how fresh the food is.
this dish is not that common. the more common dishes in this category are for example:
– you go to a seafood chinese restaurant and you can pick the actual crab or lobster that you want to eat. in a restaurant i go you can take picture with the lobster/crab because they’re butchered.
– a chinese dish called (translated to english) “[drunken shrimp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_shrimp)” where they soak shrimp into alcohol then eaten. the variation i’ve eaten is that they show the shrimp are still alive, pour alcohol into the bowl, then lit a fire to cook them, serving them half cooked, not alive. but according to wikipedia apparently there’s a version where they’re served alive.
yournamehere10bucks
Whats that fish monster Junji Ito wrote about? Gyo? This reminds me of that.
snowball313
As I understand it, this dish was banned in Taiwan and this is an old video.
pickled_penguin_
Damn dude. You didn’t even wait 12 hours before stealing this and reposting it. Lame
33 Comments
I feel like anyone who eats things like this have something wrong with them .
Just kill it bruh
Fucking vile and barbaric. I wish the worst for people who do this shit.
That is so unnecessarily cruel. Kill the damn fish, it makes no difference for the taste.
No thank you.
Apparently the fish is dead, this is just involuntary muscle reflexes. So it’s only the ILLUSION of feasting on the corpse of a still-suffering being.
There’s a certain breed of dining that celebrates the suffering inflicted, often involving living animals, and it’s deeply disturbing.
This is just some people’s fetish. Nothing more nothing less. It’s gross and I hope the saying of how you behave in this life is how you are treated in the next comes back to bite them in the ass, no pun intended. Maybe.
I could not eat this. I struggle just seeing the faces of boiled crawfish, let alone a moving face. Bleh.
I’m guessing it’s just a gimmick where the muscles spasm if you pour something on them. (seen it before with other seafood)
Fish is long dead. Looks gutted as well.
That being said, you still need to be pretty sick in the head to enjoy a meal like this.
What the fuck?
Tf is even the point? You’re not eating food, you’re torturing an animal.
This is beyond fucked. Apparently it’s popular in China and originates from Chiayi, Taiwan.
This isn’t stupid food, this is fucked up food.
literally animal cruelty
I was at a seafood banquet in China one time where the centerpiece was a lobster that had its tail removed and the anterior portion placed on ice so it was swaying it’s claws and antennae as it arrived at the table. I thought that was pretty wild but this is a little more intense
This is just sadistic. I’m not even vegan or anything but there is just no reason to have an animal suffer so pointlessly
This is a violation of the Noachide laws.
Cruelty disguised as delicacy.
so cruel
But why???
Gotta be a sign of mental instability to want to eat this.
I assume the poultry option on the menu is ortolan
In Japan there’s something similar called ’Ikizukuri’, personally I haven’t tried it however it is like a sashimi platter served on top of a fish where its head is still moving. Also when I recently went to Japan, I was at a bbq style place where you grill your own fish, however I did not know that the fish was still alive and skewered. So it was slightly traumatising grilling a fish that’s still moving.
Only a psychopath would even conceive of this, much less consume it
“It’s ok to eat fish, ’cause they don’t have any feelings.”
-Cobain
If you apply salt to muscles relatively closely after death, they will move. That’s how this movement works: The fish was bought as a still living fish, killed, fried and seasoned, so that the head’s muscles still react with contraction to the seasoning.
wouldn’t it be ~1 second less fresh if you lopped the poor thing’s head off before frying?
The Yin-Yang Fish, IIRC it was a restaurant in Taiwan. They caught a lot of flack for this, and they eventually stopped making them due to the backlash.
Btw, still going on because they don’t catch as much flack:
* ikizukuri – live sashimi
* drunken shrimp – sometimes eaten alive sometimes not
* sannakji – live chopped up octopus
In fact, Japan has a whole dining subculture devoted to live seafood consumption, Odorigui.
If the fish is still alive that is cruel, and creepy. If the fish is dead and those are final muscle spasms, that’s still creepy.
the fish is already dead, but just recently, thus the eyes and mouth still twitching.
the reason why is because east asian culture (chinese especially, though i’ve seen korean eating live octopus) really value fresh seafood, and the fact that the fish look alive is to show how fresh the food is.
this dish is not that common. the more common dishes in this category are for example:
– you go to a seafood chinese restaurant and you can pick the actual crab or lobster that you want to eat. in a restaurant i go you can take picture with the lobster/crab because they’re butchered.
– a chinese dish called (translated to english) “[drunken shrimp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_shrimp)” where they soak shrimp into alcohol then eaten. the variation i’ve eaten is that they show the shrimp are still alive, pour alcohol into the bowl, then lit a fire to cook them, serving them half cooked, not alive. but according to wikipedia apparently there’s a version where they’re served alive.
Whats that fish monster Junji Ito wrote about? Gyo? This reminds me of that.
As I understand it, this dish was banned in Taiwan and this is an old video.
Damn dude. You didn’t even wait 12 hours before stealing this and reposting it. Lame