A Japanese 10-year-old has become the youngest person authorized to prepare “fugu” pufferfish — a delicacy that can kill if its poisonous parts are not properly removed.
Fifth grader Karin Tabira passed a test this summer that means she is now certified to slice and gut the fish for consumption.
She recently used her new skills to serve a platter of paper-thin slices of fugu sashimi to the governor of southern Kumamoto region where she lives.
I always wonder how many times did we try this until we found the edible bit
My guess is not many. You just need to remove organs you’d likely want to remove anyway.
It’s mostly all edible, it’s about not rupturing the glands that are toxic
I bet it was a “i’m going to freak the hell out of my friends by eating this poisonous fish lol” moment