Ordering from the Fugu menu
Fugu menus are predictable, although most fugu restaurants have their own specialty. A course meal consists of:
Fugu-sashi
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Sliced raw pufferfish eaten with ponzu sauce-soy sauce juice of Japan's native bitter orange and green chives. |
Fuguchiri
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Literally, "shredded fugu" tossed into a rich vegetable chowder-perfect on a winter day |
Fuguzosui
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A rice porridge flavored with the broth from fugu cooking. |
Mizutaki
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A tableside boiling broth dip (merely boiled fugu) served instead of zosui |
Hirezake
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Although most Westerners can't stand the strong fishy taste, toasted fugu fins are dunked in hot sake, and eaten by the hearty zealot as a crisp digestive |
Also, a restaurant may have tempura, sausage (kamaboko) or gellied consomme with tidbits (nikogori)very haute cuisine.
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