From an article on Slate about eating whale meat, here's the most bizarre dish I've ever heard of:
But enough about whale. By far the most diabolical dish I've heard tale of here in Tokyo has nothing at all to do with whales. It seems that in some restaurants, they will put live baby eels in a large bowl of water with a big block of tofu at the bottom. The bowl is heated, and as they become uncomfortably hot, the baby eels burrow down into the cooler tofu. There they are cooked alive, and served like an olive loaf. Any discussion of evil cuisine begins and ends with this recipe.
Wow.
Posted by Mike at October 14, 2003 11:25 AMHeh. I like Slate's homepage image . Anywho, that dish sounds disgusting, yet fun to watch.
Posted by: Rick at October 14, 2003 01:05 PM