Very fresh sashimi & sushi in Tokyo, Japan

[killersushi99]

Wanna feel like a Grizzly Bear? Move to Japan and eat live fish.

[duffy3456]

Totally disgusting. This is, in its own way, just as bad as western battery farms for animals and some of the worst behaviour in slaughterhouses. It is completely wrong.

[MadameRaven]

people, the fish is NOT alive, the nerves are still sending out signals from the brain. They take it out of water , kill it, then prepare it for you. If they wanted to serve it to you while it was alive they would just shove you head in the tank with the fish!

[MrAyanoMinegishi555]

Not all of us love to eat this kind of food!

[MrAyanoMinegishi555]

We Japanese won't feel sorry for keeping our culture! And, we won't stop this kind of culture! Different countries have different cultures. People around the world should respect Japan!!!

[MrAyanoMinegishi555]

Chinese eat dogs, Korean eat dogs too. Why do the whole world have to say so many bad words to our Japanese alive sashimi culture!! People should respect our whaling and dolphin hunting culture too!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VingraciaClaire]

Dogs and cats? That's REAL sick. (I'm a Chinese and I hate people who eat the meat of ANY animal they can find lying around.)

[ItzThatAznJonny]

Food is food. End of story. Eat it or don't eat. Don't hate.

[ebeejeebee]

LMAO! all these comments and bashing each other. Let's put it this way, the technology in Asia is WAAAAYYYY more advanced than it is in the US. Asians are just WAAAAYYYY ahead in our food technology. Americans are still figuring out a way to fatten their animals to have enough meat to feed their entire country. Asians may be "sick" but Americans are big PIGS. Have you seen Food Inc on how the Americans raise their animals? and you call this Cruel.. shame on you!

[fullgrowntuna]

@ebeejeebee wait.... what? "Asians are just WAAAAYYYY ahead in our food technology." Is english not your first language or are you just a complete idiot? Your use of CAPSLOCK did change my opinion on the matter though. Nice work, champ.

[LethalResistanz]

How about we shop up your pet while it alive and serve it

[dedries]

good food

[chainlinkdreams]

oohhhh I'd eat the hell outta that but first I must ask....uuuhhh which part do I eat?

[MoBsCeNeLeMeNt]

For all of you who hate on, or bitch about my country and my culture,

Up yours, i would like to hear from you what you think of other cultures, such as stoning people to death in some and even being forgiven for sins such as murder. You may not think its related because of religion but, in this case it's culture we're talking about and following religion could be part of a culture. If you still have something to say, i would like to hear it.

Cheers

[Artharrex123]

China is not the number 1 country known to eat dogs, Korea is.

[lazyhorse22]

no need to chop it in half.

just give the whole fish.

just tell the fish that you are hungry.

[reuie]

why'd you think it's cruel??? it's just wrong because it's still moving. o__o'

anymore: kill it with fire, then we can eat with no worries.. or just don't look at the moving head and it's all good to go.

[deimosII]

omg, this so cruel, i can believe! this!...

i would not eat this food never in my life



[fusionstar916]

@deimosII Thats because your an ignorant close minded fool. Food is different through out the world. Get over yourself. You don't have to eat it, You don't have to watch it. Just keep your opinions to yourself, shut your damn mouth and let people eat what they want.

[MoBsCeNeLeMeNt]

@deimosII I'd like you to explain to me how this is really that bad.

Please, enlighten me

[hank1972]

Omg.... hypocrites. I hope all of you westerns who think this is barbaric realize that Indians think we are savages cuz we eat Cows.

[MarcusLKF001]

lol people always mistake japanese for chinese =D

any i have a test for you people who live in america... WHICH PART IS SINGAPORE IN? CHINA, MALAYSIA, JAPAN, AMERICA WHO WILL GET IT RIGHT?

[MoBsCeNeLeMeNt]

@MarcusLKF001 Nice one! haha, i lived in Singapore. You should see the people there, even as a japanese kid its pretty hard to tell (only the koreans from japs tho)

[sanctusen666]

very cruel

[Legendmaker12]

You guys can say ew as many times as you want.

I would love to eat that fish...

[RobGtr1]

F-in barbarians. I'll never go there.

[mah2ndzeldapawn]

@RobGtr1 You know whats funny? Its almost like how we treat our animals here, just much worse. Big animals that are used for food are mostly kept in small pens and forced to live in there own shit until they are slowely being killed, and smaller animals are cramped in kages, thrown around and some (ex: chickens) have their feet and beaks are cut off while their still alive. So no need for your arrogant racist comments.

[MoBsCeNeLeMeNt]

@RobGtr1

You call us barbarians because we like to serve our food in different ways?

What about cows and chickens? What? Killing them aint barbaric? A bloody slaughter house aint BARBARIC? What about the sick things that they did to other countries and cultures, IS THAT NOT F-IN BARBARIC? You'll never go there? GOOD, we don't want you. Go ahead and live all "honest and pure" then. Don't eat meat, don't kill plants. You fail to look in the mirror and see the hypocrite that you are.

[pranhu]

This is what we call psychological emperialisam-everything white people do, it's right. Media from the west feeding all the wrong imformation how cool of the west and the rest of the world just the dust of the wind. So who will be the judge?

[chainlinkdreams]

atleast I know this hasnt been sitting under a heat lamp for 30 min before it gets to my table!

[narutofangirl1213]

That's better, I've been seeing videos of Japanese food that are making me hesitant, but it's good to see food freshly made like this.

[claritynow]

This chef was all like "what this incredibly revolting plate needs is more lemon wedges."

[trecipolli]

mostri!

[TUNERJDM]

ughhh

[calvin09232009t]

I am aware that this is culture, and many people in other countries like food delicious. But in Westerner's point of view, it may be nasty.

Even though I like to eat fish and meat eater, I don't eat fish that's alive.

[bmxican90]

@calvin09232009t i bet you don't live in california or new york. California and new york have way more sophisticated taste buds than any other state in the U.S.

[fishmutation]

Ihr kranken asiatischen Schweine!

[tubetubetube]

Awesome presentation and look very tasty. If i ever go to tokyo i will look for this sashimi plate.

[nikkilovesjrock09]

omg, thats some fresh fish alright!! eww! i cant eat anything staring back at me!

[erinmin777]

why is evveryone targetting one race and saying theyare unhuman. wtf? what kind of people are says that

[erinmin777]

fking ass stoop trying to fight back. if yu have this attitude towards all asians. your gonna burn in hell

[erinmin777]

how give me a reason *btw not all asians are the same

[illuminatijews]

That's a really stupid comment. And, i don't understand where this sympathy towards animals is coming from, considering the fact that your an inbred redneck. Its ok to hate and kill people for their culture and race; but animals deserve this special treatment, may i ask why ? it comes natural for us humans to hunt and kill, meat has been part of the human diet since we came into existence. Yet, you are hating people cause they eat differently from you, how stupid are you ?

[spiderpig85]

@ShaneNankervis Next time you eat a hamburger think of the cow it came off of. People like you should have to butcher your own food for a week. I bet you would become a pussy vegetarian because your too much of a coward to kill anything before you eat it. This is life buddy, things die to feed you, and the fresher the better...

[annbomb]

i second this

[erinmin777]

lowbreed asians? wtf how could yu say that. what a mother fucking douche. dude its JUST A FISH TO EATTT wow. nothing to expect? we "LOWBREED" asians have invented much of the technology you use today. fucking retard yu piss me off

[1984rockabilly]

japanese eating like animals....bah- perverse

[mockingbirdforever]

Chinese peopl are crazy and NOT human.

[Mikkeru]

... its japanese dude.

[DropDeadSparrow]

Holy shit. They're Japanese you fucking retard.

[TotallyWickedAwsum]

I'm just a bystander who happens to be Asian and now I'm reading your comment going 'Wtf'

And in the video the head seems to be already taken off and I'm pretty sure that's just nerves twitching. Sort of like a chicken who continues to run around moments after getting it's head taken off.

If not, then it's just cruel.

[pvsvarma]

Japanese are sick!! I wish all of them get born as fish after they die and their own brothern will make them sashimi!

[annbomb]

honkeys are sick!!! i wish all of them get born as a pig, chicken, or cow after they die and their own red neck kind will bring them into a slaughter house and skin them alive!!

[MoBsCeNeLeMeNt]

@pvsvarma

You're bloody sick, you're being a complete and utter ignoranus with no life. Honestly has america brainwashed you that much? Are you completely incapable of looking at it from a different perspective or what that bloody word even means? Seriously you guys drop a massive 4 tonne atomic bomb, followed by another 4.6 tonne atomic bomb and call us sick? I hope all you burn. I dont care where, but i hope you just burn and keep on burning until there's no trace of you left.

[carlosth3]

@MoBsCeNeLeMeNt HELL YEAH!!! YOU FUCKING RULE FOR SAYING THAT!! I mean wtf ppl say

ewww id never do that!!

when they eat tourtured duck liver and cow aligators and whatever they use @ mcdonalds

[bluesoccer38]

@KaydenKolldy uhhh that might be true for farmers and otha people, but the average chinese-american make $27,000 more a year than an average american 0_O

[bluesoccer38]

@KaydenKolldy you do fucking realize that on average, the normal asian person has an iq, 8 points higher than a Caucasian. also, they have a much lesser population suffering form obesity. im not trying to be racist and offend all the other white people out there, just dumbasses like KaydenKolldy

[Judgment101]

KaydenKolldy, I agree with you 100%, races are not created equal. We, the Asians are the superior race and are the ones fit to rule this world.

The pathetic white trash that plague this world bring nothing but disaster and have have throughout history shown themselves as shameless idiots.

Both in mind and body, we are greater. We Asians are the mightier civilization. All races are equal? What a bunch of bull, the day our superior race is equal to filth is the day humanity dies out!

[AkatsukiCentral]

Okay, time to get outside some more. Take a deep breath, try to breathe the in the air slowly. I know the sunlight may be too harsh for you at first, but you'll get used to it in no time.

Follow this carefully and you shall be enlightened to view such a beautiful, natural world in all of its entirety.

[southcoast200]

Racism is so 1950's.

The funny thing about racists is that they think they are superior to other people, but in fact, their way of thinking is crippled and primal.

All races are equal. If you were taught differently, I feel bad for you, being brainwashed into that. Your mum and dad would have loved Nazi Germany.

[southcoast200]

How are you civilized? A civilized human being doesn't practice ethnocentrism or judges other cultures.

You're actually quite the opposite of civilized. Not to mention uneducated. Learn how to spell.

[yubarules77]

asian hater fuck you

[jpaulo70]

What the fuck, that's Alien food ! I'll puke now.

[HerrTenko]

What is the problem with eating raw things? Do you cook the fruits you eat? What about vegetables? Are they always cooked?

Either you're a close minded person, or you're a troll. If it's the second option, then I guess I've been trolled hard.

[HerrTenko]

Also raw fish tastes great and is really healthy.

Raw tuna tastes like meat... You should try that.

[haamerhed]

Waiter, theres a fish in my soup...

[artz900]

where exactly is the meat? lol i can't see it! but still i think its gonna be good!

[heywhatsup65]

fail

[SuperMC117]

at least you know that it's fresh

[CaptMorgasm]

Read my comment ya tool.

[CaptMorgasm]

Fuck you racist cunt. Your pitiful mind cant get over the fact that different people have different cultures and different lifestyle.I've been to places like hong kong vietnam singapore etc all the people there are lovely people most of them are alot nicer then westerners. Whos the repulsive filth now?.

[lexmark136]

you are?

[pcb815]

your so cool

[9sectionwhip]

boooo :p

[cdgskater]

ahha! So this is where Necro got that beat from...I learned TWO things from watching this video!

[innocentbutcher41]

The way mother nature intended

[MarchMadnezzz]

That's just sickening. You don't see Chinese doing that sort of thing.

[makulitkaano]

really? watch this video

/watch?v=yBsl_ZssUwA&feature=r­elated

[makulitkaano]

/watch?v=CCqKaPCmGH0&feature=r­elated

[86touge]

dude the chinese eat dogs and cats, it's a culture thing, that like saying "OMG mashed potatoes!!!, that's sickening!" Its the food that these people grew up eating, its never gonna change, so just shutup about OMG! that's wrong!

[teck209777]

o,O i knew about dogs, just some of the chinese eat dogs, China is huge and only have 3 or 4 city, they sell dogs meat..like me im chinese, i dont eat dog, i think that dog is human best friend...NEVA eat dog!

[SinclairCeltics1990]

thank god that not all chinese people eat dogs and cats -sigh-

[teck209777]

ya dog meat is for the traditional old chinese people...im chinese i dont eat that kind of staff, what i love is McDonals, Wendy's, Taco Bell, SoNic...those american food is just amazing..

[SinclairCeltics1990]

Oh lolz believe me, theyll think the same to our great food, not the old traidtional ones tho -*-

[9sectionwhip]

why..? there are cultures that keep cows and horses as pets and those that use them for food--it's just different places.

[xypsilonx]

@86touge chinese eat fetuses too -.-

[jwang604]

lol they do. Look at a video of a shanghai dish where the fish is served with the top half live and bottom half cooked. Ignorance is a bliss.

[silentchaos1]

Chinese people eat Dogs bro

[watsthatsmell]

you've eaten dog too, you just thought it was chicken.

[teck209777]

White people eat Alligator bro..

[annbomb]

white people eat snapping turtles bro and those things live in doodoo water

[MachuLawl]

Right said.

[nephildevil]

what a retarded question

american?

:d

[parrotsim]

u must be an idiot lunatic dog!!!

[earfetish]

necro

[earfetish]

what song is this because a guy samples it in hiphop

[037kondo]

I've eaten fish that moves, and fresh octopus with tentacles that still sucks your inside or your mouth.

[xwawas]

if the fish is fresh it wont smell awful..thats the power of freshness of sashimi

[myfunda007]

early man still living in decorative ages

[howard029]

yeah yeah... u already comment that in d other videos -,-"

[TheFlST]

Yeah I wasn't exactly sober at the time

[lonewolf605]

The fish is dead. I don't no any culture that would serve a live meal to you. If there is one then it's just how they are. Beleive me, there are more "crueler" (yes i know thats spelt wrong) in some countries then eating a live animal. For instance, there was a case in the uk where two guys tortured a puppy by cutting off it's legs, cutting it open from it's back down to it's bum, and laughing at it while catching it on mobile. But that's going off topic. What's happening is just nerves.

[rebelgirl88xx]

what is that song?

[sharkfriend]

its just the nerves, i can tell you, cuz i lived there for 5 years, and next year my dad's gonna go back for 4/5 years.

[hideaaaa]

If a fish still lives in front of eyes, Most Japanese feel sorry, and cannot eat.

[bebekteruk]

yes, most japanese babies, the adult would eat anything that moves!

[lesleyhenriquez]

It's all about context. I try to hump anything that moves.

[paobologna]

OMG, poor fish :-(

[GhostFace3891]

how are the prices for sushi in japan anyway? just for your typical nigiri like salmon, tuna, and toro?

[FinancialConnection]

Here is an excerpt of the sushi menu from the very same restaurant, prices in yen: Striped Marlin 52, Octopus 105, Salmon 157, Yellow Clam 157, Sea Bass 199, Eel 199, Bigfin squid 262, Gaper 304, Disk abalone 514, Botan shrimp 514.

Note that there were ~70 different types of sushi.

With 1 yen = 0,00908$ = 0,00605€ today, that makes the sushi between 0,47 and 4,6$ (0,3 to 3€) depending on the fish.

[GhostFace3891]

That's not too bad compared to the typical restaraunts in the US that charge as much as $2.25 for salmon and the quality of the food is mediocre. Im pretty sure it taste 10x better over there and you wouldnt have to worry so much about the chef making the pieces too small, mashing the rice, or slicing super thin pieces of fish for nigiri.

[palabutoh2]

its just the nerves that are making it move lol..it will stop moving in a couple of minutes lol . the fish is dead

[BlairMathis]

This fish is not alive, even though it is moving. The way it is killed is so fast and skillfully done that it doesn't even have time to react.

The fish is plucked from the tank and it's spine is immediately cut, causing it to die. The nerves, however, will continue to twitch for a minute or two.

This is done so that you can be sure the fish is fresh, not for show. Imagine getting a fish many days old - it becomes a great health risk as it ages and the potential for bacteria growth increases.

[suyuexin]

how could you eat it alive?

[FinancialConnection]

The remaining (and moving) parts were the head, bones & tail but the dishes were 2 sashimis and 2 sushis built out of the fish's flesh just cut before.

[NombreAleatorio]

this is disgusting!!! the fish is alive!!!!

[iluvecheesecake]

how mean

[PirateKing1256]

Tasty.

[alex1231990]

Is it just me, or was the fishe moving?!

[yingsan11]

What the hell!! Why did the fish move?

[kira5S7]

cuz its not dead!

[vefco22]

It's dead, its just the nerves moving. Read the comments.

[bebekteruk]

It's not the nerves. the fish is trying to breath God dammit!

[newaza2boddha]

r u a biologist? LOL

[TaskiyahEmaani]

oh my God did that fish just move or am i seing things.????

[Limpfittz]

Yeah it moved, It's not alive tho, it's just reflexes

[kokoden6]

nooooo!

it moves!

[TaskiyahEmaani]

lool they didnt lie when they said VERY FRESH

[0100101101001011]

pure art

[kokokoara]

Fish's sweetness decreases by the oxidation.

If you try, you will learn it.

You will want to eat the fish that lives.

[plafkuiken]

give me dead fish not alive lol

[kokokoara]

Have you been fishing?

When the needle sticks in the mouth, you are painful.

You cannot move.

However, the fish tries to run away.

[Deathwingx112]

Fish have the most sensitive organs and nerves of all animals since they need it to navigate underwater. How can they not feel pain? They feel the most pain.

[1livrpul]

errrrr wrong. their senses may be more sensitive, but organs? and nerves? being more sensitive... cmon (and saying that fish, out of all animals, the most... lol) you are a silly person. and second of all, pain is a subjective experience. saying a particular animal feels more pain is just stupid. we, as humans, can distinguish pain because we are conscious of it. pain for animals is merely a reflex and learning tool. annnd finally, the fish already dead, the nerve endings are just still firing.

[FlipXkeeper]

i feel sorry for the fish. imagine being served alive and watching human beings eat ur cut up body and all around u. its prolly humiliating and scary for the fish.

[shin2605]

たしかに・・　魚からしたら悲惨だね^^；

[kyleain]

And animals eat each other and kill each other savagely while they are still alive. Stop being a silly thoughtless twit. Or would you like to go on a campaign to exterminate all animals to end the suffering?

So are animals selfish too?

[5ayack]

this is animal cruelty! human did this juz for the visual effect.i saw on the news abt this competition in hongkong or taiwan, they actualli wrap the head of the fish with a towel, then deep fry the body in hot oil. so when its on the plate, u could see the eyes and the mth still moving, probably struggling. of course, there are pple like me who were against this. well, its a gd thing that the dish is deemed as animal cruelty and was striped off the menu!

[evilmonk13]

Believe me, it tastes great.

[Slater6977]

fish don't feel pain!

[HealthyRick]

I have been having a hard time getting my pallet to enjoy Sushi and fish in general...So I get the omega-3's from pumpkin, flax, fish molasses, etc. I believe that Eating a live fish, etc, is a lot healthier than anything man-made, as long as the mercury content is in-check. In the words of Jack LaLanne :"If it's made by man, DON'T EAT IT!" Excluding supplements and a lot of other actually useful things >_>

[tchicorita]

sarcasm aside, they're eating the freshest fish possible!! (yes....i think it's very painfull for the animal)

but i think japanese do this because long time ago...sushi was eaten almost roten!(the ancient sushi). only in 1825 it started the way of sushi we eat nowadays... its like a revenge ...

but this is the oposite of the orietal mentality ,because they have a lot of respect for fauna and flora,and most of them dont like to harm animals...

[Aegistance]

it died so fast it didnt see it coming, if the fish is still twitching it died rather happy,. better to get shot fast in the head than get cut in the stomach and bleed to death right?

[ohm360]

what a pity fish T_T

[sonyblockbuster]

who is this song by? thought it was a lalo schifrin song, but not sure.

[FinancialConnection]

Michel Polnareff

[FinancialConnection]

One of the best sushi/sashimi I ever ate, you really feel the difference with "normal fresh" fish after that.

About the dying scene, I explained it quickly in the comment and we could talk about it during hours (traditions / cultural specialties / moral construction / life & pain [self]recognition / empathy...)

By the way, I systematically ban & erase insulting comments (there are enough words to write with courtesy, avoiding the usual "f#*k" & others...)

[whaleiscool]

even though i'm not a fan of eating things that are still twitching, i can still appreciate that in some cultures they may consider it a delicacy. i totally agree with you that some of the comments people make are not only offensive but more specifically racist and make them appear stupid.

[mInI3c33]

oh my geography...its a good thing i dont eat sushi man...ugh...

[ObsidianPhoenix06]

This would be like making hamburger out of a piece of a live cow and then giving you what's left of the live cow with your burger when you order from MacDonald's...bet the SPCA would have something to say about it THEN!

[ntt688]

I love all things Japanese, except this...

[pigcowoinkmoo]

evoliix - If it died instanly then no.

DHUHHH! >=[

[Fashnvictm]

omg...this is a horrible horrible practice.

[gomuninguen]

Its a fish u pusy, deal with it

[eltercohr]

Fish do feel pain, search in google: fish pain

[evoliix]

And if we kill it before eating? Won´t it feel any pain at the minute of its death? What stupid comment...

[druha10304]

one more post sorry study by Professor James D. Rose of the University of Wyoming found that fish cannot feel pain as they lack the appropriate neocortex of the brain

[druha10304]

fish dont have pain sensors

[drugopiu]

incredible!

[Verified1]

This is cruel.

[Bebe2k5]

I luv the bucket^^