Live sushi sashimi - VERY fresh fish

This was at a restaurant in Tokyo that a bunch of us ate at. The fish was sooo fresh that it was still moving! It did taste good.

The meat was cut up and served with the fish, the fish was merely decoration.

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Travel & Events

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• Sushi
• tokyo
• japan
• fresh
• raw
• moving
• fish

[RatRaceAce]

You can argue about whether the fish is really alive. But listen to the people on the video. They really BELIEVE the fish is alive while they are tearing and eating it up very very slowly-- and they LOVE that idea. Look at them prodding at it and shouting with pleasure each time it shows movement. They take such immense pleasure from the pain of others. If you were blindfolded, could you tell the difference in taste between a live fish and a dead fish? Do you really need to inflict such pain?

[mak0t0san]

I agree with what you're saying, but this was the first time coming to this restaurant and we had no idea how it'd be served. The fact is, there's not much we could have done to control how the chef prepares the fish. Since that's the way it was served, you can't really do much other than to be in awe of how bizarre having a moving fish is and laugh about it.

I don't think this is any different than throwing a live lobster in a pot of boiling water, or worse, the way we slaughter cows and pigs.

[babeeguh842003]

gross, how could you possibly enjoy your meal with a living creature dying at your dinner/lunch table? to top it off, poking fun at it while it's painfully dying? that's just plain cruel and disgusting. i don't think i'd be able eat anything at that table.

[mak0t0san]

I understand how you feel. The meat was already cut from the fish into small cubes. The fish was served as decoration, so that you can see exactly how fresh it is. At this point, the fish is no longer alive, but still has the reflex nerves that causes it to move like that.

Would it be much different if the fish were left dying in another room? I will say that it was the freshest fish I've ever had and was delicious.

[mak0t0san]

Also, I wanted to point out that this is not very common in Japan. You'll hear how shocked and surprised the people are at the table. If you watch the other related videos, you'll hear how surprised other people are.

[missRbeckett]

Why would you laugh at that?

[mak0t0san]

The fish is actually dead, it's just the reflex nerves reacting.

Fact of the matter is, in Japan, people are going to eat fish, and lots of it, that's inevitable. In order to eat it, along with any animal, it must be killed. This fish was simply killed right before it was going to be served.

[killinthetruth]

lol get over it hippie

[Mirmillos]

I am a spear-fisher and my first concern after spearing a fish is to kill it as soon as possible so that it don't suffer... this is cruel and disrespectful to nature....

[RatRaceAce]

@Dontgivafuck1000: Well, I sure hope so, man. But I just don't get why people are so OBSESSED with taste. A lot of what we call taste is ACQUIRED; it is not inherent in us. We condition ourselves to believe that something is tasty while something else is not tasty. Conditioning is why a Chinese person may not like Egyptian food and vice versa. People condition themselves to believe that dogs must be beaten to death in order to be tasty, monkeys must be eaten alive, etc.

[Dontgivafuck1000]

@RatRaceAce Fish dont feel pain

[jaseb000]

Sick fucks

[toradrow777]

That ain't right, that just ain't right at all. That is just plain wrong! If you're gonna eat something, at least have the decency to put it out of its misery first.

[SheerPandemonium]

@TheMonkeyTookMyHat why would you waste your time writing that in a comment

[TheMonkeyTookMyHat]

What defines the point of death? Are you truly dead when your body still moves? If your nervous system is still functioning are you still alive? There is no way we can ever say for sure. This is very similar to the debate about abortion. When does life begin and end? When is it sadistic murder or not? We humans walk a very fine line in our efforts to be ethical.

[mcezar]

Bastards

[spider9010spider]

haha

self righteous pricks

racist bastards

you idiots all make me laugh

"hey my culture is better than your's so i'm gonna rip on you on the internet" pricks

i love it

[RatRaceAce]

It's funny how we fondly imagine that the more we torture animals alive, the better their meat is going to taste. At the same time, we laugh at those who believed that the sun went round the earth. At least those people had better reasons for their wrong belief.

Well, the world is full of such injustices, and most of us are unfortunately unable to do much about them. At least we can start off by acknowledging these things rather than pretend they never happened. That is a good starting point.