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10 Amazing Alive Foods In The World
Eating live food has long been considered a delicacy. There are many delicacies with the raw flesh of animals as the key ingredients.
10 Amazing Alive Foods In The World
Eating live food has long been considered a delicacy. There are many delicacies with the raw flesh of animals as the key ingredients.
In this article, let us take a look at the appetizing world of some of the most amazing live foods, and see how many you would like to try.
1. Ikizukuri
10 Amazing Alive Foods In The World
Ikizukuri also known as ikezukuri is the preparation of sashimi (raw fish) from live seafood. In this Japanese culinary technique, the most popular sea animal used is fish, but octopus, shrimp, and lobster may also be used. The practice is controversial owing to concerns about the animal’s suffering, as it is still alive when served.
There are different styles in which a chef may serve the dish but the most common way is to serve it on a plate with the filleted meat assembled on top of the body.
Ikizukiri fish may be prepared with only three knife cuts by the chef. They are usually presented with the head still whole so that customers are able to see the continuing gill movements.
2. Sannakji
10 Amazing Alive Foods In The World
San-nakji is a variety of hoes made with long arm octopus, a small octopus species called nakji in Korean, and is sometimes translated into “baby octopus” due to its relatively small size compared to the giant octopus. The octopuses are most commonly killed before being cut into small pieces and served, with the nerve activity in the octopus’ tentacles making the pieces move posthumously on the plate while serving.
The octopus’ highly complex nervous system, with two-thirds of its neurons localized in the nerve cords of its arms, lets the octopus show a variety of reflex actions that persist even when they have no input from the brain. Less commonly, a live octopus is eaten whole. The dish is sprinkled with sesame oil and toasted sesame seeds.
3. Frog Sashimi
Amazing Alive Foods In The World
For this Japanese dish, a living frog is cut open on an iced platter. The sashimi bits are sliced out, and the rest is simmered for soup. Imagine the skinned leg pieces of the freshly disemboweled frog still dancing when salt is sprinkled. While most of the pieces are raw but dead, the alive part is the heart of the frog, still thumping on the plate when it is served. The whole from the head is also plated.
4. Sea Urchins and Oysters
Alive Foods In The World
These don’t move, but they’re alive. While people are well aware that sea urchins are alive, many who eat oysters don’t even realize they have gulped down something living.
In Italy, catching sea urchins or Ricci di Mare and eating them immediately is popular, and oysters are world-famous. They are shucked, and the innards are eaten. The practice ensures the freshness of the creatures.
5. Odori Ebi
10 Amazing Alive Foods In The World
Odori ebi is a sushi delicacy of Japan and a form of sashimi. The sushi contains baby shrimp that are still alive and able to move their legs and antennae while being eaten. The meal is prepared quickly to keep the shrimp alive, and when it is eaten the shrimp are usually dunked into sake so as to intoxicate the shrimp, then into a special dipping sauce, and finally quickly chewed to kill it.
The shrimp can be served either whole or shelled with the head removed; the head and shell are sometimes quickly deep-fried and served on the side.
6. Drunken Shrimp
10 Amazing Alive Foods In The World
Drunken shrimp is a Chinese delicacy where freshwater clawed shrimp are doused in ethanol. It’s often served with a lid to prevent the shrimp from jumping out of the glass and onto the diner’s lap.
7. Fruit Bat Soup
fruit bat soup
Fruit bats are used in a Palauan soup that includes coconut milk, spices, and ginger. Hot pot made with whole bat is available in some restaurants in southern China. Bat stew is a stew prepared from various types of bats.
8. Casu Marzu
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Casu marzu in Sardinian is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live insect larvae (maggots).
A variation of this cheese exists also in Corsica (France), where it is called “casgiu merzu”, and is specially produced in some Southern Corsican villages like Sartene
9. Ying Yang Yu
Amazing Alive Foods
Ying Yang Yu fish is a deep-fried whole fish served in China. The fish head is wrapped in a wet cloth to keep it breathing while the body is cooked. Some Chinese chefs cook the dish this way in order to prove its freshness to the customer.
10. Noma Salad
10 Amazing Foods In The World
Denmark’s Noma, one of the 50 best restaurants in the world, seems to be heavily inspired by the practice of eating ants and has taken it to a whole new level, with its $300 ant salad. The ants are frozen so they move slower, and they replace croutons to add a crunchy texture to the salad. The ants crawling across the lettuce leaves of the salad supposedly taste like lemongrass and cinnamon.
10 Amazing Alive Foods In The World
1. Ikizukuri
2. Sannakji
3. Frog Sashimi
4. Sea Urchins and Oysters
5. Odori Ebi
6. Drunken Shrimp
7. Fruit Bat Soup
8. Casu Marzu
9. Ying Yang Yu
10. Noma Salad
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