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The World’s Most Expensive Tuna

Alex — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:15:19 +0000

How much would you pay for a piece of really fresh sushi? A sushi restaurant has just bought what is the world's most expensive fish: $736,000 for a bluefin tuna caught off the coast of Japan.

The winning bidder, Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., which operates the Sushi-Zanmai restaurant chain, said he wanted to give Japan a boost after last year's devastating tsunami.
The fish was divided into 10,000 pieces and sold off at ordinary prices, The Daily Telegraph reported.

"Japan has been through a lot the last year due to the disaster," a beaming Kimura told AP Television News. "Japan needs to hang in there. So I tried hard myself and ended up buying the most expensive one."

Link | More at MSNBC's PhotoBlog (Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Star Wars + Disco + Canned Tuna = So WTF It’s Awesome!

Alex — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:25:31 +0000

What do you get when you cross Star Wars with disco and canned tuna? This ad for Hagoromo sea chicken tuna from Japan screams "crazy" in so many ways in just 30 seconds.

Too strange too miss. The Zeray Gazette has the YouTube video clip: Link | And if you like that, check out Star Wars Medley by Meco (1979). Now that’s music!

Eat Your Sushi Now, Tuna Will Be Wiped Out By 2012

Alex — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:34:23 +0000

Tunas at the Tsukiji Fish Market. Photo: Fisherman (Wikipedia)

Psst! Love your tuna sashimi? Well, eat up because they may not be around much longer. The World Wildlife Fund has a dire report saying that unless current fishing practices are changed, tunas will be wiped out by 2012:

The population can only be saved by a complete halt to fishing in May and June, when the fish swim to the Mediterranean to spawn, the WWF says. The call comes as the two month tuna fishing season begins.

‘Bluefin tuna is collapsing as we speak and yet the fishery will kick off for business as usual,’ said Sergi Tudela, of WWF. ‘It is absurd and inexcusable to open a fishing season when stocks of the target species are collapsing.’

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Eating a Tuna Eyeball

Alex — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:44:05 +0000

Jesse of Flee Alaksa likes to eat strange things. How strange? How about this: a tuna eyeball!

I was at the grocery store and I got the urge to eat something new. I looked around and I didn’t really see much until I found a food that could look back. It was only a hundred yen, which is less than a buck, so I figured I’d give it a whirl. It had a sticker on it that said that it should be cooked, but I didn’t really know how to cook it. I tried to find stuff online, but there aren’t a lot of English webpages devoted to eating fish eyes, so I just decided to boil it.

If you’re squeamish, this isn’t for you: Link – via J-Walk Blog

Previously on Neatorama: 10 Weird Gourmet Foods