I recently saw a food documentary on TV where the lucky host when to
someplace in Kyushuu (spelling) Japan, and had an exquisite full blown
Fugu dinner.

The program started with catching the fish itself. The fugu was caught
in the wild, with a fishing line 100 meters long, with a hook attached
at every meter. It wasn't until the 2nd attempt did they actually
succeed in catching one. It was apparently a high end fugu, black
colored skin with a whiteish belly.

The hosts then went to an inn type of place and had a multi course meal
with fugu. There was of course the raw body sashimi (along with the
skin), then another dish that was more like a salad (fugu skin that
tasted like gelatin), fugu fish fin grilled, then dipped in sake
(torched to have the flavor sink in), and finally something that looked
like fugu shirako, grilled/skewered. Apparently this small amount of
the "milt" (two pieces), already runs US$40.

So I was wondering, how much does a fugu dinner cost in the US (I
assume with licensed chefs in the East Coast/NY area) and do they serve
something similar (multi course meal).

Last time I had fugu it was not nearly that elaborate, but rather
disapointing in terms of taste...
But it cost us about $50 to share between 3 people...we did it as a
start to a meal at Morrimoto in Philly...
>From what I know there are only about 13 places in the US that serve
Fugu... Kaz in DC does an ok job.
Although we go to Hatsuhana a lot, I've never ordered it there, I can
only imagine it would be absloutly perfectly served there.

> wrote in message
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> I recently saw a food documentary on TV where the lucky host when to
> someplace in Kyushuu (spelling) Japan, and had an exquisite full blown
> Fugu dinner.
>
> The program started with catching the fish itself. The fugu was caught
> in the wild, with a fishing line 100 meters long, with a hook attached
> at every meter. It wasn't until the 2nd attempt did they actually
> succeed in catching one. It was apparently a high end fugu, black
> colored skin with a whiteish belly.
>
> The hosts then went to an inn type of place and had a multi course meal
> with fugu. There was of course the raw body sashimi (along with the
> skin), then another dish that was more like a salad (fugu skin that
> tasted like gelatin), fugu fish fin grilled, then dipped in sake
> (torched to have the flavor sink in), and finally something that looked
> like fugu shirako, grilled/skewered. Apparently this small amount of
> the "milt" (two pieces), already runs US$40.
>
> So I was wondering, how much does a fugu dinner cost in the US (I
> assume with licensed chefs in the East Coast/NY area) and do they serve
> something similar (multi course meal).
>

I was under the impression that it would cost a whole lot more...$50 to
share between 3 people....was it Japanese fugu or from somewhere else?

To anyone else: what is the Japanese name of the sake with grilled fugu
fin?

> wrote in message
oups.com...
> I was under the impression that it would cost a whole lot more...$50 to
> share between 3 people....was it Japanese fugu or from somewhere else?
>
> To anyone else: what is the Japanese name of the sake with grilled fugu
> fin?
>

Hirezake...from Hire (fin) & sake