S: Today, we're going to try something we've never tried before: Fugu (河豚), which you might know as pufferfish.
S: OOOOOOH!
S: OOAH!
S: Oh my god!
S: It is extremely dangerous if it is not cut correctly.
S: I can die in an INSTANT...
M: AAAAAAH
S: ....If they give me the wrong piece.
And we're gonna eat it in this place here, which... just looks like a random warehouse.
M: That is a BIG BOI.
S: You're gonna love it. Come. Let me show you what it's all about.
M, quickly: Warning! Fugu is very poisonous if not cut properly. Do not try it yourself, you will probably die.
S: While we are in Yamaguchi, we are visiting a friend, Yohei.
Y: Hi, I'm Yohei!
S: He brought us out to this amazing place called さかえふぐ(Saka-e fugu)
S: So, for our first time trying fugu, we're gonna try a LOT of fugu–
M: Sashimi and tempura and shabu-shabu and soup.
S: Let's show you what pufferfish is all about! And not die!
M: If this is our last video–
S: I had such a great life with you.
M: This was a good life.
S: Thank you so much. For being with me all these years M: I've enjoyed myself, all the food we've eaten...
M: We pulled through it... S: It's been great.
M: It's been magical.
M: Now let's start eating. S: Let's do it.
Y: What to drink?
M: I am DRINKING!
S: Okay. How do you eat?
Y: Put sashimi
Y: Next, get skin.
S: That's skin?
Y: Yes, skin.
Y: Leek.
Y: Roll. S: Roll.
Y: Spicy... Radish.
S and M: Ohhhh! Y: Dip this.
S: Good? Okay!
S: Take a little bit of fugu...
S: I've already messed it up.
[booing sfx]
S: Oh my gosh, so much skin... Wow.
S: Mmkay...
S: And then a little bit of leek, you wrap it up..
M: Radish...
S: Spicy radish...
S: In here...
S: Mmkay.
S: Are we ready to try? M: I'm way ahead of you.
S: Okay, here we go.
Both: Mmmmm!
M: Oh, it's good. So sweet...
S: Very sweet fish!
M: Mmmmmmm!
M: That's good! S: That is really...
S: That's a lot better than I thought it was going to be.
M: I've never tried it before, so it's like... it's almost like... A little bit of squid / Ika (Japanese for squid)
S: Yeah, it has like a squid taste. For sure. M: A sweet... The sweetness.
M: I need to go back for more. For science!
S: Fugu fact!
S: In Japan it's pronounced Fugu, but, in Yamaguchi, it's pronounced Fuku because fuku is another word for happy.
S: And if you eat it it makes you happy.
S: Or dead.
S: How long, if it's poison, how long until you die? Five minutes? Ten minutes?
Y: Very soon
S: Oh, soon?
M [voiceover]: Will this be the end for this dynamic duo? Tune in next week and find out if the fugu fugu... is a huge fug-ing mistake!
M: Mm, good.
S: Oh, good! I'm okay!
S: We didn't die.
M: ...Yet.
S: Yet? M: One more piece to go.
M: So, people talk about the fugu being poisonous; they're not talking about the whole fish,
they're talking about a chef who doesn't know how to cut it properly.
M: You have to cut around this poison part.
Because if it's incorrectly prepared, or someone leaves the liver in, or they nick the liver while they're cutting it and it leaks out,
that's what's gonna kill you so... [inhales sharply] yeah.
M [nasally]: Obviously, we're not gonna go to a place that's gonna kill us. Right, Yohei?
S: So this is fugu shirake?
Y: Shirako (白子).
S: Shirako. M: We had this in Tenzushi.
S: Remember what shirako is?
*upbeat music*
S: Here we have grilled fugu milt. This is the perfect season for it right now.
S: If you don't know what milt is, look it up.
Dan: Oh wait, it's, uh, milt.
M [voiceover]: Ah, yes, Dan remembers, because he ate with us at Tenzushi.
M: It's delicious, but so creamy and milky.
All: Mmmm!
M: And you don't expect it.
M: You bite into it and you're like [splash sfx]
M: And it just tastes like an egg yolk.
M: I guess it is technically an egg yolk.
S: [clears throat] That's the third time in one week–
M: Third time in one week we've eaten sperm.
S: –that I had hot fish sperm.
M: Yep.
M: We're on a roll here.
S: I've never had this in a restaurant before.
In our room, we have our own private fridge,
and in our private fridge,
we have tons of alcohol. We have sake, we have beer, and we have orange juice.
S, whispering: I've never seen anything like this before.
You just...
grab your own, and then you just gotta pay for it later.
But still, super cool.
All: Kanpai! (Cheers!)
S: FUGU FACT!
All of these have fugu in them! And you might die!
Fugu fact! That wasn't a fact at all.
S: Apart from eating it as sashimi, you could also have fugu deep-fried.
*crunch*
Tastes like chicken!
Delicious, delicious chicken.
This is really well done!
Deep fried...
WOW!
I was just joking at first, mmmm!
Y: Sugoi!
S: Mmm! Sugoi (amazing)!
S: There's so many facts we were supposed to share with you,
but it's just so delicious!
You'd think that for a food like this, people eat it just for the novelty,
but no, they eat it, they risk the danger, because it's SO GOOD!
It's really, really yummy!
This, is deep-fried fugu, and it tastes like everything KFC wishes it could be.
This is,
some of the yummiest batter.
Such moist fish.
Doesn't taste like poison or imminent death.
It's just wonderful, wonderful fish.
[percussive music, roaring sfx]
S&M(lol): [roaring noises]
M: Fugus are quite smart.
They're like, screw you, I'm covered in spikes, I puff up, I'm disgusting.
I'M COVERED IN POISON!
And we're like, we should eat that.
S: FWSHH! Fugu fact!
Did you know that the poison of fugu is 100 times more toxic than cyanide?
And it's also 100 times more delicious!
Oooooooh!
M: Famous last words!
S: FUGU FACT
M: Am I gonna like put really heavy editing on this? Like,
THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMALS IN THE WORLD!
*cute laughing*
[v/o] I'ma kill you!
S: Mom, please don't give me an angry phone call afterwards. I love you, Mom, but I have to take these risks.
For my job and for my career.
This is what your son is destined to do.
M: I need you to let me know in the comments section below if you know where this is from,
M: and then we can become total best friends.
(absolutely no clue what they're saying)
M: a FUGU FACT!
M: Did you know that they actually breed fugus, and it doesn't have any poison in it at all?
And that's because the poisonous part actually comes from what they eat in the ocean.
So, you can have poison-free fugu, but... what's the fun in that?
M: Mmmmm.
[whispers] Danger.
M: Fugu fact...
We had soooo much fugu.
Both: [laughs]
S: Too much fugu!
M: [strained] Still alive...
M: [singing] I'm still alive.
M: For some reason in my head, because people talk about fugu as being such a scary, poisonous creature,
I expected to be really like... almost like bonito or katsuobushi. Like, I thought it would be a very distinctive strong flavor.
But instead, it's a very delicate fish.
Which I suppose makes sense, because it has a... spiky exterior trying to keep people away–
S: But it's really soft on the inside.
M: –but so soft and gentle on the inside.
M: The fugu is a misunderstood creature.
S: I'm gonna be honest; before coming here, I was actually a little bit nervous.
Because, if this is cut the wrong way, you can die. And people HAVE died before.
I know in our videos, we kind of encourage you to try things that you haven't tried before. Things that might be scary.
We've kinda taken that to a similar extent here, and we put ourselves not in our comfort zones
to try something that we know very little about, and that's quite scary; but we had a great time! And a great experience!
And I'm gonna be able to tell people afterwards that I had pufferfish and I loved it.
And I recommend that you do the same. Come down to Yamaguchi, and have some delicious fugu.
[music]
S: [laughing]
M: Will that work?