Pufferfish can be served for human consumption as a delicacy called fugu. It is especially popular in Japan, but you may also see it available in other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore, ...

Delicately sliced and arranged like a crane for this sashimi platter, fugu is pretty as a picture. For some diners, the risk and the myth around fugu-eating is precisely its charm. Photos Provided to ...

Tetrodotoxin is a powerful nerve toxin 100 times more poisonous than cyanide. When consumed it can shut down organs in the human body, leading to a zombie-like state of paralysis and eventual death by ...

An elderly couple from Malaysia have died after consuming poisonous pufferfish, leading their family to call for stricter regulations on the dish. The couple, Ng Chuan Sing and Lim Siew Guan, had ...

The couple’s daughter, Ng Ai Lee, said her father purchased the puffer fish — a delicacy known to contain extremely potent poisons — from a local fish shop on March 25. “My parents have been buying ...

GRAB your chopsticks. The first Japanese Restaurant Week is on through Saturday, with restaurants all over the city offering special and discounted meals. Restaurant Nippon has tora-fugu (Japanese ...

The discovery of the toxic fish species "Winged Croaker" in domestic waters has prompted authorities to urge extreme caution regarding consumption and contact. On September 3, the Ministry of Food and ...

If you’ve never heard about the dangers of eating pufferfish, they’re more than just urban legend. Although routinely served at restaurants across Japan, their poison is so potent that chefs have to ...

The poisonous puffer fish, which inflates itself into a small balloon when caught, lives in most of the world’s oceans. But only in Japan, where it is called fugu, has it become a national tradition.

When Edward Bachner was arrested in July for buying enough poison to kill about 100 people, he inadvertently implicated sushi chefs as potential bioterrorists. The 35-year-old Chicagoan ordered 98 ...