I Tried Japan's Most Dangerous Food | Poisonous Blowfish (Fugu)

Blowfish (Fugu) isn't a delicacy to be taken lightly, given that the poison within the fish can cause paralysis. Ryotaro and I travelled to Yamaguchi - Japan's home of Fugu - to see the dish being prepared and to taste it for the first time.

Thanks to Yamaguchi Prefecture for supporting this project and helping with on location film permissions!

*WHERE WE VISITED*

Tsunoshima Bridge

Motonosumi Shrine

Akiyoshido Cave

Rooftile Soba Noodle (Kawara Soba)
In the video I said the dish is topped with pork, but it’s actually beef!

Karato Market
► Yanagawa Seafood is in the middle of the market (Codeword: Ryotaro)

Blowfish (Fugu) cooking experience for 3,980 yen. (Min.2 persons)

**FOLLOW THE ADVENTURE**
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**EQUIPMENT I USE**

#japanesefood

[AbroadinJapan]

For those of you worried that Ryotaro had stopped in his mischievous attempts to kill me off, let this video offer you some reassurances. To celebrate Ryotaro’s three year anniversary since his Abroad in Japan debut, it seemed fitting to release this video this week!
And for everyone else who’s wondering why this isn’t a Journey Across Japan episode - Ryotaro flew down to visit me halfway through my cycle near Yamaguchi so we could film this episode, and as the cycle route went nowhere near the places we wanted to explore we grabbed a car for the day. Journey Across Japan episodes are back later this week!

[BeerdyBruceLeeCentral]

Tom Cruise got that japanese accent spot on. What a great actor.

[BoltCRNA]

Your channel has become like a travel channel show with cable television level of production.

[ondrejresl]

*Things I've learned from Chris/Ryotaro videos*:

1. Wealth is measured in chairs.
2. Quality of life depends on successful coin tosses.
3. It's rare to feel a cloud.

[liuos]

I’m surprised this isn’t a tv show, so funny, educational, travelling around an amazing country and the production quality is outstanding

[Kataang]

Chris so savage. “Millions of years old. That’s older than Ryotoro!” “Here’s Ryotoro sitting with all his friends”-no on there

And my favorite “Fugu is known to blow up like a cheap party balloon”

[pointlessproductions]

At last. My life goal has been made clear. To go to this fish store and say ‘Ryotaro’ to that lady

[sharlainjapan]

That Jeremy Clarkson impression was terrifyingly good😂How have you memorised the way he moves his hands haha

[tech]

My favorite part about Chris' channel is the music. The production music is there without being obnoxious or overwhelming like a lot of channels. It makes the videos really easy to watch.

[jpdst]

On tonight's episode...
Jeremy flips a coin into a box.
James opens a roof.
and special guest Tom Cruise prepares Fugu.

[shiraxvii]

Some say that he knows a friend's mum in each prefecture of Japan, and he has the best fake British accent... In the world. All we know is, he's called Ryotaro!

[GAIJINfromTOKYO]

In my opinion, Abroad in Japan is like the most informative channel about traveling in Japan there is on youtube. Thanks to you Chris my list of what to do in Japan is getting more and more exciting and never ends!!

[Cheynayful]

I actually took care of a patient with fugu poisoning when I was a med student at UCLA. He'd gotten a "to go" order of fugu sashimi before leaving Tokyo and consumed it on the flight over to LA. By the time the plane landed, he couldn't move and could barely breathe. We had no clue what was going on--he got a breathing tube put in and couldn't tell us he'd eaten fugu. So we did a huge workup to figure out he why he was paralyzed and not breathing, but everything like CAT scans, MRI scans, labs and spinal taps were normal. Eventually, we got the info about the sashimi consumption and just had to keep him on the ventilator until it wore off. Glad you two had a better experience with it than my patient!

[diesel]

Very good Jeremy impression. Not so much the sound, but the overall feel was dead on. Awesome !!!

[sinkingship]

I like how the Clarkson impression immediately slid into an unintentional Hammond impression once the roof came down haha.

[キラキラくりくり頭]

EVERYONE'S understanding of fugu comes from the Simpsons. Literally last week, I was talking to a mate, I mentioned fugu, he didn't know it - I said "the fish Homer ate" and he knew what I was talking about.

[uh]

ryotaro sounds more and more like chris every day

he will take over the abroadinjapan channel at some point

[pogothem]

Ryotaro is perfect. You guys match up so well. His English is good for his humor to be Hilarious. 9/10 episode

[randomizer]

What does the fox say...







*_Build A Shrine Here_*

[wpdotimas]

Documentary with a strong touch on personal relationships on the presenters are really good to watch and quite rare and if there is, this channel really nailed it.