dancing squid

I Pose a Question

July 19, 2013Katie

Warning: If you are easily squeamish, please don’t read any further!

I consider myself an extreme foodie. I will try most anything…


My Mom-in-Law sent me this in an e-mail this week and I can’t seem to get the disturbing image out of my mind

So my question for all you extreme foodies is this…

Would you try this dish?

This dish is called “Odori-don” and means “dancing rice bowl”.

Apparently the soy sauce sodium activates the neurons in this already dead squid causing it to appear to “dance”.  The squid is then taken off the plate and prepared by the chef at the restaurant Ikkatei Tabiji in Hokkaido, and Japan’s northern island, was the first to offer it, and also try to patent the name. Other restaurants are copying it as it’s become such a fad.

So, I ask you again, would you be daring enough to try it?

8 Comments

  • Sheri | Really Most Sincerely

    July 19, 2013 at 2:17 pm

    Only if my life depended on it.
  • Debra

    July 21, 2013 at 9:29 am

    We have often commented that if we were ever on Amazing Race or Survivor that I would be the one NOT to eat the weird and disgusting stuff. So, the answer is "No way!" :)
    1. DishinandDishes

      July 22, 2013 at 9:44 am

      Debra - I agree - the bugs and stuff would get me! This might kill me :)
  • Marie at the Lazy W

    July 21, 2013 at 5:35 pm

    No. No ma'am. Not even with basil or alfredo sauce. No.
    1. DishinandDishes

      July 22, 2013 at 9:45 am

      Marie at the Lazy W - So I gather you'd eat just about anything else with those 2 ingredients? LOL
  • Dina

    August 6, 2013 at 2:34 pm

    No. No. Just no.
  • New user

    August 11, 2013 at 8:07 am

    I would! Squid and salt go together. Lest we forget our food was once a living creature.
  • Amanda Nunn

    September 21, 2013 at 8:14 pm

    Oh no I wouldn't. I think even if I had nothing else to eat I still wouldn't.

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