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You Could Argue That It's 50 Percent Humane
When it comes to animal cruelty, the Western world probably has the rest of the planet beat via the sheer scale of its industrial livestock concentration camps. But let’s not count Asia out completely; it still has plenty of creative approaches to making animals suffer for our gustatory pleasure.
Case in point: The Yin-Yang Fish. KNBC of Los Angeles has the story of a Taiwanese dish that features a deep-fried fish. Partially deep-fried, that is. The body is all crispy and ready to eat, but the head—shielded from the lethal heat of the oil—is still alive and ready to express its displeasure at being partially cooked and served for dinner. The slideshow and video that accompany the story will give you a better sense of what this entails if you’re legitimately curious.
While this is quite an accomplishment, it leaves a lot of room for follow-ups. The Yin-Yang Pig will be a show-stopper, but there must be really special banquets that demand another step up the ladder. Yin-Yang Cow, anybody?
Posted by | Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 11:47am | 8 comments
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I don't feel this preparation honors this fish for giving it's life to us for nourishment. I would choose not to eat it.
Heat Sushi in Chicago was doing that for a while. They might be closed now, though.
Nasty, unnecessary.
Yeah, just wrong. There are other ways in which the consumer can know the fish is the freshest!
I'm with Ciaobella. I'm an unapologetic carnivore, but this is just sadistic.
I've had live lobster sashimi. Poor guy was waving his antennae at me. Prepared by one of the chefs from one of the better Ventura Blvd sushi places, but not on-premises. No deep-frying involved, of course.
This is atrocious.
I have read about (not actually seen) at least one dish that sounds even crueler than this, wrong as it is. I belive it is called the "dish of the three screams" and involves live baby dormice (in one of those areas that eat mice) which are impaled on a fork (scream one) dipped in a boiling chili sauce (scream two) and filanny eaten while still squirming (scream three). There were also accounts (in the days when eating bear paw was sill legal if not moral) of bear cubs being placed alive in small cages with thier feet protruding out so that when the cages we lower onto hot coals the feet would cook before the bear died.