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I remember when I was small, I accompanied my mom to a wet market, and saw a frog butchered in front of my eyes (chopped into two horizontal cut), and that gave

I remember when I was small, I accompanied my mom to a wet market, and saw a frog butchered in front of my eyes (chopped into two horizontal cut), and that gave me chills till this day that I actually don't eat frog meat. I do other stuffs though and have no problem handling knife for meat work. On the other hand, wet market like Tokyo's Tsukiji is very fresh and clean. Actually, wet markets through Japan are usually really fresh and clean, and have no noticeable smell. I wonder how they do that. Traditional Chinese culture at it again. Seems like another tool for CCP to control its people, and "culture" is just an excuse. They do the same thing for traditional Chinese martial art vs MMA as well (see the whole Xu Xiaodong fiasco).

tmh79 7y ago
the issue isn't seafood (living or dead) its live mammals and birds. Tsujiki doesn't sell any mammals/birds and the vast majority of what is sold there is long dead, so its fine. The issue is when you have lots of bats/pigs/birds/etc in close proximity.
- christiansakai 7y ago
  Right, I think that makes sense.
K0SM0S 7y ago
I don't know about Japan specifically but in the Caribbeans we'd often ship shrimps and other seafood in carbonic ice ("dry ice" in layman terms, turns solid below −56.4 °C (−69.5 °F). It has the added benefit of leaving no residue. I noticed as a child that there's little to no smell when using this. Afaik (1990s), it's just more expensive (and possible frostbites without gloves iirc), so we don't use it when normal ice works, but I can see Japan using that for all wet markets (because sushi of all things).
- christiansakai 7y ago
  Yeah I think that makes sense. A lot of wet seafood market in South East Asia doesn't have that luxury so it is really just fresh catch from the sea.
juiyout 7y ago
Can't remember which reality show was it. But the concept was for a bunch of city people living in a small mountainous village without outside help. As I flipped though channels, there was an episode that caught my attention. On this episode, these city people were craving for pork. I believe they were seeded a pig ready to be butchered. Now their community rule was "If you help out in butchering the pig, you get to have a share." Essentially in this show, you need to kill every single animal yourselves if you want to eat it. Those city people were not good at butchering either. I recall the scene was pretty ugly. Quickly some people decided they don't want pork anymore after some dry heaving. For those who went through with butchering, they get to make pork chops and cure their own bacon just to add some delight to their arduous rural lives. I often wonder what I would do in that situation.

tmh79 7y ago

the issue isn't seafood (living or dead) its live mammals and birds. Tsujiki doesn't sell any mammals/birds and the vast majority of what is sold there is long dead, so its fine. The issue is when you have lots of bats/pigs/birds/etc in close proximity.

christiansakai 7y ago
Right, I think that makes sense.

K0SM0S 7y ago

I don't know about Japan specifically but in the Caribbeans we'd often ship shrimps and other seafood in carbonic ice ("dry ice" in layman terms, turns solid below −56.4 °C (−69.5 °F). It has the added benefit of leaving no residue. I noticed as a child that there's little to no smell when using this. Afaik (1990s), it's just more expensive (and possible frostbites without gloves iirc), so we don't use it when normal ice works, but I can see Japan using that for all wet markets (because sushi of all things).

christiansakai 7y ago
Yeah I think that makes sense. A lot of wet seafood market in South East Asia doesn't have that luxury so it is really just fresh catch from the sea.

juiyout 7y ago

Can't remember which reality show was it. But the concept was for a bunch of city people living in a small mountainous village without outside help. As I flipped though channels, there was an episode that caught my attention. On this episode, these city people were craving for pork. I believe they were seeded a pig ready to be butchered. Now their community rule was "If you help out in butchering the pig, you get to have a share." Essentially in this show, you need to kill every single animal yourselves if you want to eat it. Those city people were not good at butchering either. I recall the scene was pretty ugly. Quickly some people decided they don't want pork anymore after some dry heaving. For those who went through with butchering, they get to make pork chops and cure their own bacon just to add some delight to their arduous rural lives. I often wonder what I would do in that situation.