Pufferfish in China bred poison-free

The reason for the recent proliferation of pufferfish restaurants in Beijing is that Chinese fish farmers have succeeded in breeding non-poisonous varieties, which allowed the Chinese government to lift the ban. Another restaurant chain, Tianzheng Puffer, served pufferfish back in 2003 in a restaurant in Dalian in China’s northeast, where early Chinese government trials of pufferfish dining were held, says its technical director, Wang Chengtao. Wang says that, while China allows diners to eat only two species of pufferfish, more than 20 species are popular in restaurants in Japan.

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