Playing With My Food
How many times have your mom told you not to play with your food? Well, she may change her mind if she saw what I had for dinner. Either that or she’ll faint. Some will no doubt use the following video as proof that I am the root of all evil. Not only do I slay baby pandas, but I also torment poor helpless lobsters by showing them what their insides looks like.
The lobster is served raw. Well, the tail is served raw. They separate the lobster between the head and tail, cut up the tail meat and serve it to you while the lobster is still alive (no doubt wondering where its tail is). This proves to the dinners that the lobster is fresh.
After you consume the raw tail (which is really good), they take the lobster away and fry it so you can go after the claw meat.
After finishing that, they take it away one more time and use its skeleton as the flavor based for a soup.
Nothing goes to waste! 
The Last Thing The Lobster Saw
Thanks to Ilker for the Photochop.
- Posted in Fine Dining, Videos
- 123 comments what's your take?
So…much…evil…
Reply to this commentPoor thingy..
Reply to this commentIt’s still alive?!?!
Reply to this commentYes it was still alive. That’s the best way to enjoy lobsters.
Reply to this commentmy god! Never eated a “live” lobster, allways boiled.
Reply to this commentYou wouldn’t “enjoy” it, if this was the last thing you saw!
Reply to this commentLobster sashimi, when prepared properly, is amazing. It’s especially good if the lobster is still somewhat alive like in this video. Sooo fresh…
Reply to this comment‘Live’ animals are the freshest, one may say. *evil grins.
Reply to this commentLobster sashimi is absolutely delectable. It can also be quite expensive.
Reply to this commentThat looks so sad, must’ve been tasty though. I’ve never had lobster.
Reply to this commentDoesn’t look dead to me..
Reply to this commentMore like “dying”
Reply to this commentMan I would have got scared as i am not used to live food
Reply to this commentWell, at least you know the food was fresh…
Reply to this commentlol a little too fresh
Reply to this commentIn asian countries, most seafood animals are brought to the customers for ‘inspection’ to ensure that they are fresh, lively and kicking before they consume them. That was the way to show that they were ‘fresh’.
Reply to this commentNot just Asian countries. Here in Vancouver, if you go to a Chinese restaurant and order live king crab, crab, lobster, etc., they’ll typically bring it to you fresh from the tank for inspection.
Reply to this commentThe color of the meat should show how fresh it is,the pinker the better.
Reply to this commentWOAA! Its moving
Reply to this commentWell, I they do boil lobsters before serving you. I guess we just got to see it die this time.
Reply to this commentIt’s like the CSI Guys doing autopsy
Reply to this commentThe lobster is served raw. Well, tail is served raw. They separate the lobster between the head and tail, cut up the tail meat and serve it to you while the lobster is still alive (no doubt wondering where his tail is). This proves to the dinners that the lobster is fresh.
After you consume the raw tail (which is really good), they take the lobster away and fry him so you can go after the claw meat.
After finishing that, they take it away one more time and use its skeleton as the flavor based for a soup.
Nothing goes to waste!
Reply to this commentPoor lobster
It’s like one time that i saw killing a turkey. They cut his head, and the turkey run for a few meters without the head. Very very creapy! 
Reply to this commentHeadless turkey?!
Try this: Mike the headless chicken!
Reply to this commentThe only difference is that you watch it die. If you order any kind of animal for dinner, it *was* alive at some point.
Reply to this commentNothing goes to waste??
The only thing you didn’t eat was the shell!
Reply to this commentthey prolly put that in there somewhere too
Reply to this commentI think John mentioned that they use the shell for soup. It adds flavour. (yes, with a U)
Reply to this commentTrue, like a ham bone, you use the bone/skeleton which has saturated flavor within it.
Reply to this commentI’ve eaten a fish like that at a Chinese restaurant. When they brought it out, it was cooked but still “breathing”. Needless to say, that freaked me out. It was very tasty though.
Reply to this commentA lot of asian cultures love to serve fish and such live on the plate. It has to be moving. I’ve experienced those many times and I love it.
Reply to this commentYou are a sick man John Chow.
Hehe.
Reply to this commentlol lol lol, must agree with that jack
Reply to this commentYes
Reply to this commentIs the head alive??? Geeee! This one is really freaky!!
Reply to this commentI couldn’t sleep at night because John was eating a LIVE lobster.. for REAL!!
Reply to this commentThen you seriously don’t want me to tell you the other stories of how John is an evil, evil man.
Reply to this commentAs a member of the Clan of Evil, I’d like to hear some stories!
Oh yeah,
Reply to this commentThat is just crazy.
Reply to this commentI don’t mind people eating lobster, but it has to be done with respect to the animal. You fail in this completely.
Reply to this commentgood bye jon
How do you respect a lobster? Do you say sorry before putting it the boiling pot of water? I doubt the lobster care whether you respect it or not.
Reply to this commentRight!
Do you think the cow that has become your hamburger, was killed respectfully in the slaughter house?!?!
Reply to this commentYou respect any food by not messing about with it too much. In this case that doesn’t apply. Not wasting food is also respect, and you didn’t waste any of this.
Reply to this commentI do, however, find this deeply unappealing.
That’s just ridiculous. Animals are here for our consumption. That and the lobster is most likely dead but is still twitching since it was freshly prepared.
Delicious, delicious animals…
Reply to this commentAgreed. The lobster is already dead, fundamentally.
Reply to this commentRESPECT THE LOBSTER
Reply to this commentMay I point out that Lobsters don’t have feelings because their nervous system is not as developed?
Any animal that is primitive enough to survive while having its flesh hacked out is not advanced enough to feel disrespected, or feel pain or agony. They simply consist of reflexes through hormones and signals. There’s nothing to respect.
Oh, all the things people to do feel self-righteous.. animal rights, SPCA.. gahhh. There are people starving out there, damn it.
Reply to this commentlol…cry more, noob.
Reply to this commentDude you’re an idiot. It’s a lobster. How is it any less respectful if you eat it live??? You must be one of those uppity-dippity rich white people who try to feel self-righteous by donating money to the SPCA eh? Get your head out of your ass.
Reply to this commentI wonder if I could attach an image in the comments.. lets try!
WHAT THE LOBSTER SAW MOMENTS BEFORE ITS DEATH:
Reply to this commentHmm… I guess not! Well, see the photo here taken from a spy cam before John ate the lobster
:!: 
Reply to this commentEww.. It had to see its ‘tormentor’ before its last few moments. It would have to be eaten by another tormentor other than John, anyway.
Reply to this commentI’ve had something similar before: lobster sashimi. Nothing cooked whatsoever, I just got a lobster than had been cut up. The feelers and eyes were still moving when it got to the table.
Reply to this commentI had ate ‘live’ frogs before. They were still squeaming when we put them in the pot. Hate to be disgusting to say this, anyone tried dipping half of the bodies of live prawns into hot water and seeing only half the colour change for them? Eww..
Reply to this commentNow that seems a little excessive!
Reply to this commentFresh prawn sashimi is much the same. The prawns are cleaned and shelled but still…moving a bit. They’re delicious and incredibly fresh tasting like that.
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Reply to this commentI was so worried the OhMiBod was goign to make an appearance in this post “Playing with My Food”. Thank God it didn’t.
Reply to this commentHaha.. you meant to say that the lobsters would have been the ones being ‘vibrated’ or moving? I wouldn’t have wanted to see that, either.
Reply to this commentThat is absolutely disgusting, you really do make me sick, John. Eat at a Burger King just once, damn.
As far as your blog earnings go, I applaud you, this much can’t be denied, your hustle is immense. It’s amazing that you make as much as you make considering you talk about how much make publicly.
I knew ReviewMe was the gonna be number one, I told my wife that no more than a quarter of the income was from Adsense, you are catering to webmasters and webmaster wannabes, they are ad blind.
Just don’t expect me to hop on your sack like the rest of the rest of your users.
Reply to this comment“you really do make me sick, John. Eat at a Burger King just once”
I’ll bet the stuff John ate tonight is far less likely to kill/poison him than Burger King would…
Reply to this comment>I’ll bet the stuff John ate tonight is far
>less likely to kill/poison him than Burger
>King would…
Agree. All the carbs and fats will make a layer of glue like substance covering the inner wall of the intestine, preventing the absorption of nutrient, and putting more toxin into the body. Adding the high sugar content drink and we get a perfect ingredient for
big O word.
Reply to this commentThe comment really wasn’t meant in the literal sense. Posh food, I like that, well put. I’ll stick with my meat and potato meals.
Reply to this commentEww.. It isn’t that good to have fastfood too often. Too much of fastfood makes me sick. Go for family meals, such as seafood.
Reply to this commentVery true! The artificial garbage and preservatives in fast food is way worse then fresh seafood!
Reply to this commentYea, that is why I would usually opt to pay abit more to have ‘healthier’ alternatives. Or better still, stay home and enjoy home-cooked food.
Reply to this commentI’ve never eaten lobster and I’m not sure I ever will.. Not really into the posh food really
Reply to this commentYum! John, still can’t seem to click play for your embedded YouTube vids from Firefox. No problems in IE. Any others experiencing the same?
Reply to this commentSorry to tell you this, but no. There must be an issue with your install
Reply to this commentIt’s not an install issue it’s a pre-2.0 issue. Upgrade you Firefox and you’ll be all good.
Reply to this commentI have the latest Firefox and it’s a no go. I have to watch it in IE.
Reply to this commentAre you sure it’s the latest in the 2.0 thread. They’re still providing updates for earlier 1.x versions so you will have the latest version in that thread. You can’t go to 2.x via an auto update, you have to go download again.
Reply to this commentOr, while in Firefox, click Help->Check for updates.
Reply to this commentBtw, what Japanese restaurant is this?
Reply to this commentYeah - deets please, we need to know where to go!
Reply to this commentJohn tells me that this was in Shanghai.
Reply to this commentShanghai?!
I would’ve guess somewhere in Vancouver…
Reply to this commentyikes, what else can I say!
Reply to this commentWell wow, that’s certainly new for me. I’m a dedicated carnivore and all but man… That certainly takes it to a whole new level.
On the bright side, I don’t eat shellfish so I won’t ever have to personally wrestle with the weirdness of this dish.
Reply to this commentI love the attacking fork picture!
Reply to this commentMe too! Bring on the Next one, please! err.. if there is any left.
Reply to this commenthttp://static.flickr.com/63/171460457_a6df7357d4_b.jpg
That’s entirely shell-less by the way.
Reply to this commentThat’s pretty amazing.
Reply to this commentwow live huh, never done that before
Reply to this commentEww… That looks so gross.
Reply to this commentEating an animal alive surely loses my appetite.
The video doesn’t seem to work for me..I can’t click the play button. Sidenote, I don’t like seafood!
Reply to this commentI had the same problem in Firefox! It worked fine when I switched to internet explorer though.
Reply to this commentCan you guys watch YouTube videos on YouTube’s site?
Reply to this commentI dont think i could ever eat a live animal. I personally think that animals should be killed humanely and as quick as possible. Usually with a lobster that means a very sharp point of a knife directly into the head.
Cutting the lobster in half and have it squirm about at your table is a little sick if you ask me.
Reply to this commentWell why ever not? We have steamboat meals sometimes and we do throw live seafood into the boiling pots. Sounds sick? Not really.
Reply to this commentLobsters probably actually don’t feel pain and the best way to cook them is to throw them live into a pot of boiling water.
You people are giving these creatures feelings and personalities…like we’re eating something with human traits but the reality is, these are animals and they are here for us to eat. Whether or not we do so while they’re still alive seriously doesn’t matter.
Reply to this commentThis is the evilest thing I’ve seen all day.
Reply to this commentWe are in a current world where humans ‘eat’ humans, anyway. *grins, anyway it is seafood. Not like it is some other ‘live’ animals.
Reply to this commentI’ll pass on that one! I have one main rule when it comes to food: If it’s moving, I don’t eat it. -Except for Jello, of course.
Reply to this commentWell, what if it once moved? Now it moves, next it doesn’t. That’s Live animals for you.
Reply to this commentUmm . . does this qualify as cruel and unusal punishment? . . . actually, check that . . now I’m craving some live lobster and am on a quest to find it in SoCal!
Reply to this commentWow that is crazy cool! Live lobster… one day you guys will have to invite me out so I can try all these cool things. I feel so deprived!
Reply to this commentI’ve had a fish served to me live once. They cut the head/tail, and gut it.
THe mid-section, where all the flesh is, is hacked and cut into nice thin strips of sashimi.
The fish head is still alive, and the gill will flap, and its eyes will move.
It’s so fresh and good.
Reply to this commentWow…this “cruel” image and not a negative comment until Bert…I LOVE IT!
And where do you find this? I wanna try it someday!
Reply to this commentHow would one like to be ‘boiled’ alive? If the lobster had a voice, it would have probably screamed the entire place down! Besides the point, it sure looks yummy!
Reply to this commentYeah I heard if you boil a lobster live, then it starts screaming!
Reply to this commentActually, I think that’s myth…
Reply to this commentI did not notice their vocal chords in the first place.
Who would be left at the table if it did?
Reply to this commentAlternatively, if you put it water that is a temperature that is “comfortable” for the lobster and slowly increase the temperature to boiling, the lobster will not struggle at all. It’s the sudden change in temperature that puts it on alert.
Reply to this commentWhere is this place at?
Reply to this commentShanghai
Reply to this commentThe picture of you holding the fork looks like you are doing an impression of Wolverine!
Reply to this commentEwww … no offense John, but I really don’t think I could eat an animal while watching it die.
I guess I’m just not evil enough
Reply to this commentI think thats a bit cruel, do they move around much after being cut open?
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