What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Ovaries of the Japanese pufferfish ... tasty fugu but their rich-flavored testes called “shirako.” Still, even die-hard fans probably never imagined consuming the “mako” ovaries ...

The Japanese word “omakase” directly translates ... rare component of the puffer fish in the form of the puffer fish shirako (sperm sacs). Shirako isn’t often seen on restaurant menus ...