A GLASGOW restaurant has launched a petition to lift the EU ban on puffer fish so it can serve up the potentially deadly delicacy.
A GLASGOW restaurant has launched a petition to lift the EU ban on puffer fish so it can serve up the potentially deadly delicacy.
Mitchell Lane's Bar Soba wants to put fugu - as it is known in Japan - on the menu despite the fish being lethal if not prepared correctly.
One puffer fish contains enough poison to kill 30 people and Japanese cooks need up to three years of training before they can prepare it.
But Bar Soba's head chef Nik Biok, who grew up in Asia, is determined to overturn the ban.
He said: "Glaswegians are open-minded people with mature tastes and an appreciation for quality fugu also tastes great."
But Struan Stevenson MEP, a member of the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament, said: "There is little likelihood of this European law being changed."
