Have you ever found yourself saying, this food is just a little too dead for me? I’d prefer something completely uncooked, and preferably still trying to flop right off my plate. Well, this trend is for you.

Not content with the usual raw-meat suspects (beef tartare, tuna sashimi) one enterprising food blogger went all in by gobbling up raw beef heart, chicken sashimi and even live lobster.

Yes, New York based food blogger, Sarah Spigelman, brought her cast-iron stomach (and shaky camera skills) to take on some of the world’s rawest meats and seafoods.

Click here for the full wrap-up, but two items in particular had our jaw-dropping (and then quickly snapping shut lest the food somehow try to jump into our mouths). They are live lobster and raw chicken.

Served at the super-sleek Jewel Bako in Manhattan, lobster sashimi lets you pick your own crustacean (a la any good seafood house). However, instead of being boiled beyond recognition, these puppies are delicately dissected by a trained sushi chef and served immediately “to avoid the muscles tensing up and toughening.” Which means, the head is still flopping around while you’re trying to consume the tail. Although technically the lobster isn’t alive, it’s just the nerve endings still twitching (and the head is later re-usued in miso soup).

So how’s the taste? “Where cooked lobster is creamy, rich and soft, the raw lobster was light and a bit more touchy-feely toothsome.”

Meanwhile, the chicken, which seems like the last thing you’d want to eat raw, was actually the writer’s fav. Served at Yakitori Tori Shin in NYC, the “owner and chef assured me that they get their organic chickens daily from a top-secret supplier,” and it’s extremely popular with Japanese natives. The bird breast is lightly seared around the outside, but still completely raw across the middle.

So what does it taste like? “Silky-smooth with a clean taste … the taste and texture were similar to tuna sashimi … I even preferred it to cooked chicken … I ate the whole thing”

So basically we’re one step away from some trendy chef offering those monkey brains from the Indiana Jones movie. Please to enjoy

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