Chef David Chang, in a now-deleted tweet, called the video "unnecessary cruelty for likes." PETA used a cropped version in a campaign against seafood consumption. Defenders of the dish argue that flash-blanching is no different than boiling lobsters alive, which is widely accepted in Western cuisine.
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This video succeeded where other gross-out videos fail because it is real . You can't look away from the authentic, unfiltered strangeness of global cuisine. Chef David Chang, in a now-deleted tweet, called