A buddy of mine told me about a business trip he took to Japan. A street vendor was breading and frying live eels the size of French fries. He said they tasted incredible.
There is an impossibly elegant Japanese restaurant in PARIS that serves nothng but unagi.......eel cooked in a special Japanese sauce.
It was opened by a Japanese restauranteur....and sophisticated parisians are flockng to the place paying big bucks to eat unagi.