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A series of videos about sashimi preparation on Japanese video sharing website Niconico has completely enraptured viewers with its mouth-watering content.

Each of the videos, which are between five to ten minutes long, features a different type of fish and follows a professional chef as he deftly transforms a whole fish into slices of delectable sashimi. Don’t watch these videos on an empty stomach!

Like all the Japanese viewers out there, we were completely transfixed while watching the chef prepare different types of sashimi. There’s something hypnotizing about watching his swift and careful movements as he first removes the internal organs and washes the inside, then methodically begins chopping through bone and descaling the filet, before finally slicing the flesh diagonally into smaller, sashimi-sized portions.

As of now, the Niconico video channel Kabike features videos of sashimi being prepared using great amberjack, tai, flounder, striped jack, flathead, salmon, and cuttlefish. There are rumors of future videos being made to show the process behind preparing bigfin reef squid, hairtail, and daggertooth pike conger (an eel).

Let’s take a look at a few of the videos now!

Note: You may be required to log in to a Niconico account to watch the videos themselves.

Tai (a species of red Pacific sea bream)

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Great amberjack

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Salmon

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If you search on Kabike’s channel, you can find more videos of the previously listed fish being turned into sashimi.

Hopefully any aspiring sashimi chefs out there have learned a thing or two!

Source: Culture LAB
Images: Niconico (Kabike)