Blowfish or Halibut “Bool Kogi”

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

One of Korea’s national dishes, bool kogi is thin-sliced, sweet-salty rib eye steak crustily grilled over charcoal. So what am I doing at a restaurant with a picture of a blowfish on the marquee and blowfish on the menu? For that matter, isn’t blowfish (aka pufferfish or bok, in Korean) another name for Japan’s infamous fugu—the delicate white fish that, when improperly filleted, contains a deadly toxin that kills dozens of Asians every year? And if blowfish is so dange