Not Only In Japan

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"Animal rights campaigners have criticised the Chinese over their extreme eating habits after a video of diners eating a live fish became a hit on the internet. The film, in which a part-fried fish is shown breathing and wriggling on a plate as it is being slowly eaten alive in a restaurant, has been posted on the video-sharing website YouTube. In order to keep the carp alive chefs cook its body but wrap its head in a wet cloth to keep it breathing, before covering it in sauce and serving in on a plate...Peta, the animal rights group, called the video, which had more than 120,000 views on YouTube in a week, 'disgusting'. A spokesperson said: 'Every decent person should be shocked when anyone mocks or abuses a helpless dying animal'"

From here