A wing of the museum · Plate and market
Asian food cultures and markets
Wet markets, bird's nest and shark fin, the end of dog meat in South Korea, the licensed fugu chef, and the economics of tuna.
3 rooms
Walk the wing
Room 1 · Ongoing · grades 6-8 and up
Markets and delicacies
What a wet market is, edible bird's nest, shark fin soup, South Korea's dog-meat law, and food as status.
Room 2 · Since 1949
Fugu and poisonous puffers
A poison inside a fish, the licensed chef, and the puffers of Florida: poisonous versus venomous.
Room 3 · 1935 to 2026
The economics of tuna
The record New Year auction, Tsukiji to Toyosu, bluefin collapse and recovery, and the tuna in the can.