This is the gruesome moment fish tries to leap from a sizzling frying pan as it is apparently cooked alive on a kitchen hob.
The shocking footage appeared on China’s version of TikTok, Douyin, on 25th January, and shows a woman preparing a Spring Festival dish of carp.
Although the fish has a slit along its abdomen and appears to have been gutted, as soon as it hits the frying pan it thrashes around in apparent agony.
The clip shows it flying out of the frying pan and making the pan move off the gas burner when it lands back in as the cook laughs and screams hysterically before the footage ends.
Experts say the Frankenstein fish was dead but because there was still residual nerve activity in its body and it was triggered by the heat of the pan.
One biological chemistry expert explained: “Most of the tissue is actually still alive.
“Cell metabolites are nearly intact, membrane voltages or potentials that exist in nerve cells are probably still close to intact.
“Even though the brain function is missing, the tissues will still respond to stimuli.”
One social media user named as ‘South Wind Knows My Intentions’ confirmed: “I learned to cook fish for the first time the day before yesterday, and it was like this.
“I was scared to death, almost crying, and let it die for two hours before stewing.”
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