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[Mr. Ugly]

I snack on sea cucumbers

 

[mike1962]

Mmmm... Sea Cucumbers!! ... Actually, aren't Sea Cucumbers a delicacy in Japan? I remember a very long time a go when I was in Baja on the Sea of Cortez, that a local told me that the Sea Cucumber population was getting wiped out because they were being caught and sold abroad... Sorry for the digression... Welcome Hiep! One new guy to another!

 

[Elite]

Welcome to BAR Michael and Hiep!!

 

[Tumbleweed]

Welcome Welcome Welcome

 

[Mr. Ugly]

[quote author=Mike1962 link=topic=431.msg46606#msg46606 date=1213938813]
Mmmm... Sea Cucumbers!! ... Actually, aren't Sea Cucumbers a delicacy in Japan?[/quote]

Don't even have to go that far.

Used to get that at Chinese banquets locally. Is that still the case? Been a while since I've gone to one.

Ever see those things in Chinatown? They're all dried up. To prep them, you char the outside to get rid of whatever, then soak it for a couple days to rehydrate. You have to keep changing the water. It can get stinky.

After you're done smacking people with them, you cook em up with abalone and fancy shiitakes

 

[mike1962]

Interesting Mr. Ugly! Now I'm curious what they taste like! Though the the thought of populations of them being wiped out due to its being a desirable food source would prevent me from trying them. ... Thanks again for the welcomes everyone!

 

[Elite]

yup still can get them at Chinese restaurant. It's good if you know how to cook them. Taste really bad if you don't. You won't want to eat anything else after you have a bad one..

 

[corals b 4 bills]

Hey Hep! You took the BAR plunge!...................Ah you did it now, Alright guy's let's go easy on him, I think the Bikini Waxing should do it.

 

[Ibn]

You're going to easy on him, Mark. About time you joined a local forum, Hiep.

Yup, cucumber is used pretty often in chinese cooking, especially the banquets.

 

[hiepatitis]

Thanks for the welcomes. I finally decided to join the dark side.

You guys do know what cucumbers eat right? Fish crap

 

[Elite]

no wonder why it taste like fish when it's not done right ;D

 

[Gomer]

[quote author=hiepatitis link=topic=431.msg46653#msg46653 date=1213990294]
You guys do know what cucumbers eat right?
[/quote]

Probably the same thing lobster, crab, catfish and fungal mushrooms eat. Organic corn meal.

 

[hiepatitis]

It's the circle of life... I think

 

[GreshamH]

[quote author=Elite link=topic=431.msg46617#msg46617 date=1213941092]
yup still can get them at Chinese restaurant. It's good if you know how to cook them. Taste really bad if you don't. You won't want to eat anything else after you have a bad one..
[/quote]

And if cooked right they don't taste much like anything I used to harvest them, along with scallops, rockcod, seawead, abalone, urchins, mussles, gooseneck barnacles, crabs and a few other fish for a sushi/Japanese appitizer session prior to a giant 9 course abalone meal. It was a trip to Stillwater Cove where people paid to go on and a few of us cooked up a huge storm

 

[Elite]

It's the sauce (MGS) that make it good ;D ..

Anyone knows where to buy fresh Abalone?

 

[Tumbleweed]

[quote author=Elite link=topic=431.msg48911#msg48911 date=1215882255]
It's the sauce (MGS) that make it good ;D ..

Anyone knows where to buy fresh Abalone?
[/quote]

Don't you meen MSG?
I have a container of it in the kitchen. Use it all of the time.

 

[tuberider]

[quote author=Elite link=topic=431.msg48911#msg48911 date=1215882255]
It's the sauce (MGS) that make it good ;D ..

Anyone knows where to buy fresh Abalone?
[/quote]Cultured are pretty easy to find, if your serious I can call some friends to see where the closest retailer is.

 

[Elite]

I thought I wrote MSG ??? .. Not only I'm colorblind, I'm now having problem putting letter in order ..


Yeah Jeremy.. LMK.. Haven't have fresh abalone for a while now.

 

[GreshamH]

In Oakland Puson Plaza carries cultured. They really aren't hard to find.

 

[DML08]

my name is Dominc and I'm a reef-aholic!... I have a 44g with 6 T5HO and my wife has a 32g clown tank.. we got into this hobby about 7 months ago and were addicted from the get go.. I'm a lil far from most of you guys .. I live in los banos but work in south san jose and the monterey bay area..I found this site through tuberider when he posted a invite to the frag swap to our club out here (CVR).. well glad to find another local site...