sea critters

[kimpossible]

How many different kinds of sea life will you eat? I'll devour just about any crustacean, fish, eel, cephalopod or mollusk but I don't think I eat any of the mammals (yet) or sluggy things like sea cucumbers. Okay, I've eaten sea slug but I don't like it.

As un-PC as it is, I'd like to try whale.

[SunWuKong]

how many? i'm cantonese! i'll eat anything! :P


but yeah i want to try whale too.

[deez nuts]

YW Fear Factor Round 2!

Badtz Badtz Maru looks tasty....right now.

[DaBestSpooner]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Dec 24 2002, 12:15 PM
how many? i'm cantonese! i'll eat anything! :P


but yeah i want to try whale too.
I'm cantonese and I'm engaged to a japanese chick, so I'll eat anything including endangered species!

[luv]

I think I'll try to eat anything once, but (I know this is sea critter thread) I draw the line at the following:

snakes
scorpions
field mice -- grams says this is Cantonese specialty
dogs/cats --why can't dog meat be mixed with mung bean?
horse
birds nest

but I think that's it...I don't have any problems with sea cucumbers though..

[pfc beansprout]

Originally posted by luv@Dec 25 2002, 12:02 PM
I think I'll try to eat anything once, but (I know this is sea critter thread) I draw the line at the following:

snakes
scorpions
field mice -- grams says this is Cantonese specialty
dogs/cats --why can't dog meat be mixed with mung bean?
horse
birds nest

but I think that's it...I don't have any problems with sea cucumbers though..
LOL..sea cucumbers..just reminds me of the jackass movie..where steve-o and umm..party boy? went underwater and 'jerked off' to a sea cucumber...fuckin hilarious!


btw, allergic to shellfish here, so i tend to avoid most seafood just in case.. :( maybe i'm missin out :o

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by luv@Dec 25 2002, 12:02 PM
I think I'll try to eat anything once, but (I know this is sea critter thread) I draw the line at the following:

snakes
scorpions
field mice -- grams says this is Cantonese specialty
dogs/cats --why can't dog meat be mixed with mung bean?
horse
birds nest

but I think that's it...I don't have any problems with sea cucumbers though..
bird's nest and snakes? what's wrong with those two? especially bird's nest?

and bean?

[wylin]

as long as it moves, its game!

I want dolphin "full" tuna, if its intellegent it must make me smarter!

Also when i see baby seals i think "we be clubbing", yum!

[contra_diction]

:gross:
yuck! seafood?

....maybe fish sticks, or tuna. that's it, though.

[luv]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Dec 25 2002, 01:09 PM
Originally posted by luv@Dec 25 2002, 12:02 PM
I think I'll try to eat anything once, but (I know this is sea critter thread) I draw the line at the following:

snakes
scorpions
field mice -- grams says this is Cantonese specialty
dogs/cats --why can't dog meat be mixed with mung bean?
horse
birds nest

but I think that's it...I don't have any problems with sea cucumbers though..
bird's nest and snakes? what's wrong with those two? especially bird's nest?

and bean?
sorry sorta talking to myself there. ma says that mung bean eaten with (or within the same meal as) dog meat will give people deadly case of food poisoning.

I tend to think of birds nest as endangered species. Ever since I heard that Birds Nest is essentially swan "spit" that hardens to house their eggs. People harvest these "nests" for soup leaving the poor swans without a place to lay their eggs. To have a substantial nest or the rare "huet yeen" -- a swan would have to kill itself (hence the blood in the Birds Nest) producing the mucous. So yes its a stupid nest, but it kills the bird, the birds family, and any future birds.

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by luv@Dec 25 2002, 11:56 PM
Originally posted by SunWuKung@Dec 25 2002, 01:09 PM
Originally posted by luv@Dec 25 2002, 12:02 PM
I think I'll try to eat anything once, but (I know this is sea critter thread) I draw the line at the following:

snakes
scorpions
field mice -- grams says this is Cantonese specialty
dogs/cats --why can't dog meat be mixed with mung bean?
horse
birds nest

but I think that's it...I don't have any problems with sea cucumbers though..
bird's nest and snakes? what's wrong with those two? especially bird's nest?

and bean?
sorry sorta talking to myself there. ma says that mung bean eaten with (or within the same meal as) dog meat will give people deadly case of food poisoning.

I tend to think of birds nest as endangered species. Ever since I heard that Birds Nest is essentially swan "spit" that hardens to house their eggs. People harvest these "nests" for soup leaving the poor swans without a place to lay their eggs. To have a substantial nest or the rare "huet yeen" -- a swan would have to kill itself (hence the blood in the Birds Nest) producing the mucous. So yes its a stupid nest, but it kills the bird, the birds family, and any future birds.
oh so it's not a matter of thinking that it's disgusting? it's really an ethical thing.

[luv]

Yep, bird's nest purely ethical matter. Snake -- I'm just scared I'll start having bad case of nose bleeding (supposed to be incredibly "yeet hai" hot breath??).

I want to try good quality abalone -- love sliced conch. What is "Peeing Shrimp" ? I hear about it all the time, do the shrimps really pee when you boil them?

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by luv@Dec 26 2002, 12:26 AM
Yep, bird's nest purely ethical matter. Snake -- I'm just scared I'll start having bad case of nose bleeding (supposed to be incredibly "yeet hai" hot breath??).

I want to try good quality abalone -- love sliced conch. What is "Peeing Shrimp" ? I hear about it all the time, do the shrimps really pee when you boil them?
hehehh you know i have a british friend in HK who grew up in HK and he used that term "yeet hei". i'm like damn! hahah i don't even use that term. i mean he not only knows what it means but he used it. he was like "no i don't want any, that's yeet hei". hahah!

yeah laai liu hah (peeing shrimp) is really good! best cooked by frying with garlic i think. i thought they were called that because they are really juicy and juice spills out when you cook or eat them? i don't know. but they're reeeaaally good.

[axi0m]

Eel is awesome. Uh... not seafood but I'd eat dog if I had the chance.

-Satoshi-

[Bbc84]

Im cantonese and Ill eat anything thats in the water. Although Sea Cucumbers i dont eat. I drink the soup when they are used as an ingredient or eat the vegies and mushrooms when cooked in oyster sauce.

[angel nympho]

If it's edible, I'll eat it at least once.

[ChairmanMah]

i don't like sea cuc. or frog leg.

i like abalone, and i think i enjoyed geoduck.

I've tried sea snail as a child but i don't remember it being that good.

Beside's that, i think i like everything else.

[iris]

I hate sea cucumbers so much. They look funny and taste even worse. I don't eat bird's nest because I can't get over the fact that I'm drinking spit. :gross: :frown:

[karizma]

ew sea cucumbers....i remember looking at them as they soaked in water...and omg they looked so nasty...i thought it was a vegetable until i saw it moving on discovery channel when i was little..then i became even more digusted ughhh...

abalone is supposed to be a delicacy but i dont like i too much...then again ive only had it in jook so *shrugs*

shrimp is yum...ill eat almost any edible fish....scallops...oysters n clams!! eel is damn good...i really want to try sea urchin though =)...squid is good..octopus is gross...umm...oh..shark fin soup is DAMN good but i dont exactly like the idea of a shark being killed for its fin =P...

i guess thats it for me...oh yea..crabs n lobsters yummm...crawfish look gross i wont touch it.

[SunWuKong]

hmmm... this thread makes me want to go to sai gung for seafood. they have all this seafood that i can't even name. you tell them what you want and they give you a table and cook it for you.

[thaite]

Sea cucumbers are on the bottom of the food chain. Don't know if I'd find them all that yummy.

[amietron]

sea urchin kinda slithers down your throat.
fresh abalone is really yum. ate it raw.

i like tenderness and crunch. mmmmm.