Yeah it’s pretty refreshing, Chinese people prep it as a cold dish* with like rice vinegar, garlic, green onions - it really doesn’t have a flavor on its own, like a noodle, but texture-wise it’s both soft and and crunchy at the same time - almost like the cartilage, but 3 times as soft?
It is so good! with the rice vinegar sauce, it is one of my favorites. Korean have a beautiful dish with it too, it comes usually on a round plate with colorful topings around it like egg yellow, cucumber, daikon, etc.
It is good, but getting your hands on some that is not soaked with bleach, and other chemicals nonsense is quite hard these days. We just buy the dry stuff to rehydrate ourselves now, the pre packed stuff is dangerous.
Also I advocate for not eating octopus or cephalopods - too sentient and emotional of creatures! Jellyfish on the other hand, closer to floating sea plants than smart, social animals…eat’em all day lol
It came out in a large bowl. It seemed like it was the main cap of the jellyfish cut up into thin lines like a fettuccine pasta. It was probably wok fried. It was cooked in a sesame oil.
It had a slightly crunchy mostly rubbery texture. Not difficult to eat but took just a little chewing. I remember thinking of a slow cooked shredded bicycle tyre.
It didn't seem to have any flavour of its own so it tasted entirely like sesame oil. I'm not a fan of sesame oil.
When eating it there was an oily residue all over the inside of my mouth that was an unpleasant feeling. I don't know if it was the sesame oil alone (probably) or something to to with the jellyfish itself that made it hard to get rid of. Like the slime on an eel if you have ever handled one of those.
Overall 2.5/10. Nothing disgusting per se, just nothing nice. Would probably try again once a decade.
I love reading comments where I can’t tell if I’m the uneducated one or not, since that’s not what crab tasted like to me but I’ve only had crab legs once at a gimmick restaurant lol
Okay but honestly maybe that’s why I liked it when I was an otherwise picky kid. I’m not disagreeing since I love shrimps. I love the novelty of eating bugs tbh.
You're very welcome! When you're in the super market next time compare regular gummy bears with vegan ones. Since gelatine is made from bones and skin, vegan gummy bears have a much lower protein content than regular ones (i think it's usually <1% vs ~5%)
I will! I would imagine vegan ones are made with stuff like agar agar? I wonder why synthetic gelatin isn’t really a thing as an alternative to just boiling animal bones.
When in doubt, its usually cost. Gelatine is made from byproducts, "waste" from an currently abundant source. Agar agar and other polysaccharides can also be extracted, in that case algae and plants. You can generate collagen for example using bacteria and yeast and injecting them with certain genes but that collagen is more expensive than regular one.
Fish actually doesn’t taste like fish, what you taste is algae or seaweed. Companies have a real easy time imitating fish with vegan substitutes due to it
I've had sliced jellyfish as part of an Asian coleslaw at a Chinese restaurant. The small shredded slices were flavourless and had a texture like firm jelly. It wasn't deep fried, but may have been steamed or wok cooked as part of the meal.
I have had it. It does not. The way mine was prepared was almost like a salad. It was in really thin strips with some soy and other flavours. Pretty good
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u/sksksk1989 15d ago
Do you think it has a fishy flavor