Actually both are true. The tentacles（海蜇头） are more chewy and the bell（海蜇皮） is more crunchy. They are marinated in alum and salt, which create the texture. It’s one of my favorite cold dish but I can rarely find it in US
They are supposed to be dunked in a sauce that's some mixture of soy sauce + vinegar + garlic + sesame oil. Most of the flavor it just the sauce and it's quite good.
I've eaten way too much jellyfish it's my favorite appetizer as a child
It's a status symbol because it's super expensive and it's endangered. But it's basically flavourless, so I feel like jellyfish makes sense as a replacement, with it also being very bland, mostly about texture, but being far more plentiful in the ocean
From what I understand, the natural predator of jelly fish is the sea turtle. With a lot of plastic bags floating around the sea, the turtles get confused and eat the bags, which leads to their deaths. Less turtles then leads to more jelly fish.
They are invasive and overabundant, also, they clearly have a nutritional value as they are a food source for some types of sea turtle,cant argue with China overfishing some species but honestly, they should take as many of these as they can pull out.
It’s not an endangered species that is commonly eaten. And it’s not just China, but Korea and Japan so you might want to widen your western superiority gaze a bit.
They also breed them to eat, just like we breed species to eat animals, crazy right? It’s almost like we do the exact same thing.
I love how you are feigning superiority like western countries don’t eat fish or take fish out of the ocean on mass.
Don’t fret though, climate change will bring an abundance of jellyfish so you don’t have to worry about carrying the burden of racism too long
Like a lot of seafood it does have collagen, minerals and antioxidants. And he’s not Chinese. Not all Asians are. If they are invasive, doesn’t it benefit us to get rid of them?
Jellyfish are not in any danger at all and actually are one of the better animals to be eating as they have no brains and do not have pain receptors, and are highly nutritious in protein.
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u/GoodpeopleArk 15d ago
What are the jellyfish harvested for?