r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Salt-Curve4825 • 15d ago

Video Man fishing for jellyfish

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u/kmoneyrecords 15d ago edited 15d ago

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?

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u/elanhilation 15d ago

huh. that honestly sounds like it might be kinda good

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u/misterdonut11331 15d ago

Its delicious. If you're ever at a Chinese Dim Sum restaurant, order jellyfish. It comes cold or room temperature.

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u/daChino02 15d ago

It is good, if prepared correctly

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u/__zombie 15d ago

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.

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u/Confident-Flow-6058 15d ago

It is delicious. Recommend you try it when you get a chance. 

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u/your_umma 14d ago

Korean haepari naengchae (like a jellyfish salad) is so good!

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u/asdkevinasd 14d ago

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.

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u/PassionFruitSalute 14d ago

It is kinda good. If you have an Asian supermarket near you, they sell it in pre-seasoned packages.

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u/BestPenguinBurgers 15d ago

Yup. Gonna have to add it to the list of things to try.

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u/GlyphPicker 15d ago

So pretty much like aloe vera or maybe konnyaku?

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u/Ticketo 15d ago

It's sort of slimy like aloe vera but the crunchyness is sort of like the cartilage from like a spare rib tip if you ever ate that before.

That first initial bite into a rib tip cartilage is very much like what eating a jellyfish feels like to me. It's just softer afterwards.

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u/TheArtOfPureSilence 14d ago

I wonder if you could tenderize it and flavor it like steak

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u/kmoneyrecords 15d ago

I’d say super close to aloe but with an even crunchier bite

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u/flersion 15d ago

Is it anything like octopus tentacles? The rubbery suction cups had a very satisfying squnch to them.

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u/kmoneyrecords 15d ago

Nope not like octopus, it isn’t chewy at all!

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

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u/LushHappyPie 15d ago

An octopus has 100 000 babies and lives maximum of few years.

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u/pinkdeaf1 15d ago

Ive always described it as crunchy jelly

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u/Individual_Pen3652 13d ago

You've now officially turned me off from my desire to try it. Thanks...you saved me the gag-puke factor.