sea urchins rule!

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In Japan sea urchins are called Uni , at least the roe is. The first time I ate it I was in a very nice restaurant in Yokohama and it was served in the shell with about a 1/3 of the top was removed.

The roe is a nice yellow/orange and the rest looks like black mud.

I'm not sure where you live but remember how the ocean smells when you go there after a while away. That is what Uni tastes like.

BTW most Uni served in Japan is harvested in California and air shipped there.

Mike
 
sea urchins rule!


When I was but a wee lad and I and my siblings were taken to the Caribees for the first time, we were solemnly advised to be extremely wary of sea urchins. We were told that stepping on one would hurt like bloody hell.


Naturally, we took that advice to heart and were very careful to avoid the damn things.


Forty-five years on, I was puzzled by their scarcity in some of my old haunts and worried that their absence was an indication that they were the victims of some obscure disease or yet another nameless threat to the biosystem when, lo and behold, I espied a host of the damn things while diving this winter in the West Indies.


I gave them a wide berth.





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Incidentally, the Wikipedia does not mention any decline in their population and does not mention any threats.
 
In Japan sea urchins are called Uni , at least the roe is. The first time I ate it I was in a very nice restaurant in Yokohama and it was served in the shell with about a 1/3 of the top was removed.

The roe is a nice yellow/orange and the rest looks like black mud.

I'm not sure where you live but remember how the ocean smells when you go there after a while away. That is what Uni tastes like.

BTW most Uni served in Japan is harvested in California and air shipped there.

Mike

wow! very informative, thanks. :kiss:
 


When I was but a wee lad and I and my siblings were taken to the Caribees for the first time, we were solemnly advised to be extremely wary of sea urchins. We were told that stepping on one would hurt like bloody hell.


Naturally, we took that advice to heart and were very careful to avoid the damn things.


Forty-five years on, I was puzzled by their scarcity in some of my old haunts and worried that their absence was an indication that they were the victims of some obscure disease or yet another nameless threat to the biosystem when, lo and behold, I espied a host of the damn things while diving this winter in the West Indies.


I gave them a wide berth.




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Incidentally, the Wikipedia does not mention any decline in their population and does not mention any threats.

did you take pictures? good story. :rose:
 
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