mysterious sea-plant
tsewei | May 23, 2007Went to try Okinawa cuisine for dinner yesterday on our friend Yuri’s recommendation. It’s really a fantastic place.
The restaurant is a little place right next to Ogikubo train station. Everything in there is Okinawan - the food, drinks, music, and even sand. haha. Ok, I doubt they actually brought the sand over, but I thought it was a cute setting, putting the tables on sand like we’re eating at the beach. :p
Okinawa food is supposed to be very healthy (people on that island live very long), and different from the usual japanese food. I thought this is definitely the most interesting thing of all:
It’s our salad. When I opened the box, there was like dry ice floating out, and the green little itty bitty things on top looked like fish roes to me. Turns out, they’re actually a type of vegetable/plant. Seaweed, that is. O_o Definitely one of the coolest thing I’ve seen so far. haha.
It looks like mini fish roe (on a stem), and when you eat it, it feels a bit like the tiny fish roe texture, but tastes totally different, un-fish-like, but also un-seaweed-like. But definitely tastes gooooood. 
yum.
i bet ma will want to try that. so, do
yEin | May 23, 2007 | 10:59 pmi bet ma will want to try that. so, do you feel any healthier after eating that?
yein: i don't think i will be able to detect
tsewei | May 24, 2007 | 1:38 pmyein: i don’t think i will be able to detect the lengthening of my lifespan haha. i just felt like eating more, that’s all.
That stuff is called 'umi no budo', literally, 'sea grapes'
Lrong | June 1, 2007 | 2:58 pmThat stuff is called ‘umi no budo’, literally, ’sea grapes’ and is a seaweed… I like the taste of it too…