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Originally Posted by fuji
Those things are awful. I was given one to eat at a wedding in HK. I disposed of it after trying it.
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Are you sure it wasn't Abalone? That ****'s a delicacy.
 

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Originally Posted by sonick
Are you sure it wasn't Abalone? That ****'s a delicacy.

At chinese restaurants/supermarkets you can commonly find signs for geoduck... much to the chagrin of pre-pubescent Pokemon fans.
 

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Originally Posted by Jenaimarr
At chinese restaurants/supermarkets you can commonly find signs for geoduck... much to the chagrin of pre-pubescent Pokemon fans.

Yeah, but the texture/appearance of geoduck is quite similar to abalone.
 

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Originally Posted by fuji
Those things are awful. I was given one to eat at a wedding in HK. I disposed of it after trying it.
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OMG, ur kidding! Thats one of the world's most expensive delicacies, in London it sells at $120 a plate ( I take it we're talking abalone). Or maybe razorshell, far less expensive, but gorgeous.
 

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Originally Posted by fuji
Those things are awful. I was given one to eat at a wedding in HK. I disposed of it after trying it.
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you should try the sea cucumber
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Originally Posted by sonick
Are you sure it wasn't Abalone? That ****'s a delicacy.
Man, I miss a couple years ago when my Grandpa would go Ab diving up in Sacramento area. We had abalone every Thanksgiving, breaded and fried. It looked nothing like a Geoduck though, that looks like something you'd find in fringe Japanese...adult movies
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Last couple years, the regulations have all but eliminated any diving for them.
 

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Originally Posted by longskate88
Man, I miss a couple years ago when my Grandpa would go Ab diving up in Sacramento area. We had abalone every Thanksgiving, breaded and fried. It looked nothing like a Geoduck though, that looks like something you'd find in fringe Japanese...adult movies
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Last couple years, the regulations have all but eliminated any diving for them.


If whole it doesn't look similar, but when sliced into thin slices they do.
 

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It might have been abalone. It was brown and slimy and cut into very thin slices so it definately wasn't breaded and fried. I have already tried sea cucumber. I didn't like that too much either. I don't perticulerly like many of those weird slimy sea slug types of things.
 

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Originally Posted by VKK3450
There is no way that's for real. It looks straight out of a kids TV show!!
Its behaviour is even more bizarre than its look, actually. Look it up.
 

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Mmm sea cucumber is delicious. I wonder how many items in this thread is featured in Chinese cuisine...
 

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Im sure you could eat that giant coconut crab and the oar fish. Come to think of a coconut crab sounds great because of how huge it is.
 

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Originally Posted by fuji
Im sure you could eat that giant coconut crab and the oar fish. Come to think of a coconut crab sounds great because of how huge it is.

Coconut crabs are edible, and is quite expensive. Though I've never seen one that big. I haven't tasted it myself but the acidicwife claims that the meat is sweeter than your regular crab.
 

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Looks like it was designed by HR Giger.
 

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