Comments on: Chinatown Pictures

By: Zina

Zina — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:48:14 +0000

To answer your question, I just ate the seaweed plain as a snack. Delicious. But then I got thyroid disease, and seaweed has loads of iodine, which the thyroid uses, but I can never remember iodine is good or bad for fast or slow thyroids. I do still eat sushi with seaweed and I love that, too, but I don’t know how to make my own. We learned how in Enrichment night in Berkeley once (see, here I go missing California again,) but it was one of those times when they had one too many cool classes to attend and I missed that one.

By: Gary F.

Gary F. — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:50:26 +0000

Man, if I had know dried sea cucumbers went for so much I would not have thrown the ones I grabbed back into the sea. They are fun to grab, they feel like those stress foam things.

By: Di

Di — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:18:36 +0000

i’m laughing at Karen’s turd comment - i love it!
I HEART Chinatown - did you know it is the largest Chinatown in the US and…. it basically rocks the house. Thanks for taking me to get soup dumplings on a regular occasion love!

By: Karen Liu

Karen Liu — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:26:53 +0000

PS- the dried sea cucumbers look like turds in a jar…

By: Karen Liu

Karen Liu — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:24:36 +0000

Hey Danu- Mama Liu puts dried abalone in soup. One piece per pot of water. It adds great flavor to the broth. BTW, I’m guessing the Japan Oma abalone is to abalone what Kobe beef is to beef?

By: danithew

danithew — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:11:58 +0000

Zina, no worries! I love to see your comments.

How do you use seaweed? Are you rolling your own sushi?

By: Zina

Zina — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:57:36 +0000

I lied. Sorry. I just wanted to say that I now see that the higher price is for a different product. (Duh.)

By: Zina

Zina — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:56:11 +0000

Aaaaand (last comment for today, I promise,) here’s a link about the uses of abalone:

http://www.chinesefood-recipes.com/food_articles/abalone_chinese_cooking.php

By: Zina

Zina — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:52:46 +0000

That should say “didn’t even *think* about what comes . . .” (etc.)

And now I’m thinking the seaweed was even as much as $45/lb. But I got a good bundle and it was just a couple dollars.

By: Zina

Zina — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:46:24 +0000

So which is it, $138/lb or $1380/lb? Or are they two different kinds, one being 10x more expensive? Dean got really nervous once when I was buying some dried seaweed in bulk that was something like $30.00/lb — but this dried seaweed was VERY lightweight. It does make you want to make the cashier take it out of the bag to weigh it, though. I wonder how heavy dried abalone is. (I’ve only ever thought of abalone as a nice shell that makes pretty buttons — didn’t even about what comes inside the shell.)

Now I’m hungry for seaweed. I wonder if they have it at the local health food store — but I don’t remember seeing it there. And now I’m missing California.