When both my missus and I were still working, we did not have all that time to cook and there were occasions when we had food delivered to the house by a caterer but more often than not, we did not stick to one for more than a month or at the most, two, as after a while, we would get so sick of the food and ended up throwing everything away.
Well, every day, we would check to see what was in the tiffin carrier and one thing that we would just throw away without any second thought whenever we saw it would be…seaweed soup! I think this is a Foochow dish and perhaps, the caterers did not do it well. There were two types – one darker and curly and the other thicker, in a greyish shade of green, and both had that horrendous fishy kind of smell and tasted ghastly! Most of the time, they would just cook these in some very very diluted pork bone stock soup and add salt and msg. Actually, they sell these two varieties of seaweed at the wet market, pre-soaked, ready to cook and of course, we never bought them, thank you very much.
However, we did know jolly well even at that point in time that eating seaweed could be somewhat beneficial especially owing to its high content of iodine which would be good especially for people suffering from thyroid but still, nothing would get us to eat that!
Then more recently, Japanese cuisine started to make the scene around here and people started making and selling sushi. My girl is very much into Japanese food and she has made her own sushi quite a few times herself…
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To wrap the rice rolls, she would use these big sheets of seaweed…
…that we can buy at the supermarkets in town. I can’t say I’m a die-hard fan but I will eat when there is any lying around just that I would not go out and buy and when dining at some Japanese joint, that would not be my priority when it comes to ordering things from the menu…but yes, I would order the ones that my girl likes just so she would be able to enjoy them.
Then, I saw this post in my friend, Jennifer’s blog on seaweed munchies and that brought to mind these…
…seaweed snacks that my girl likes a lot and will buy regularly to eat.
This is sold in little packets of a number of seaweed sheets inside…
…in one big pack of quite a lot of packets.
Each sheet is very very thin…
…thinner than sheets of paper and yes, I’ve tried it before and yes, I would say they’re quite nice – not anything to get me jumping with delight but I quite enjoy them. If I remember correctly, I cut them into thin strips once and added them to my miso soup and also to my bowl of ramen…
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…and yes, it was a pretty nice combination.
What about the rest of you? Are you fond of eating seaweed? How do you go about cooking and eating it? Come, let’s hear it from everybody…
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 