You can actually see a second diver behind the victim move in and try to assist his buddy. But seriously, what can you do short of grabbing your dive knife and start hacking off limbs?

This guy had the cool mentality to wait it out and not harm the octopus, which I give kudos to. If it were me though, I'd be cooking fresh seafood once back on the boat...

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Frozen seafood can be better than fresh- but I think it's the case that the crappy, farmed fish is usually frozen, like Tilapia- while the nice fish is sold fresh for a higher margin. Trader Joe's has good frozen seafood.

As for the fresh vs. frozen vegies- I suppose that makes sense. We spend about $100 a week at the organic farmer's market- which beats frozen or supermarket fresh.

We're going to live forever- but be poor because it is a lot more expensive than the supermarket.

...and if you think frozen seafood/fish is as tasty as fresh, you're nuts.

i'm just glad that Wes's older brother is still in the business, sorta'.

i took their mother, Dorothy, out to a nice seafood dinner, once.

A lot of food tastes like seafood in Japan, even though it may not be seafood itself. This is because the basis of Japanese cooking is dashi, which is the stock of kombu (kelp) and fish flakes, like bonito. It's called the flavour of the sea and dashi is used to boil vegies, it's mixed with the egg in omelettes and egg rolls, it's the broth used in miso soup, noodles and hot pots and much more. Even rice is boiled with some kombu, so it can have a seaweedy taste.

Dashi is easy to make and very good for you. Most young people in Japan use the instant dashi packs, but older women/men know how to make the real deal. I was fortunate to meet some older talented women who passed on a lot of their knowledge to me.

We eat pretty well, including home-style Japanese cooking about 2-3 times a week. Thanks go out to Kuri sama, Daisy and Mayumi san for their patience and care in teaching me to cook kateika ryori. Arigato gozaimasu! Taihen osewa ni natte imasu yo!

I really can't remember what was in them. It was 2:30 in the morning and we were cramped on a tiny bus. I just remember that all the good tasted like seafood, even things that shouldn't have (it has a way of penetrating other foods)

But by it's self, I enjoyed a lot of the seafood there.

Glad to see you have an adventurous spirit, MG. Do you remember what was in the bento that you found so offensive? Was it animal, mineral or vegetable?

Japanese food falls into several categories. I'll list them starting with the most common/popular, to the highest cuisine styles.

1. Street food, including yakisoba, tako yaki (octopus in batter balls) and okonomi yaki (Cabbage pancakes), modan yaki, tai yaki (fish-shaped cakes filled with red beans) etc

2. Street-style bento/bowl food, including rice with seaweed and grilled salmon, chicken kara-age, gyudon (beef bowls) etc

3. Izakaya food (pub food), which is a bit like tapas, in that it's small plates of all kinds of interesting yummies, fried and otherwise. My favourite is grilled eggplant in soy sauce

4. Ramen noodle shops can range from the hole-in-the wall to more expensive restaurants, but are usually the kind of food you grab on-the-run, which is why Japanese love to slurp their ramen as fast as they can.

5. Chinese food, which is appropriated to the Japanese palate, like gyoza (fried dumplings), haru maki (spring rolls), cha han, mabo dofu (chili with tofu) etc

6. Pizza restaurants are very popular. You can sample very Japanese style pizzas, that have kim-chi (pickled cabbage) or kamaboko (fish cakes) on them. Some pasta restaurants can be quite classy, usually because they have a European trained chef.

7. Kateika which is home-cooked food, including grilled fish, like salmon and mackeral, rice, miso soup, nabe yaki (hot pots) vegie and rice dishes like gomoku gohan, curry rice, omu rice (a kind of omelette) etc


8. All-you-can-eat restaurants sell food like shabu shabu and suki yaki and are very popular, usually offer all-you-can drink as well.

9. Sushi, including sashimi and all the varieties of sushi. Some sushi places are VERY expensive.

10. Soba restaurants specialise in all kinds of traditional noodle dishes and can be quite revered for their particular style.

11. Kaiseki Ryori is high cuisine, serving some of the foods you would find in osechi ryori and include the food served at a ryokan (Inn), like clear soups with rare mountain vegies, sashimi and delicacies in seafood. We were teated to some kaiseki ryori last time we visited friends in Japan and my favourite was tiny slices of hard butter in between slivers of dried persimmon. It was delicious!

I've probably left some out, but there you have it. Even after you've lived in Japan for some time, it can be quite difficult to become comfortable with some of the high-end stuff, unless you have an absolute love of seafood in its simplest form, because the flavour is usually very subtle.

I feel bad for people who are allergic to seafood there.

Looks very beautiful so i'll let it off the seafood

"Knife goes in, guts come out, that's what Osaka Seafood Concern is all about!"

just a reminder www.GODHATESSHRIMP.com
I wonder what should happen to people who break the old laws about people not eating shellfish.
hhmmm, next time I'm outside a seafood resturaunt I'll take a poll.
i guess my major problem with these peeps is that they don't advocate anything other than being against abortion.
meaning, no education or condoms to prevent abortions. no welfare or help after the kid is born.
sigh

A unilateral exercise in futility-a documentary produced, which has the effect of a band-aid on a sucking chest wound.....one of the reasons I eat anything as long as it is cooked or irradiated thoroughly, suck the marrow from bones when convenient, and protest fast-food corporations by not eating their, flawed, abominations of quisine....too much hydrogenated grease, prepared by domesticated primates with questionable grooming practices.....

SHOCKING!!!! ANIMALS ARE NOT TREATED FAIRLY WITH REGARD TOO MASS_PRODUCTION OF FOOD MASS CONSUMPTION!! The only thing that will ever stop such aberrations of industry is to shut it all down, or a disaster on a world-wide scale.....Wouldn't you, city dwelling, electricity customer, rather see cattle, seafood, and poultry take the first wave of poor living and dying conditions???

Stop poisoning your bodies with food for starters......Hell, look at India...they get by fine on lentils and rice, honey, cream, and nuts....

"Knife goes in, guts come out, that's what Osaka Seafood Concern is all about!"

oh my goodness,
that commercial was the best.i have four bunnies that i saved from a pet shop that were sick(one of their brothers didn't last 2 days) and now i take them everywhere with me. shopping, the seafood festival at Captree and two on a road trip to Virginia. I used to have rabbits feet for luck when i was a kid, and i thought the commercial was brilliant. it was funny and smart and well played out. who needs luck when you have insurance?i hate commercials, but this one was smart, made sense and was fun. thank you

chris goodman

CRAB BOIL FOR XMAS IN Aussie Islands, oh and did we mention, "Drunken Crab Golfing???!!".....Holiday spot #23...*mouth watering..karma loss......Do you realize how fucking tasty and fat you would be here on holiday????? Seafood Roadkill is for lazy folks......