Restoring legacy components <very OT>

[Goh Lip]

On 01/30/2011 04:48 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 03:12 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
>>
>>> Yes it is. Some people like kidney pies or jellied eels too. I prefer my
>>> braised sea slugs but I won't insist you should like it. :)
>>
>> A friend of mine from Taiwan bet me that if I would try snails in black
>> bean sauce, over rice, with a cold beer, that in a week I would crave
>> it. They were right! Tasty! ...until you get a bad snail. :) Ric
>

Did she recommend 'smelly toufu'? That's fermented (spoilt) and stinks 
to high heaven and is a specialty in Taiwan. I sometimes wonder if the 
Norwegians and Islandic people may enjoy this as much as they enjoyed 
'rotten whale/shark' and Taiwanese, rotten whale.

But since 'smelly toufu' is plant-based, perhaps Liam may find this 
acceptable?   :)

> I tried /trepang/ as a kid in a Chinese restaurant in Lagos, Nigeria
> (i.e., not a Westernized one.) Strictly trepang is sea-cucumber, not
> sea-slug, but it's the closest I know of.
>

"Trepang" is the Indonesian word for sea-cucumber or colloquially known 
as sea-slugs, echinoderm would be the scientific word and is related to 
the star fish and sea urchin. The Indonesian word was familiar to the 
west through the Dutch, but Indonesians normally do not eat trepangs.


> It was absolutely horrible. Like rubbery wet leather.
>
> But then, I became a vegetarian at about 14 years old - I never liked
> meat, even as a kid. I think it's wrong to eat animals /and/ I don't
> like the flavour, texture or smell of animal flesh, so I am happy
> veggie who never wants to go back.
>

Okay, it's not unusual to be vegetarian. Paul McCartney still one after 
his divorce?

Regards - Goh Lip


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