and I enjoy eating all of them,
photograph echinoblog.blogspot.com and related to them are the land based ones we know such as woodlice, which also have a deepsea counterpart, the Deep-Sea Giant Isopod (Bathynomus giganteus), above,
they spend their time on the sea bed floor waiting for manna from heaven to fall, or the carcasses of dead sea creatures in this isopods case to drop to the ocean floor for it to feed,
photographs Ramen
Boy/Facebook, and here they are ready for us to eat!
the Taipei-based restaurant, Ramen Boy, describes as a “dream ingredient”, called “Giant isopod
with creamy chicken broth ramen”, the dish consists of a large bowl of ramen
and a large isopod steamed in its own shell,
to prepare the deep-sea crustacean, the cooks remove the stomach viscera, keeping the creamy glands for consumption, and steam it. The white meat is said to taste like lobster and crab, while the yellow glands are “unexpectedly sweet”, the dish is not for everyone, it is only available to loyal restaurant patrons, the dish is priced at $48.00 or at today's rate £38.85, which I guess for locals is a tad expensive, by the way, if the fact that this giant isopod feeds on carcases on the ocean floor puts you off eating it, what do you think shrimps, prawns, crabs and lobsters all feed on?
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