Today, some of my students made me some Korean sushi. It has a Korean name but I didn't memorize it. Anyway, they are a husband and wife and the wife gave me a tupperware of it while her husband was out of the room. She said "All vegetable" so I would know it was vegetarian. I promptly popped two into my mouth and chewed happily. They were good! The husband came in and said "You are vegetarian but you eat fish right?" Ummmmm..... no. Uh-oh. Turns out the whitish pink thing was imitation razor clam. But imitation just means it is halibut flavored like clam. Ugh... I looked at my beautiful tupperware of sushi and at their stricken faces and started to push the pieces of offending meet out 'Jenga' style. I put the clam on a paper towel and gave it back to them so it wouldn't go to waste. They bowed and thanked me. I thanked them and chowed down on my sushi trying not to think about the two pieces I had eaten before. Now I had 8 pieces of sushi that looked like rice donuts because of the hole in the middle.
Sadly, the sushi tasted better with the clam. But they were still delicious!!
Larissa had me eating these things, and this is the first I've heard of the clams. Thanks a lot.
ReplyDeleteHah! You finally ate fish!!! Well, now that you see it did not kill you, let's have a fish fry! Mahi
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