http://japundit.com/archives/2006/12/16/4476/

I'll have one of those! :-)



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From the same website (and I think this one's legit):


"Something shaky is about to hit Japanese meal tables - poisonous
giant jellyfish!

Wobbling its way onto the Japanese cuisine are huge Echizen jellyfish,
which have been appearing in massive schools flocking off the Sea of
Japan coastline and gorging on more palatable fare, like prized maguro
tuna.

"Making them a popular food is the best way to solve the problem,"
Shunjiro Ueno, a professor at the National Fisheries University in
Shimonoseki, tells Sunday Mainichi."

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From the same website (and I think this one's legit):


"Something shaky is about to hit Japanese meal tables - poisonous
giant jellyfish!

Wobbling its way onto the Japanese cuisine are huge Echizen jellyfish,
which have been appearing in massive schools flocking off the Sea of
Japan coastline and gorging on more palatable fare, like prized maguro
tuna.

"Making them a popular food is the best way to solve the problem,"
Shunjiro Ueno, a professor at the National Fisheries University in
Shimonoseki, tells Sunday Mainichi."


This huge population explosion of giant jellyfish (echizen kurage) has been
noticed in Japan
for the last 3-4 years. These jellyfish are really huge, easily 3 feet in
diameter, and travel in huge
groups so that they effectively destroy commercial net fishing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqfCm58SB6Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwmvN3091kQ

As the the reason for this population explosion various theories have been
kicked around from
water temperature changes connected to global warming, to the increase in
pollution from the
Yantgze River in China causing an increase in plankton due to heavy
industrialization.

There is an effort being made to deal with the problem by creating a market
demand for these
Jellyfish. The stumbling block is that in Japan, Jellyfish is not a usual
seafood item, and
is rather associated with Chinese cuisine. Anyway, good luck to whoever
finds a way to market them.
M

Musashi - Haven't i seen Japanese salad with jellyfish? - ww

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Musashi - Haven't i seen Japanese salad with jellyfish? - ww


You may have. But I assure you, using jellyfish is not
"traditional Japanese". Bearing in mind the possibility of some remote
regional use that I haven't come accross.
If you see a salad using Jellyfish in a Japanese Restaurant,
it is a Chinese or Chinese-style dish.
Of course any chef can create something new using ingredients traditional to
other cusines.
M