/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12132738
I don't know, eating seafood always seemed a bit fishy to me.

>>12132777
Chuckles. You just won the internet good sir.

>>12132738
Octopus, squid, scallops, mussels, and shrimp all taste very distinct. Did you by chance get the "seafood delight" pasta at a place with a name that sounded something like Polive Darden?

>>12132786
Not olive garden but yes it was seafood pasta.

>>12132738
I feel disgusted for my valencian brothers that you dare call this paella. Well "paeria" because you can't be bothered to name it right.

>>12132796
copied the pic from a chink website, don't know why they misspelled it.
http://www.jp.square-enix.com/artnia/menu/

>>12132795
>seafood pasta
In actual decent seafood pasta the taste of shrimp is kinda subdued actually

>>12132901
>clam with shells in pasta
Anyone else find this weird?
Do you eat around the shells first and then eat the clams last? Do you dig out the clams, eat them, and then eat the shell free pasta?

>>12132738

Most seafood is actually pretty damn awful. Despite what shories will tell you, it's 100% an acquired taste.

That being said a nice shrimp gumbo is top

>>12132921
well you can eat the clam with the fork and then put the shells aside

>>12132738
You need to try fresh, quality seafood cooked or raw separately rather than a dish with everything cooked together and who knows how fresh it was. As >>12132786 said, all these seafoods have a very distinct taste. In a blind taste test I could absolutely tell the difference between shrimp, clams, mussels, oysters, crab, lobster, tuna, salmon, catfish, scallops, etc. I'm not super experienced with squid and octopus, but they do taste different from the other things I mentioned. If you don't live in a coastal city or a city that has restaurants you can trust for fresh seafood (ie. Las Vegas is close enough to the coast and has a lot of restaurants on and off strip that can be trusted for fresh seafood), then only buy it fresh from a trusted seafood market. I stupidly ordered a salmon roll from a sushi/hibachi restaurant in a small town smack dab in the middle of GA, and it was so horrible I could only choke down two pieces in an effort to be polite and not come off like an elitist city snob.

>>12134542
>Las Vegas is close enough to the coast
That's not why Las Vegas has fresh seafood. Also, you don't need to follow some Jiro rules of etiquette at a sushi restaurant in bumfuck Georgia.

>>12132921
you just crunch them up dumbass, it's not that hard

>>12136502
I was with in-laws who've lived in the same town their entire lives, very rarely to never even leave the county lines. They are amazing, and we come from very different worlds. I didn't want to complain about the food when they were so excited to take me to the new fancy Japanese restaurant knowing I enjoy sushi. But it really was inedible, and I am extremely open with food, so it was nightmare worthy for the average person. I was as polite as possible and finished my miso soup and that ginger dressed salad you always get at hibachi places.

Also yes, Vegas has a lot of extremely fresh, high quality seafood for tourists at various price ranges. But, off strip, places that tourists never go, you can still get some great stuff at very reasonable prices. Also on the west side (not sure about anywhere else) there are a few seafood markets that sell live shellfish and fresh whole fish or filleted fish.

>>12136542
>i was with in-laws
You could have just stopped there. Nobody wants to read your blog.

>>12136558
You're the one questioning why I was trying so hard to be polite in bumfuck Georgia.

>>12136568
And just saying you were visiting in-laws would have clarified things. Your original post just made it sound like you cared about being judged by hicks for having had half decent sushi before; being with your wife's family clarifies that you're not just autistic.

Shrimp is not a thing. I think you mean prawns.

>>12132738
Is this your first time ordering seafood, or are you just a fucking retard? Based on pic related, that much variety of seafood in one plate, is going to blend into an indistinguishable leak of flavors. If you want a flavorful seafood dish, there should only be one fucking seafood item on the dish, (ie spaghetti alla vongele, crab bisque, butter poached oysters, beer battered smelts ect)

You're gay.

>>12132921
yes

>>12132738
OP here.
Just mentioning I'm also gay.