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[LavCat]

You want salty try jellyfish/octopus maki(sushi? Not sure) Spicy AND salty. Plus locally, a lot of sun-dried seafood(seahorses, fish, shrimp) is available. THOSE are salty, especially if deep-fried(I hide far from my grandmother's kitchen when she starts)

You hijacked the thread from viscera to cephalopods!

When my son was little his good friend was someone who had moved here from China. The friend described his mother's cooking to me as "burnt wok food," but my son enjoyed it and developed a taste for several creatures unaccustomed to most western children.

The friend and his sister were avowed Iberiophiles, to possibly coin a word, so much so that the sister spent an exchange student year in Spain. I am very fond of Paella, which is a Spanish seafood, rice, and whatever else dish (traditionally I think donkey), prepared with lots of saffron. I have not made it much in years, but in addition to cephalopods I would use crustacea, univalves and bivalves, trying for nice color combinations.

Eel I like in moderation, but it is salty and I gather difficult to prepare. The recipe I have begins "Nail the head to a door..."

I draw the line at jellyfish.

One day I looked out the window to see the children chasing down a baby bunny. I walked outside and enquired what it was that they were doing? Whatever the truth I was told that they wanted it for Paella. The bunny, though, was a bit too fast for them.

(My son is a member of the lounge, but he does not post much, and fortunately I don't think he has the attention span to read this far into a thread.)