So I bought some stuff on sale at the chinatown vegetarian meat place including two frozen vegetarian abalone.
Let me just say if the meat version is as odd as the veg version I don’t know what the attraction may be. The veg version also has algae to give it a slightly fishy, yet unnervingly slimey texture- much like a real abalone I suppose..
Granted, I microwaved it, but I don’t necessarily believe that made things better or worse. Thinly-ish sliced, and it was sort of a quivering-ish sort of gooey splat in a caucasion skin tone that made it seem disturbingly like something someone might find growing progressively larger on their body.until the urgent need for removal set in out of progressively growing fear of a “something wrong” situation.
As. I continue to think about what I’ve just consumed I feel slightly skittish in the tummy area.
I am both attracted and repulsed at what I may find if I google an abalone to see what sort of life form the veg version attempted to mimic with – I suspect – disturbing authenticity from the slime to the soft and gooey-ish texture. Whether or not I ever google this sea-based life form, what I’ve just experienced will never – I fear – be free of my memory.
