Noodles and Rice

Sweet ebi sashimi

by Tom on February 27th, 2008

I recently tried something that I didn’t even know existed.  Japanese people call it sweet prawn (ebi) and it is simply extremely fresh raw prawns that are loaded with prawn eggs.  The eggs are the grey stuff that you can barely see around the legs of the prawn in the photo.  The deal is that you suck out the eggs and then shell and eat the prawn.  Philosophically I am not sure how I stand with eating two generations at once, but my taste buds tell me that it will be OK.

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