Sea Urchin/Uni
The sea urchin is one of the more unusual flavours to a western pallet that is found in sushi restaurants. It is prepared by carefully cracking open the top of the urchins outer shell. The orange brown meat that is served in sushi are the urchin's ovaries. The rest of the animal is inedible. The taste of sea urchin is rather difficult to describe. My personal response when first tasting it was “It tastes like the sea!” It has a slightly alkaline taste that some people may dislike.
In Japanese cooking sea urchin is only eaten raw as cannot withstand cooking.
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