Did anyone love to eat sea foods? Did you know that ocean have an exotic food as well. How you will define exotic foods? For me its a thing that suppsedly not to be eaten but people eat it. Just making my own meaning. Well, exotic are those foods that are no usually served othe table.
Last week i visited the place of Elihan. Its a place where fishing is the main source of income by the locals. Touncan find fresh fishes for your meals and you can find people who eating exotic foods and in ate as well.
Sea Urchin,Suwaki or Tirik
Do you believe in me if i told you that these creature can be eaten alive? Maybe you will not agree because of its scary looks. This little species is covered with sharp pines as their protection agaist predator. They are the sea urchin, but this one has edible meat. People called it Suwaki or tirik in their cebuano and hiligaynon dialect. This thing can be eaten alive...and in ate not just once but many times already.
They Chopped it
The process of eating this creature is a little bit scary, you must be very careful because of it dharp pines. It needs the right process before you can it it. First you need to chopped ot and devide into two to expose its meat and inner parts. Second you have to dhake it off to remove the intestines and its stocked goods and the remaining things will be their eggs or considered as their meatbthat is edible.
They collect the edible part
What you can see inside the bowl is the edible part of that sea urchin. Those amount are collected from more than 20 sea urchin. It needs more sea urchin to collect their meat to sustain the whole meals. That people are actually selling it. What will happen tobthe sea urchin after removing its inmer parts? They will be dead. Since it seasonal, there are times that they are spreading all over the sea and they need to be minimized and remove from their place. After the long process of taking out the edible parts of dea urchin, you can eat it right away without cooking it. Yes, it taste like different but good. Its like a food mixed with seasoning, the combination of salt and sweets.