Went out to a fancy sushi spot tonight. Got to try uni (sea urchin) for the first time. Two uni gunkans were $22+tx.
I would compare it to sucking the green skum off the bottom of a rock out of a tidal pool at low tide down stream from the wastewater treatment plant. It was like picking up an abused star fish out of the touch tank at the aquarium, putting it in my mouth, and having it shit itself in fear of being eaten. I bet there's barnacles underneath the pier at coney island that have been feasting on the vomit of tourists who had too many fried clams before riding the roller coaster that taste better than this overpriced orange abomination. You would think that a restaurant with uni in the name would deliver something that deserves praise, but I was sorely mistaken.
Does all Uni taste like this? What is uni actually supposed to taste like? Is this like a cilantro situation and I have the wrong number of chromosomes to taste it "correctly?" Help me find uni that doesn't make me gag.
by -irregardless