It's not always that we have a low tide sea in this part of our place. It's not deep most of the time but it's not walkable. However, today I just finished eating alone with the viand food sea urchins. I'm not sure if you're familiar with this type of creature under the sea. I don't know how to call it yours or if you have this kind of creature. The name is sea urchin but in our own language. There are a lot of names that it's hard to specify in one creature.
Another type of sea urchins but there are many types of it.
Anyway, you can see in the photo what these sea urchins are. It's like a stone that can get easily. If you see it under the sea you will think it's a flower. The thorns are moving like it's being blown by a wind. I know you will love it if you see it in person under the sea. For sure you will be amazed by its colors and the appearance itself.
So we Filipinos always eat rice in our meals. That's our basic food but it depends on some if they don't eat it because they're on a diet. Aside from rice as the primary food we eat. We have another food served as a pair of rice dishes. We call it a viand food that pairs the rice food we always eat with every meal.
Since we are always into rice food. It's hard for us to eat this type of food without rice. That's why I brought rice to go to the sea. I also brought a knife where it could be used in cutting the sea urchins in half. I couldn't use my bare hands in removing its flesh where the one could be eaten. To make the sea urchins more delicious I needed to add vinegar. It's like a sauce of a barbecue or a gravy when eating fried chicken. Okay, let's make it shorter, to add spice.
What you will be seeing inside was the flesh of the sea urchins. As I've said earlier, the flesh was edible. The image above was cut in half already. Now, in the next image will be the sea urchins when it was cut.
In eating it, you need to remove those different colors. We called it intestine but actually they were just sand. I can tell because that's what I felt when I touched it.
After I removed the intestine this is how it looks. It's time to remove its flesh from the shell of sea urchins. Place it in the spoon and dip it into the vinegar. Either you will place it in the rice to eat it up or eat it right away and then eat the rice next to it.
It's up to you to decide but I suggest eating right away the flesh of sea urchins and rice later. You can feel how delicious it is by eating that way. Just be careful when eating because the thorns have flowers like that. It can be itchy or it will give you pain. Even me, an adult, could tell it's painful.
Thanks to it I no longer need to buy viand food to eat for dinner.
Thank you for reading
images are mine
d' dreamboy,
