Abalone abalone abalone...

Read from some forums that decades ago, local Aussies feed their cat with abalone, wondering what they can do with this kind of sucking creatures. And heard from some older generation friends they used to buy dozens of live abalones home during a visit to Australia.

Nowadays, it's the fengshui turning the other way round as Chinese started to penetrate the Aussie lifestyle. This is what it is now in the Sydney Fish market.



Selling for AUD4.90 per piece is the Greenlip Abalone, and it's frozen, not a fresh lively products. Looks ugly? Yeah, grandma was surprised as well how come the treasured abalone has shell? errr... to spoil your appetite even further, it's similar to a snail in the sea, and the part that we consumed is always sucking to some rocks. It's pretty difficult to shuck-off the flesh from the shell. On the other side of the market, we have live abalone, selling probably AUD40-60 per kg.

Hehe... Not interesting enuf. Here's some that you might have heard, but never got a chance to see, it's the huge live abalone (of coz a different species than the above), in a local Chinese restaurant, where I dare not ask for the price. Hmmm... Don't disturb me, I am summoning it while spelling "Accio abalone..." Yummy yummy.