Karasumi is Japanese dried fish roe ... Place the clams on two dinner plates, or four appetiser plates. Arrange the sea urchin (uni) pieces on the clams. Use a fine-tooth rasp-type grater to ...

Considered a delicacy in several parts of the world, sea urchin, or uni in Japanese, is prized for its unique flavor. But the cost of the gonads — the orange tongues found inside an urchin ...

Inside the spiky test are five corals of roe, sometimes called tongues—the sea urchin’s wobbly gonads ... if not an aphrodisiac. The Japanese exchange urchins as gifts during New Year ...

Pride of Sea Urchin Catchers A specialty of the Sea of Okhotsk that's especially delicious during the drift ice season is sea urchins. In the beginning of February, the sea is finally calm.

The only place in the world where it can be found growing naturally is along Japanese mountain streams ... The farmers have to make enough food to feed all 150,000 baby eels.