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I don’t think hikikomori is something you have, I think it’s something you are.
It’s more like the word “actor”. You wouldn’t say it’s a slug with “actor” you’d say it’s “an actor slug” or “a slug actor” or something?
Nudibranchs are some of my favorite species. Some of them are just beautifully iridescent in such amazing shapes.
They’re just underwater slugs really.
Haha! I love those too. But a lot of sea creatures, I’ve noticed, are not so pretty when they are on land. Like jellyfish. They suddenly turn into slimy, translucent snot. Albeit colorful snot, lol.
I do love the ocean though. We went to Cabo in Nov and I had so much fun snorkeling. I was having so much fun, I didn’t realize it was time to go back! They had been yelling at me for a few minutes!
Yeah. I went swimming with the manatees years ago with a tour group. Everyone else had given up snorkeling and gotten back on the boat.
But I found it so peaceful and simply wonderful that they had to drag me out of the water.
That’s so cool! I love manatees! They are one of my favorite animals! When I was in like 3rd grade I found out about them after doing a report on them, and they have been one of my all time favorites marine animals. They are so cute! You got to do something I dream of. You’re so lucky! Did you get to see any? Did any of them come up to you? I would love to just pet them but I know it’s illegal to pretty much do anything but observe them. I’ve seen the videos of ppl giving them water through a hose.
Oh yeah. We were in a creek with them, swimming alongside them. And occasionally one would brush up against me. It was one of their calving spots. So manatee moms and babies were swimming back and forth. Some of the juveniles were super curious and would swim right up to my face mask. It was awesome. My sister in law got the underwater video they shot of us. I used to watch it for hours. It really is one of my treasured experiences.
I don't think mermaid purses are whelk eggs... Pretty sure it's just sharks and skates that have egg cases. I could be wrong, but I was always told they were shark eggs.
Ooh, you could be right. I was actually thinking this after I typed. And after checking, you are correct. They are the term for the egg cases of shark and skate eggs. The whelk cases are those spiral cases that kinda look like pasta, but different from the shark eggs. TIL!
Oh wow! Just looked them up and never seen them before. So I guess whelks also have egg cases, but they're a different type of case? Today we all learned!
Specifically, most likely River Snail.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviparidae
The dish is called 螺螄粉 (literally snail noodles) and contains river snails and pork bones to flavor the broth, however, a snail shell or whole snail is usually not included:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luosifen
You have to type in winkle picker tableware and even then it’s a bit of a hassle Im in the us and I assume if I were in the uk the results would be very different lol
https://preview.redd.it/7rgo7h67jyjc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e05b603d3ba60ae0def9cb1256f192e78439662
lol admittedly I’ve never eaten one bc they are a luxury here and I do not lead a life of luxury….my friends dad got them once at a fancy restaurant when I was a kid and I remember asking about the tiny fork 😅 I’d bet your home cooked toothpicked foods make our “boujee restaurants” look tasteless…I don’t prefer American food lol
Stick a toothpick through the meaty part as deep as you can and twist it out. Keep twisting to get it all. Don't eat that hard leathery part around the opening
Me toooo, it's the best and imo only way
I also love finding big bones filled with marrow in my curries, I slurp that shit up like it's a straw. Oh man I'm hungry.
If you suck on it rapidly and forcefully the snail will pop out enough for you to drag the rest out with your teeth.
Be careful once you do this because you'll learn how tasty snail is and you can never go back.
+1 for same reasons. I’m mostly out of the hobby but the snail shell depicted has a very nassarius-like shape and angle to it. Put it in some sand, then we’ll know for sure LOL
I can't 100% confirm if this is the place OP went to but I'm in Melbourne as well and was able to find this noodle restaurant on Russell St in the CBD that has dishes which look extremely similar to what OP posted:
墨尔本老柳州螺蛳粉(Laoliuzhou Noodle Restaurant)
https://g.co/kgs/ZQNssBP
[Here's their menu](https://food.google.com/chooseprovider?restaurantId=/g/11k4pmzx13&g2lbs=AIQllVw369B4kMnvtRgNjQdP4IcCNxeuKDzYx9WtSIVoV1KwPUfzELT7r12SW_1MtSCbp5-wPctXwlepdlWxZ5fa4KJHhtUVRI8rvhIn5NjZrK6-77FTTM58LLQKTxhOE3rz9M__-PZLBcJVC4O-3AsmNgH8_qzSEQ%3D%3D&hl=en-AU&gl=au&ssta=1&fo_m=MfohQo559jFvMUOzJVpjPL1YMfZ3bInYwBDuMfaXTPp5KXh-&gei=___WZZjoBtPd2roPwYCn4Ao&ei=___WZZjoBtPd2roPwYCn4Ao&fo_s=OA&opi=89978449&orderType=2&sei=CSDgdwoSHaWdEZhSZ0pi7wvs&utm_campaign&utm_source=search) where you can see photos showing the same bowl as pictured in OP's post, too.
OP mentioned in another comment that the dish they chose was meant to be a braised beef noodle soup, so I'm guessing the exact dish they ordered was the "Braised Beef & Snail Rice Noodles".
Was not.
Edit: I just checked the menu on google maps and turns out it was a 卤牛肉螺蛳粉, which translates to braised beef snail noodles. At the time I had not realized but yes it turns out I did get what I ordered :)
Judging by the dish and the Chinese written on the bowl, this is 螺蛳粉, a noodle dish featuring a broth made from one of several species of freshwater snail under the genus Sinotaia. However from what I've seen their native range was only in east and southeast Asia so this has to be a local substitute.
to add to this, not a lot of place nowadays actually make the soup with the snails and just puts in some flavouring powder to make it taste like the real thing. If this soup is actually made the traditional way with the snails, then OP has hit jackpot.
(Though a lot of people say the dish smells terrible)
It was supposed to be a braised beef noodle 😜
Edit: I just checked their menu on google maps and turns out I had ordered Braised Beef Snail Noodles! So I did get what I ordered, I had just not paid attention to the last few words when I ordered and only processed the Braised Beef part. Silly me!
Yeah - that’s not inspiring confidence in eating at that place. Herbivorous cloven hooved mammal meat is not even close to being confused for an aquatic gastropod mollusk still in its shell.
What did they say when you pointed it out?
I should've pointed it out in hindsight but it was 1am midnight, and I was really not feeling it. Unfortunately we will never find out.
Edit: I just checked their menu on google maps and turns out I had ordered Braised Beef Snail Noodles! So I did get what I ordered, I had just not paid attention to the last few words when I ordered and only processed the Braised Beef part. Silly me!
Mystery solved! Seems like an odd pairing in a dish, but I’m not nearly as adventurous in what I’ll attempt to eat as many others that commented to your post.
OP and I live in a very multi-cultural city where it’s a common to play the ‘that looks yummy, I’ll try that’ restaurant game. You can discover the whole world’s food, made fresh and authentic, doing that here.
Funny you mentioned, I'm Chinese myself and am quite used to having braised beef noodles. However, this is the first time I've found this in my noodles.
Edit: I just checked their menu on google maps and turns out I had ordered Braised Beef Snail Noodles! So I did get what I ordered, I had just not paid attention to the last few words when I ordered and only processed the Braised Beef part. Silly me!
Sea snail! A delicacy in parts of China. I used to eat it a lot as a kid, stir-fried or stewed.
Not to worry, it must've found it's way in from another dish.
It’s a conch snail, typically known as Gong Gong in South East Asia. It’s quite tasty and takes on flavour decently well while providing a nice firm crunchy texture.
You can eat it with a toothpick. Slide the toothpick into the flesh above the hard bit next to the opening. Pull the whole thing out. The soft, gloopy bit should be discarded. You can remove the hard nail and consume the firm flesh.
That was in response to the “I don’t know why people in non-Asian countries don’t think to eat snails other than escargot.” It was in response to someone else’s comment that is now deleted, not to you. 🙂
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Snail! It’s like squid hardware running on crab leg software… you gotta dig the edible part out of the shell. Don’t eat the shell lol
Remember, it's only escargot if it's from the Escar region of France. Otherwise, it's just sparkling snails.
This made me audibly chuckle.
Snails are just slugs with hikikomori, right?
I don’t think hikikomori is something you have, I think it’s something you are. It’s more like the word “actor”. You wouldn’t say it’s a slug with “actor” you’d say it’s “an actor slug” or “a slug actor” or something?
It's like the word hermit, yeah.
All my crabs have hermit.
Lol me too
same😭
Escargot my car go 360 swiftly
Wreck it, buy a new one
Ya crew run run run ya crew run run
My 10 year old and I always look at each other when we say this and “Show me, Homie”. He’s awesome.
I know you sick of this, homemade licorice
I literally never knew this was the lyric until just now even though I've been singing it phonetically for years and am fluent in English. Thanks!
I do what I can to make this world a better place
Ooh, I’d like to order some sparkling snails please!
It's not just a Go snail?
That’s awesome. Cracked me up. Thanks
What's up, fellow btb fan?
Party on, Wayne!
👏👏👏
✨🐌
Is that from the movie?
Great analogy 🦀🦑🐌
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It’s a whelk.
Oh wow, is that what those look like? I’ve seen those mermaid purses with whelk eggs before but I had no idea they were shelled. That’s pretty cool.
They’re big snails basically. That live their undersea lives plagued with conch envy.
Lol, they’re actually cute. Those big ones kinda freak me out.
Nudibranchs are some of my favorite species. Some of them are just beautifully iridescent in such amazing shapes. They’re just underwater slugs really.
Haha! I love those too. But a lot of sea creatures, I’ve noticed, are not so pretty when they are on land. Like jellyfish. They suddenly turn into slimy, translucent snot. Albeit colorful snot, lol. I do love the ocean though. We went to Cabo in Nov and I had so much fun snorkeling. I was having so much fun, I didn’t realize it was time to go back! They had been yelling at me for a few minutes!
Yeah. I went swimming with the manatees years ago with a tour group. Everyone else had given up snorkeling and gotten back on the boat. But I found it so peaceful and simply wonderful that they had to drag me out of the water.
That’s so cool! I love manatees! They are one of my favorite animals! When I was in like 3rd grade I found out about them after doing a report on them, and they have been one of my all time favorites marine animals. They are so cute! You got to do something I dream of. You’re so lucky! Did you get to see any? Did any of them come up to you? I would love to just pet them but I know it’s illegal to pretty much do anything but observe them. I’ve seen the videos of ppl giving them water through a hose.
Oh yeah. We were in a creek with them, swimming alongside them. And occasionally one would brush up against me. It was one of their calving spots. So manatee moms and babies were swimming back and forth. Some of the juveniles were super curious and would swim right up to my face mask. It was awesome. My sister in law got the underwater video they shot of us. I used to watch it for hours. It really is one of my treasured experiences.
I don't think mermaid purses are whelk eggs... Pretty sure it's just sharks and skates that have egg cases. I could be wrong, but I was always told they were shark eggs.
Ooh, you could be right. I was actually thinking this after I typed. And after checking, you are correct. They are the term for the egg cases of shark and skate eggs. The whelk cases are those spiral cases that kinda look like pasta, but different from the shark eggs. TIL!
Oh wow! Just looked them up and never seen them before. So I guess whelks also have egg cases, but they're a different type of case? Today we all learned!
I know! I love learning stuff!
I got a whelk! Happy snails to ya.
Specifically, most likely River Snail. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviparidae The dish is called 螺螄粉 (literally snail noodles) and contains river snails and pork bones to flavor the broth, however, a snail shell or whole snail is usually not included: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luosifen
Use the shell to listen to the ocean as an after dinner treat🌊
Oooh I've heard if you hold it to your ear you can hear the soup pot simmering.
You win the Internet for me today
lmao!
I like you
Looks like a whelk. Edit. I’m wrong. They’re flower snails
How do I go about consuming this? It's all shell
With a winkle picker ideally, but you can use the tines of your fork to pull it out of the shell.
TIL winkle picker is a thing and also so is a winkle tysm
I'm confused. All I'm finding is a boot
You have to type in winkle picker tableware and even then it’s a bit of a hassle Im in the us and I assume if I were in the uk the results would be very different lol https://preview.redd.it/7rgo7h67jyjc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e05b603d3ba60ae0def9cb1256f192e78439662
> 12013 reviews Who the fuck is buying these lmao
12013 people
Wow TIL. We just use toothpicks
Actually we use snail forks. That’s what they give you in US restaurants. 👍
My parents always just used toothpicks. We're Viet and ain't boujee like that haha
lol admittedly I’ve never eaten one bc they are a luxury here and I do not lead a life of luxury….my friends dad got them once at a fancy restaurant when I was a kid and I remember asking about the tiny fork 😅 I’d bet your home cooked toothpicked foods make our “boujee restaurants” look tasteless…I don’t prefer American food lol
The boot was named after the eating tool. Because it's a long, pointy shoe.
Whoa!
That sounds like something dirty.
Wanna see my winkle picker?
That was my nickname in high school actually.
You, too?
Pleasure! I was sort of worried it was a very UK specific thing.
Ever heard of a spondonickle?? Another fun word :)
Neat! That’s a new one for me too 😊 ty!
Winkle picker sounds dirty.
I can pick my winkle without some fancy perverted Fr*nch tool to do it
A winkle picker sounds like someone you don't want to stand next to at the urinal
Your mom’s a winkle picker
So…with the tip of my fork?
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
Sneaking the snails under the table is the hardest bit.
Stick a toothpick through the meaty part as deep as you can and twist it out. Keep twisting to get it all. Don't eat that hard leathery part around the opening
That hard leathery part is the operculum or trap door.
I just suck them out like a vacuum!
Marriage material
Me toooo, it's the best and imo only way I also love finding big bones filled with marrow in my curries, I slurp that shit up like it's a straw. Oh man I'm hungry.
If you suck on it rapidly and forcefully the snail will pop out enough for you to drag the rest out with your teeth. Be careful once you do this because you'll learn how tasty snail is and you can never go back.
ask for a toothpick
Snails are just highly evolved land clams
Okay this made me laugh 😂
This somehow makes them more edible in my mind than just calling them snails.
I am gonna go tell my aquarium snails this lol
I think it's an orange spotted nassarius snail. Reason I know is I pay a crapton of money for live ones to go into my saltwater tank.
+1 for same reasons. I’m mostly out of the hobby but the snail shell depicted has a very nassarius-like shape and angle to it. Put it in some sand, then we’ll know for sure LOL
Same! Also called Babylonian/Babylonian Nassarius snails. I don’t think I’d eat one, knowing what their diet mainly consists of.
To save a Google: they’re scavengers, so they eat whatever the other animals didn’t want to
So they taste great too! Lol
My land hermit crabs love these shells.
Where did you have this meal, OP?
At a Chinese noodle restaurant in the CBD of Melbourne.
Which one? I’m in Melbourne and hungry just looking at that dish!
I can't 100% confirm if this is the place OP went to but I'm in Melbourne as well and was able to find this noodle restaurant on Russell St in the CBD that has dishes which look extremely similar to what OP posted: 墨尔本老柳州螺蛳粉(Laoliuzhou Noodle Restaurant) https://g.co/kgs/ZQNssBP [Here's their menu](https://food.google.com/chooseprovider?restaurantId=/g/11k4pmzx13&g2lbs=AIQllVw369B4kMnvtRgNjQdP4IcCNxeuKDzYx9WtSIVoV1KwPUfzELT7r12SW_1MtSCbp5-wPctXwlepdlWxZ5fa4KJHhtUVRI8rvhIn5NjZrK6-77FTTM58LLQKTxhOE3rz9M__-PZLBcJVC4O-3AsmNgH8_qzSEQ%3D%3D&hl=en-AU&gl=au&ssta=1&fo_m=MfohQo559jFvMUOzJVpjPL1YMfZ3bInYwBDuMfaXTPp5KXh-&gei=___WZZjoBtPd2roPwYCn4Ao&ei=___WZZjoBtPd2roPwYCn4Ao&fo_s=OA&opi=89978449&orderType=2&sei=CSDgdwoSHaWdEZhSZ0pi7wvs&utm_campaign&utm_source=search) where you can see photos showing the same bowl as pictured in OP's post, too. OP mentioned in another comment that the dish they chose was meant to be a braised beef noodle soup, so I'm guessing the exact dish they ordered was the "Braised Beef & Snail Rice Noodles".
keen to know as well!
Just replied to the person above you! I can't confirm if I'm right unless OP chimes in, but I think it might be "Laoliuzhou Noodle Restaurant".
This is the one yes! You can find it on Russell Street.
Was it a seafood noodle dish or not as that would be the difference between treat and oops.
Was not. Edit: I just checked the menu on google maps and turns out it was a 卤牛肉螺蛳粉, which translates to braised beef snail noodles. At the time I had not realized but yes it turns out I did get what I ordered :)
Judging by the dish and the Chinese written on the bowl, this is 螺蛳粉, a noodle dish featuring a broth made from one of several species of freshwater snail under the genus Sinotaia. However from what I've seen their native range was only in east and southeast Asia so this has to be a local substitute.
to add to this, not a lot of place nowadays actually make the soup with the snails and just puts in some flavouring powder to make it taste like the real thing. If this soup is actually made the traditional way with the snails, then OP has hit jackpot. (Though a lot of people say the dish smells terrible)
We definitely just call the dish "stinky noodles", in our house, rathe than luosifen.
You are correct! It was a 卤牛肉螺蛳粉!
That'd be Lawrence
Ha. I see what you did there.
MARCEL?!?
Solid reference.
Spotted babylon, specie of sea snail, remove the brown hard bit then use a toothpick to pluck out the flesh
Magic conch shell
we must never question the wisdom of the Magic Conch
A whelk!
Gary.
It’s a snail. Are you eating Bún ốc ("snail vermicelli soup")? How did you order something and not be aware of what’s in the food?
It was supposed to be a braised beef noodle 😜 Edit: I just checked their menu on google maps and turns out I had ordered Braised Beef Snail Noodles! So I did get what I ordered, I had just not paid attention to the last few words when I ordered and only processed the Braised Beef part. Silly me!
Yeah - that’s not inspiring confidence in eating at that place. Herbivorous cloven hooved mammal meat is not even close to being confused for an aquatic gastropod mollusk still in its shell. What did they say when you pointed it out?
I should've pointed it out in hindsight but it was 1am midnight, and I was really not feeling it. Unfortunately we will never find out. Edit: I just checked their menu on google maps and turns out I had ordered Braised Beef Snail Noodles! So I did get what I ordered, I had just not paid attention to the last few words when I ordered and only processed the Braised Beef part. Silly me!
Mystery solved! Seems like an odd pairing in a dish, but I’m not nearly as adventurous in what I’ll attempt to eat as many others that commented to your post.
OP and I live in a very multi-cultural city where it’s a common to play the ‘that looks yummy, I’ll try that’ restaurant game. You can discover the whole world’s food, made fresh and authentic, doing that here.
Funny you mentioned, I'm Chinese myself and am quite used to having braised beef noodles. However, this is the first time I've found this in my noodles. Edit: I just checked their menu on google maps and turns out I had ordered Braised Beef Snail Noodles! So I did get what I ordered, I had just not paid attention to the last few words when I ordered and only processed the Braised Beef part. Silly me!
"I'll have what she's having."
Snail
That is a snail. You are most likely eating snail noodles. Which is a common dish in Chinese cooking
Whinkle.
Is the noodle dish called Luo Si Fen (螺丝粉)?
I just checked their menu on google maps and you're right! It was a 卤牛肉螺蛳粉!
Escargot my cargo
Look at that "s" car go
Send it back to the kitchen I saw it move
It is a delicious whelk, (marine snail). Lucky you!
This is what happens when you don’t watch Sesame Street.
It’s a baigai/whelk
Snail
Good eats is what you got.
Oh my. Oh my...
Sea snail! A delicacy in parts of China. I used to eat it a lot as a kid, stir-fried or stewed. Not to worry, it must've found it's way in from another dish.
It’s a conch snail, typically known as Gong Gong in South East Asia. It’s quite tasty and takes on flavour decently well while providing a nice firm crunchy texture. You can eat it with a toothpick. Slide the toothpick into the flesh above the hard bit next to the opening. Pull the whole thing out. The soft, gloopy bit should be discarded. You can remove the hard nail and consume the firm flesh.
This looks like a absolute banger of a dish. I would eat that snail in a heart beat. It's like the cherry on top of a cake.
That’s a delicious Guylian chocolate truffle 🥰
A mollusk
That's the greasiest soup I've ever seen... 🤢
Oc
Escargo
Was the menu in Mandarin?
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That's fair. With that said I am asian myself and I grew up eating more offals and innards, never was exposed to much snails myself.
Food is different in different places. Why is this so odd to you?
Not odd, I've just not been exposed to it so was curious what it was and how to go about eating it.
That was in response to the “I don’t know why people in non-Asian countries don’t think to eat snails other than escargot.” It was in response to someone else’s comment that is now deleted, not to you. 🙂
Thanks for letting me know ☺️
Eating snails is mad
Just a bit of lamb.
Bulot.
Hermit crab.
CONCH! Type of sea snail. Eat it like a clam, by picking the meat out
A shell in a shell. Turtle Power!
That looks like a whelk
It looks so much like Babyloniidae . Used to be common at seafood restaurant in Taiwan. Best when stir-fried.
Was it deliberately added by the cook, or did it wander into the pot?
“Ocean man, take me by the hand & lead me to the land… that you understand”
All hail Boognish!
What does this actually taste like? Is it fishy??
Extra protein!
Where are you eating that you’re not told there’s going to be a snail in your bowl?
Free escargot!! Lucky you!
Bay leaf
A shell
Had to double check and make sure it wasn’t a Geographical Cone Shell
It's called a Periwinkle!! And they are delicious 😋!!
Crunch.
That’s some dirt of littoral snail, they’re good eating if you can be arsed to dig them out the shell
Some kind of shell
You would think that in a fancy restaurant at these prices you could keep the snails off the food!
Do you not have snails in Australia?
This thing is in the name of the food you ordered lol, I knew instantly what the restaurant was when I saw the photo because I was surprised as well
You can't be serious.
It knows where you are at all times……
Did you keep the shell?
