Sea cucumbers

[tsap seui]

Alright gang, I desperately need me some help. SWMBO has declared that my lowly status in her Queen dome must locate a source of sea cucumbers before her triumphed return from Chairman Maoland.

 

Sea cucumber? HELP, I shout into this manicured wilderness. I live in a hollar in rural Pennsyltucky. Sea cucumber sounds like a big city food. I may be steerin' the wheel of my rusted out 1952 Studibaker back down to the DC area or at best, to Pittsburgh. And....I need to locate a source of "black chicken" for she who must be obeyed. Do I paint a chicken black, and call it Bob's Yer Uncle, or what?

 

Sea cucumber

Black Chicken

 

Helpth me, I beseachuth thee. I'll gladly pay you the second Tuesday of next week for a sea cucumber and black chicken today.

 

tsap seui

Lost in lala land

[mikeymark]

Alright gang, I desperately need me some help. SWMBO has declared that my lowly status in her Queen dome must locate a source of sea cucumbers before her triumphed return from Chairman Maoland.

 

Sea cucumber? HELP, I shout into this manicured wilderness. I live in a hollar in rural Pennsyltucky. Sea cucumber sounds like a big city food. I may be steerin' the wheel of my rusted out 1952 Studibaker back down to the DC area or at best, to Pittsburgh. And....I need to locate a source of "black chicken" for she who must be obeyed. Do I paint a chicken black, and call it Bob's Yer Uncle, or what?

 

Sea cucumber

Black Chicken

 

Helpth me, I beseachuth thee. I'll gladly pay you the second Tuesday of next week for a sea cucumber and black chicken today.

 

tsap seui

Lost in lala land

No problem...... I did a search on Amazon and there seem to be a few choices. Good luck!

Edited August 7, 2013 by mikeymark (see edit history)

[Mick]

Tsapper, them thar black chikkens can usually be had at most Chinese food stores. Chinese women folk swear by them black hens fer all kinds of female problems. Li et a few of 'em rite after she give birf to our little pride n joy name Saliner. She et a few more afterin' she had that thar historectolotomy and she even fed me one after I had the snip snip done on the old trouser snake.

 

I'll bet one of them thar Chinese wimmin you tawked about that wuz so cold to Wenyan might nose whar you kin git uh black chikken. As fer a sea cucumber, that sounds a mite nasty to me. I'm a wonderin' ifin' it's a plant or some kind uh shell feesh likes uh krab or uh snail -

 

I checked my catalogue of blow up sea creatures, and they a'int got no sea cucumber in thar - and in my book, ifin' you cain't make a likeness of it into an inflatable sex toy, well then, it must not be much good fer anythaing anywaze.....

[tsap seui]

Wenyan likes to take a black chicken to make a soup with when she feels bad. She would typically go to an outdoor market buy a black chicken and have the folks kill it and cut it up for her right there on the spot. As well she would have a shop in her city to ad herbs or whatever to a black chicken to make her some sort of herbal medicine...of course I ain't gonna be able to go to the local Piggly Wiggly and buy a black chicken, or the herbs to go along with it...but we'll be talking to the local Chinese market up in State College, PA about selling us black chicken, or at least telling us where the heck we can buy black chicken.

 

I found this on black chicken

Chinese medicinal cures have been touted for years as some of the best homeopathic remedies ever created. As early as the 13^th century, black chickens were reported in China, and have been used in Chinese medicine for well over 1,000 years. Recently popular in American cuisine, the black chicken is now considered a "superfood".

The theory of "superfood" status for the black chicken is related to the bird's high levels of anti-oxidants. An anti-oxidant is a molecule that slows down the oxidation of other chemicals in the human body. Although oxidation is essential to human life, antioxidants help to keep the process at a healthy level. The specific antioxidant present in black chickens is carnosine.

Carnosine is a substance found in high concentrations in the human brain and muscle tissues. This substance holds many antioxidant properties which are currently being studied for their positive effects in the fields of auditory, speech skills, motor development, and opthamology. The levels of carnosine in a black chicken are two times higher than those in traditional chickens. Carnosine can also be found in turkey as well as supplements offered at vitamin shops and nutrition centers.

Until recently the strange characteristics of the black chicken have rendered it unpopular in European and American cultures. The chicken is born with black bones, meat and skin and is considered a bantam or miniature chicken.

Historically the chicken was eaten as a medicinal cure and is said to have a positive effect on the yin, blood, lungs and stomach. The chicken is most commonly served as a part of a stew or soup cooked with other Chinese medicinal herbs such as wolfberries and ginseng.

The taste of the black chicken is thought by some to be sweeter than that of traditional chicken, while others claim they taste no difference at all. The black chicken can be cooked is all the same fashions as the traditional chicken, but some believe the coarser texture of the meat leads toward stewing of the black chicken meat more frequently than other cooking methods.

The black chicken is certainly the new kid on the block in the "superfood" market. Its small size and unappealing looks will undoubtedly deter some consumers from purchasing the product, but with plans to increase the size of the chicken through interbreeding, we will surely see this Chinese medicinal secret in mass distribution in no time.

[tsap seui]

Still looking for this here sea cucumber critter. I found this lil' blurb

 

A marine animal named for its cucumber-like shape, with short tentacles at one end. Not readily available fresh in the United States, but available dried in Asian markets. Dried sea cucumber must be soaked in water a minimum of 24 hours, and will double in size and take on a gelatinous quality. It's rather rubbery and is most often used in soups.

I'll probably pass on the sea cucumber and stick with the cat heads and rice section of the home menu, better yet, give me the fillet of Rin Tin Tin, or Lassie rump roast. I don't do well with rubber on my palate. Calamari and me didn't like each other in Australia, too much like rubber chicken fer me, made me feel like I was back in Vegas.

 

tsap seui

[RobertH]

I use to catch Sea Cucumbers and Crabs to sell to Chinese Restaurants when I was going to dive school. They would pay allot for a fresh live one.

[Randy W]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Conspicuous_Sea_Cucumber%2C_Coconut_Island%2C_Hawaii.JPG/800px-Conspicuous_Sea_Cucumber%2C_Coconut_Island%2C_Hawaii.JPG

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumber

[Mick]

After seein' that pitcher - I'm mighty glad they don't make an inflatable model. Seriously, they used to eat a lot of these critters down in the Chao Shan region of Guangdong where we lived. Sometimes referred to as "sea worm," I once was fed one without knowing what it was. It sure doesn't look much like a cucumber to me....

[tsap seui]

I don't care how big ya blowed them critters up Mick, I ain't having sex with one of them. A man's got to have his limits, and while my limits may be out past the twilight zone somewhare. That critter in Randy's pitcher shows me my limit, son. No sir, my career of debauchery to blow up critters ain't ah goin' in THAT direction.

 

Now then, on the utter hand, if'n them muggly lookin' sea cucmbers is what puts the spark in my wife's fire, an afro-desiace like clams is supposed to be, then Imma gonna buy her a truck load!!!

 

It's lookin' like I can buy dried sea cucumbers online possibly. I think Wenyan wants to make some sorta herbal medicine out of them. And you can buy pills that have whatever it is in sea cucmbers that the Chinese likes. Either way, when the dynamic duo returns in 3 weeks, 4 days, 9 hours, and 30 minutes our first trip after a nights rest in our skirt flappin' mansion on wheels is gonna be up yonder to the home of Penn State and we is gonna have a talk with the folks in the Chinese food store there about this here sea cucumber and his buddy, the black chicken. Most rickey ricardo tic, I tells ya. I'll pull the tank...er ah...1957 Caddy out of the barn and let Wenyan drive it up there with me beside her. I only hope she don't knock no fins offa the dern thang, I feel safe with 800 pounds of American steel up front in the bumper, but them fins can gets dicey.

 

tsap seui

[credzba]

You and Mick are so self absorbed with your blow-up animals.

Consider your wives, they watch you two and are jealous of the critters.

 

This "cucumber" is for THEM not you !

[george lee]

tsap,

 

you can try Chinatown's stores in Philadelphia or come down to nyc's Chinatowns. good luck.

[tsap seui]

Thanks George. I'll drive the 4 or 5 hours to NYC and deal with the traffic there if I must, hopefully the small Chinese food shop up in State College here will have or get what the little dear is looking for.

 

In early Sepember I can assure you we will be at that food shop, begging, bribery, paying through the sea urchin, what ever it takes for them to procure sea cucumbers and black chicken...lol

 

tsap seui

[dnoblett]

From your neck of the woods I would be trying Asian Groceries in Harrisburg PA or perhaps up in Rochester NY

 

There are several Asian groceries I know of in Rochester though I don't know if they have the Sea cucumber.

 

http://www.asianfoodmarketrochester.com/rochester-ny-live-and-fresh-seafood.htm

 

Give them a call and ask, and if they do, and you want to do lunch give me a ring.

[Mick]

You and Mick are so self absorbed with your blow-up animals.

Consider your wives, they watch you two and are jealous of the critters.

 

This "cucumber" is for THEM not you !

Well I'll be dipped in dog doo - you gots a point thar credzber - from the shape of that cucumber, it must be fer wimmin folk - that is- ifin' they makes uh blow up variety. Or worse, ifin' they a'int fer wimmin folk, and they is shaped like that thar sea cucumber, lordy - then they might be fer -

[chilton747]

 

You and Mick are so self absorbed with your blow-up animals.

Consider your wives, they watch you two and are jealous of the critters.

 

This "cucumber" is for THEM not you !

Well I'll be dipped in dog doo - you gots a point thar credzber - from the shape of that cucumber, it must be fer wimmin folk - that is- ifin' they makes uh blow up variety. Or worse, ifin' they a'int fer wimmin folk, and they is shaped like that thar sea cucumber, lordy - then they might be fer -

 

Yeah if you ask me, this live cucumber looks like diao food to me.