attn: mia, toby, any other ocean creature people

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they are selling a new animal in Chinatown as a food item, and I'm not quite sure what it is.

it looks like a flattish lobster tail, a bit longer, and instead of a lobster body/head it seems to just end, and have a chitinous plate where the "head" should be, with two dark spots that might be fake eyes or real light-sensing patches. I don't think it has big claws or anything, and it seems to have legs on its underside. in other words, it looks like a cross between a gigantic shrimp and a small, flat lobster.

vas is?

 

[xfer]

maybe a mantis shrimp?

looks kind of like that.

 

[mindspell]

How big are we talking about? Because I ate shrimps that were almost a foot long. Something like 3-4 inches long? how wide?

I know I have had a Chilean shrimp-lobster-ich cross that was red and purple while uncooked that just blew my mind in terms of taste. I wish I could remember its name.

 

[xfer]

at least 8 inches long and 3 inches wide.

these things were not colourful at all--drab grey/brown. similar in color to the mantis shrimp I posted above (although Google images for mantis shrimps are mostly very colourful).

 

[FuSoYa]

alex, perhaps a slipper lobster:

 

[xfer]

are those amazing white clawless lobsters of josh seipp posting fame a variety of slipper lobster?

good guess but they look more like the thing I posted and less like the thing you did--not as sturdy/blocky.

I went back today to maybe take a cellphone pic and all three fish markets near my school had NONE!

 

[Astral Poetry]

i smell a conspiracy by the asian fish market!

 

[xfer]

I smell a lot of things by the Chinatown fish market.

Not all fish.

 

[azal]

you know there are two things that smell like fish...

and one of them is fish.

 

[garmonbosia]

Hey, might anyone happen to know what this is?

 

[Helm]

This is awesome.

 

[xfer]

dinner!

 

[FuSoYa]

do you think that thing is connected to a gigantic other thing beneath the ground?

 

[AndICried]

Hey, might anyone happen to know what this is?

Dune meets LOZ:OOT

 

[garmonbosia]

do you think that thing is connected to a gigantic other thing beneath the ground?

I'm picturing some sort of horrible throbbing mass.

 

[0sm0se]

Like mass of unmutated tissue you have to constantly fight in different forms in Resident Evil II? And that this is just one of its protrusions?

 

[CladInDarkness]

This is awesome.

Yes. :Spin:

 

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they weren't around last year, but the mantis shrimp are BACK! wriggling in their tanks!

I wanna buy and cook some tomorrow.