Post by fortnightlily on Aug 3, 2015 12:52:19 GMT -5
Brought to you by lunchtime musings. I don't like eating the tail/shell. But when it's shrimp tempura it's an even more annoying amount of work to avoid it.
If the tail meat comes out of the shell, I'll eat that. But who eats the shell itself?
Yeah, but then why do so many places serve it with just the tail part of the shell still on? Why make you dig for the last quarter of your shrimp meat? And in the case of tempura, why fry the tail shell in there too?
I'll be the SS and say that if the shrimp has been deep fried and the tail shell piece is super crispy cooked then I won't bother picking it off and I'll just eat it.
Calcium or protein or whatever. It doesn't bother me too much.
However if it's cocktail shrimp or stir fry or something that shell piece is coming off.
What? Where are you getting shrimp tempura that they're leaving the shell on? No one eats the shell. You hold the little bit of shell left on the tail and pull the meat out.
Every Japanese restaurant I've ever eaten at leaves the shell on the tail. It pisses me off. A make roll is supposed to be eaten in a bite or two with chopsticks, why are you giving me two pieces I have to destroy with my hands in order to eat?!?
Post by fortnightlily on Aug 3, 2015 13:09:15 GMT -5
See, I thought the shell was gross, too. I was just second guessing if it was just me. Because why the hell are you serving me food that is not otherwise supposed to be eaten with the hands and making me get on in there?
Like if you give me pasta with shrimp, I should be able to eat the whole daggone thing with my fork. Unless I am somehow not competent at tail-meat-fork extraction. But still, you shelled the rest of it, why did you stop?
It's like giving me pasta with chicken, only each chicken piece has one little bit with the feathers still attached.
If the tail meat comes out of the shell, I'll eat that. But who eats the shell itself?
Yeah, but then why do so many places serve it with just the tail part of the shell still on? Â Why make you dig for the last quarter of your shrimp meat? Â And in the case of tempura, why fry the tail shell in there too?
So you have a handle! But I can't explain the remaining tail/shell in a roll, that makes no sense.
Every Japanese restaurant I've ever eaten at leaves the shell on the tail. It pisses me off. A make roll is supposed to be eaten in a bite or two with chopsticks, why are you giving me two pieces I have to destroy with my hands in order to eat?!?
You put the whole thing in your mouth, eat around the shell, then spit it out.
Eat around the shell? Inside my mouth? Just use my super anteater tongue and wiggle the meat out 'o there? No.
Yeah, but then why do so many places serve it with just the tail part of the shell still on? Why make you dig for the last quarter of your shrimp meat? And in the case of tempura, why fry the tail shell in there too?
So you have a handle! But I can't explain the remaining tail/shell in a roll, that makes no sense.
Why do I need a handle? I'm not eating it with my hands!!
H and I went to this ramen place and he got seafood ramen and it still had the heads on the shrimp. He was like, "WTF is this?" Nothing like digging around in your bowl of soup trying to peel a shrimp.
I'm sure it imparts some special je ne sais quoi to the flavor of the dish or whatever, but yeah... why give me a non-finger-food dish and make me dig into it with my hands to render it edible?
The Japanese restaurant I frequent makes these amazing tempura fried shrimp, and sometimes I eat the tails. Because they are also covered in delicious sauces and fried. It really isn't as bad as you all think. Now, shrimp in every other dish, I remove the tails.
When we were at one of the shrimp trucks in Oahu (twice), both times people near me popped the whole shrimp in their mouths including tail and shell and it made it hard for me to keep eating. And the shrimp were fucking delicious.