Eating Sea Urchin at Sai Kung.

Have you ever had a living sea urchins opened in front of you and scoop it up to eat with spoons? :D

That's just what Mr. MonkeyMan and I did this evening.

It was a fun trip. We took a 40 minutes bus from Tiu Keng Leng to Sai Kung. The bus ride was quite rocky and Mr. M felt a little motion sick afterwards. :D

Fortunately, after about 15 minutes of sitting down on a bench, we were well enough to walk around the sea side walkway until our ferry arrives at 5:30pm.


To call it a ferry is not entirely true. It's actually a Sampan.

Before we board the boat, we walked around the seafood street. The seafood there are huge, fresh and usual. :D

The most unusual I found were the horseshoe crabs. Can they even be eaten?!

The sampan ride was kinda neat. It's very chilly with the sea breeze. The boat ride took about an hour to get to our destination, "The Sea urchin farm" :D

The water was so clean in that area we could spot jellyfish swimming with our boat. it's hard to take pictures of them though.

After 40 or maybe 50 minutes in the boat (Note to self: It's quite cold, so next time, bring a warmer jacket!), we finally get there a little bit after sun set.

We were given a pet sea urchin to play with during our meal and I think it's the cruelest thing we Chinese could do! :D Imagine that pet sea urchin, witnessing its brothers being cracked open alive and eaten by hungry humans.... oh my :D




But as a hungry human, cruelty is not really my concern! :D hahahah

Although it's suppose to be in season right now, the sea urchins we were given weren't too fat yet. I think we are eating the teenager of the lot!

It's not as good as the Tokyo sea urchins, but it's good nonetheless. It's creamy, sweet and a little sea salty. It's so good we both had 4 of them each.

The sea urchin is such a weird creature, it moves even after it's killed!! :D below is a video of the zombie sea urchin at the end of our meal. :D



We also had an abalone each and a steamed fish for that meal. :) The meal was quite over priced but the experience was one of a kind. :)


If you are looking for something to do on the weekend, this is not a bad place to visit.


Tomorrow is the Shatin race course for us. So stay tuned.