I was at the grocery store and I got the urge to eat something new. I looked around and I didn't really see much until I found a food that could look back. It was only a hundred yen, which is less than a buck, so I figured I'd give it a whirl. It had a sticker on it that said that it should be cooked, but I didn't really know how to cook it. I tried to find stuff online, but there aren't a lot of English webpages devoted to eating fish eyes, so I just decided to boil it.
They are actually pretty big.
I didn't use any flavoring so it just ended up smelling
horribly fishy.
There was a translucent, jelly-like ball inside that turned
into a hard, white ball. It tasted a little like a hard-boiled egg does, so I'm guessing that it was mostly
protein. It actually didn't taste too bad.
The eyeball was surrounded by a bunch of fat and a few
severed eye muscles. I didn't really want a mouthfull of
fat, so I didn't eat it. I suspect that it would be good
in a soup or stew. I instead picked out the dark brown muscle, which actually tasted okay.
