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Abalone

Shinan Abalone

Gall Bladder of a bear of the sea with good nutrition and invigoration

Shinan Abalone

Abalone is divided by the bluish black and firm flesh male and red and soft female. Male abalone is good for sliced raw fish and female one is proper for cooking. Abalone is fed with seaweeds such as kelp, seaweed, gulfweed, etc. and the dark organ means that it digests the seaweed, which is a healthy food.

As the old royal cuisine could not be discussed without abalone, abalone has been excellent qualitatively in terms of taste and nutrition compared to other seafoods.

In the oriental medicine , abalone was called Seokgyeolmyeong and it can fix the illness of being blind with normal-looking eyes and if it is eaten for a long time, the body becomes light, the eyes become bright, and the hearing can be improved. Thus, it was called the young gentleman of the thousand-ri cassia seed.

Abalone has nothing to be thrown away from horns to internal organs and there are various recipes using abalone.

The most popular one is the sliced raw abalone; wash the abalone and slice the abalone thinly to pick up easily. The custom is to eat this along with the internal organs (so called Gewoo) which can be excretion of abalone. Only after this was taken, you can claim that you have eaten the abalone.

It is mainly produced in Heuksan area of Shinan county and since the shell has no foreign substances stuck, its merchandise value is high and it is full of various vitamins, minerals, protein, and so on.
Abalone dish
Abalone dish