Favorite Seafood

[sharkbait130]

All of it... and I do mean all. I grew up a stones throw from the Chesapeake Bay so there was a lot of seafood to be had. My dad was a C.P.A and had a few seafood restaurants as clients so that helped too. If I had to choose just one , I guess I would have to go with raw oysters. My families traditional Christmas dinner is stuffed lobster (stuffed with crab imperial) asparagus with hollendais sauce and a baked potato with bacon and sour cream. Seahag makes it all and it is outstanding. Always fresh lobster and there are usually lobster races on the kitchen floor before we cook them up. Funny how many people want to have Christmas dinner with us. We have had as many as 13 at the table. That was an expensive year lol.

 

[Gorn]

All of it... and I do mean all.

Even lutefisk?

 

[sharkbait130]

Don't know if I've ever had it but I'll try anything that comes out of the water. Guess I'll have to put that one on the list next time I'm by the bay or Ocean City Md. Oh , and as to your previous post about some scallops that are really stingray wings , yes it's true. Really hard to tell them apart and the stingray wings are darn good. Too bad they have to misrepresent them to sell them. If you are in a restaurant and order scallops , and they are all huge and the same size , you're probably eating stingray. Shark and swordfish are very similar too.

 

[nukes_da_bass]

Chinese restaurants- never ever ever eat anything labeled "MEAT chowmein".
Never.

 

[Darth Handsome]

Don't know if I've ever had it but I'll try anything that comes out of the water. Guess I'll have to put that one on the list next time I'm by the bay or Ocean City Md. Oh , and as to your previous post about some scallops that are really stingray wings , yes it's true. Really hard to tell them apart and the stingray wings are darn good. Too bad they have to misrepresent them to sell them. If you are in a restaurant and order scallops , and they are all huge and the same size , you're probably eating stingray. Shark and swordfish are very similar too.

I have 1000% confidence this post is accurate, Sharkbait.

Hoo ha ha.

 

[bachlover]

Pretty much everything. Favorites are raw mackerel sushi with green onion and ginger topping, tuna belly sushi, scallops (raw or cooked), swordfish steaks, halibut, oysters (raw or baked), lobster. Nothing tastes like the sea as much as raw oysters IMO - love 'em!

 

[sharkbait130]

Chinese restaurants- never ever ever eat anything labeled "MEAT chowmein".
Never.

Moo goo gai cat anyone????

 

[nukes_da_bass]

Mroooooow!

 

[Gorn]

Taverna Kyclades in Astoria, Queens has some fantastic greek style seafood. Everything is amazing but I always get the fried whiting. No bones aside from the spine. I could eat 100 of these. Unless you get there when they open, you'll have to wait but it's worth it.

The grilled sardines are fantastic, but bonier.

 

[RS]

Scallops are sooo good. Good scallops, that is.

I've heard the scallops that crappy restaurants serve are actually stingray wings. They punch holes out of the wings and sell it as scallops. Not sure if that's true.

I think those are "bay scallops". The big ones in good restaurants should be the real deal.

RS

 

[DwaynieAD]

beat me to it.

 

[Phalex]

Blue Crab is my all time favorite, followed by scallops, and Monk fish.

 

[Phalex]

I can't believe I neglected a local favorite: Yellow Bellied Lake Perch!! Oh, YES!!!!

 

[buldog5151bass]

Almost anything you just caught, cleaned and cooked is great.

 

[Frank Tuesday]

Urchin balls. It must be Tuesday.

I wonder how much uni they'd sell at sushi restaurants if they labeled it as Urchin Testicles instead of Urchin Roe. To be fair, both the testes and ovaries are used in sushi, so you might not be eating any balls at all, if that makes you feel any better about it.

 

[Mushroo]

Mackerel (saba) sushi

It's fishy but not TOO fishy.

 

[Fielding]

Frogmore Stew (aka Low Country Boil)
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Shrimp & Grits

 

[Tituscrow]

All of it... and I do mean all. I grew up a stones throw from the Chesapeake Bay so there was a lot of seafood to be had. My dad was a C.P.A and had a few seafood restaurants as clients so that helped too. If I had to choose just one , I guess I would have to go with raw oysters. My families traditional Christmas dinner is stuffed lobster (stuffed with crab imperial) asparagus with hollendais sauce and a baked potato with bacon and sour cream. Seahag makes it all and it is outstanding. Always fresh lobster and there are usually lobster races on the kitchen floor before we cook them up. Funny how many people want to have Christmas dinner with us. We have had as many as 13 at the table. That was an expensive year lol.

Sharkbait.

Hoo Ha Ha.

 

[Tituscrow]

Moo goo gai cat anyone????

Sharkbait.

Hoo Ha Ha.

 

[kesslari]

mmm... so many fish, so little time. I go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium's open water tank, see all the tuna, and I get soooo hungry - Sushi on the hoof!

Yellowtail sashimi... Maguro too
Seared albacore, fresh salmon, grilled...
Prawns wrapped in prosciutto or bacon...
Sea bass, halibut...
I'm gonna need a second lunch.

Taking my beautiful wife to Scoma's in SF this weekend. Will dine on some of the best seafood on the west coast.