Lee

In the past couple of days I got like way too into the idea of making the "living armor" dishes and started overcomplicating the whole thing so now I have to put that idea on pause until I calm down about it lmao

Basically it went like this. The recipe I saw on tumblr was essentially a miso soup with scallops but that was bc OP had texture issues with other shellfish - I don't have that issue and actively enjoy clams, and clam meat looks more like the living armor meat anyway, so I was like "ok cool. clam miso soup. easy." Except then I went and looked up some "real" recipes for that sort of thing just to make sure I wasn't completely flying by the seat of my pants here... and inevitably got distracted by all the other shellfish recipes I passed along the way. Specifically, a recipe for stir-fried snails. It got me all excited because I've never had snails before and the recipe looked easy enough (and they did do a stir fry in the living armor meal), but the problem now is that there aren't any proper Chinese markets really near me - by which I mean closer than an hour each way on the train :') I did actually just get back from scoping out a place in Brooklyn's Chinatown (and they DID have snails at least 🎉) but like I said it's not really any closer to me than the Chinatown in Manhattan.

So I'm putting that on the shelf for later.

Anyway what I'm doing instead is defrosting all the pork oysters in my freezer so I can make katsu - they make giant frog katsu in Dungeon Meshi so it all works out. It'd be nice if I could like... somehow massage the pork flavor into something resembling irl frog, but oyster steaks have a very strong flavor already so it would probably backfire on me. I'll just have to use my imagination...