Last week, I went parents home and I had lots of food which I don't usually eat myself, because my mother is a Kenkou Otaku (health geek). It was tough to eat Pickled Banana (apparently it is/was very popular in Japan) and Pickled Prune. But I learnt that mekabu (wakame root) is quite tasty. Actually I'm hooked now and I eat mekabu every day!

I've never seen the full shape of Mekabu before. I knew only thinly sliced one from a shop. When my mother and I saw the fresh mekabu in a supermarket, she said fresh one is available only in early spring, and she bought four packs. I think it was too much! The colour changes from brown to green after boiling, and it becomes very slimy. So it was too much work cutting lots of slimy mekabu thin by a knife. But it's nice to eat with sliced onion.