Sea Weed Noodles! Rare. Look! Colorful, In Clumps, Granular on Close Up

Posted On February 29, 2012

I went to the marikina wet market this morning and I was lucky to have stumbled upon a new batch of rare sea weed noodles.  These are naturally occurring noodle looking sea weeds… looking more like the traditional pancit in the Philippines.  This time I bought 2 kilos instead of the usual half a kilo.  I’ll stuff myself with these today.  And besides, I’ve got guests coming over. 

The first batch of sea weed noodles I got from Farmers market in Cubao. More information from this wet market seller this time.  She said that to distinguish freshness, see that the sea weed noodles are in clumps.  If they are no longer in clumps, they aren’t fresh anymore.  And to keep them fresh until tonight, her tip was to put these in the refrigerator exposed to the air inside.

Of course at home I immediately ate 2 bowl fulls.  The first bowl my 10 year old boy had half of that.  We just cleansed these noodles in some organic coconut vinegar, you never know how it was handled.  Delicious.  Just like the artificial noodles.  But guilt free, because these are naturally occurring sea creatures.

Does anybody else have more info on these sea weed noodles?  Please tell us more by replying below.

Take a look!  Macro shot of these sea weed noodles.  Very interesting granular composition.