We were at a sushi restaurant in Hatchobori (which is right next to Tsukiji and its famed fish market) last week. We had a bunch of great sashimi and sushi, but the highlight of the dinner, without question, was the corn barnacle.
You had to pull the actual barnacle out of the stony shell that it had created for itself. The barnacle was about the size of a marble and at least a couple of them were still (briefly) alive. It didn’t taste like much, but eating something that had been scraped off the bottom of a boat (or maybe a dying whale?) was pretty cool.
I forgot to take a picture, but here’s one that I snagged from Google Images. Mmm mmm good!
