Eye Eat You

Everything in EYE's sight you eat!!! 
I guess this includes the eyes of the blue fin tuna O.o 


This week's bizarre food is a blue fin tuna eyeballs....doesn't that sound just oh so....well different to say the least but yes people in China and Japan both eat the eyeballs of this fish.

I'm sure most people the only thing we hear about tuna is well a tuna fish sandwich...  yay for going back to our childhood memories...well not really my own seeing how i hated the smell of a tuna fish sandwich blaaaaaa it just smelled like yuck with the mixture of tuna and mayonnaise. Even to this day when my mom makes my dad a tuna fish sandwich for his lunch and i come home and i say "ewwwww did you make dad tuna fish?!" 


The only other time I'm sure some people think of tuna is when they go out for Japanese or Hawaiian food and they grilled, poached or have  poke ahi...ahi = yellow fin tuna...it almost looks like steak doesn't it? I'm planning on tricking my friend who isn't a really big fish fan and have her eat grilled ahi and just say its steak, I'm curious to see her reaction when she eats it.




So I'm sure after seeing these 2 lovely photos of delicious food you have forgotten what the topic of this post was all about but remember its about the EYEBALL!

Look at it...its just staring at you with its eye. A lot of friends have told oh i don't like to eat fish or see fresh fish because they look at me well getting them to eat this....well I'm almost certain i can say would be impossible.  

Its a little uncertain on how to eat this or even how to cook it but apparently after boiling it, the eye is kind of on the fatty side but the dark muscle is supposed to taste "okay" my judgement of "okay" my fair from someone else's, i feel like the eyeball maybe used as good source of flavor since it fatty so making a soup with it would probably be the best way to go if your going to try this.


Heres a little video of tuna eyeball with Andrew Zimmern, though in this case it actually sounds really delicious but then again how can something thats been braised in miso and red wine taste bad mmmm...can't wait to go Japan and try tuna eyeballs prepared like that :D