Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 39 – Hit The Beach

Slap on that sunscreen kids and grab a shovel! Shawn and Simon are hunting the sandy shores for mussels, oysters, clams, crabs, seaweed and a million other varieties of sea life, all delicious and all free! 

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

CAN U DIG IT APP: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/can-u-dig-it/id1492150706

TIDES APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tide-charts/id957143504

 BLUE WATER CAFE COOKBOOK: https://www.bluewatercafe.net/about/cookbook.html

Miso Roasted Oysters: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/miso-roasted-oysters/

The Coastal Forager’s Cookbook by Chef Robin Kort: https://www.amazon.com/Coastal-Foragers-Cookbook-Recipes-Northwest/dp/1771514086

Fishing BC App: https://fishingbcapp.ca/

Khurangbin album A La Sala: https://khruangbin.bandcamp.com/album/a-la-sala

Picture of Sea Asparagus via : https://eatnorth.com/dan-clapson/what-hell-sea-asparagus

Horang Restaurant and Bar (Nanaimo, BC)

Up until recently Korean restaurants on the North tip of Vancouver Island tend to land in one of two buckets: First and most plentiful are the Korean-owned Japanese-style restaurants that serve sushi, sashimi, noodles and are always identifiable by the addition of kimchi with their agadashi tofu. Second in minority are the Jjigae joints serving homestyle ramen stews that are a revelation when eaten in house and tend to suffer greatly if subjected to door dash.

Created by the same crew that ran a couple aforementioned-style restaurants in the past, Nanaimo’s Horang is proudly Korean (there are lots of double consonants on this menu) but also includes lots of nods to the Japanese-Korean fusion that made fish-pickled cabbage downright trendy when a lot of Canadians still thought tofu and seaweed was exotic. Also, they will slap cheese on anything!

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