abalone
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“The shucked abalone is trimmed, butterflied, and thwacked lightly with a mallet.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
For commercial abalone farmers, “four years is a long time to raise a shellfish to the size of a duck’s egg.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The coastal waters are used by tribal people for seaweed and abalone gathering, and the shores host youth cultural camps, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Kim Namin, 29, runs a seasoned gim processing factory with a 30-year family history in Wando, an island in South Korea's southern waters known for abalone and seaweed production.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
In 1947, no one was yet drying abalone commercially.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
He recalled dishes considered delicacies such as donkey meat and abalones - a type of mollusc - being flown in from Pyongyang.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2023
The traditional dish known as “poon choi,” or “basin food,” is a large dish filled with lotus root, radish, taro and more expensive delicacies such as prawns, abalones and meat layered on top.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2022
“Chinese people like to eat these expensive foods like sea cucumbers and abalones at our Lunar New Year family gatherings because we have worked very hard over the past year,” Fong said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2022
For centuries, fishermen have carved their homes into the bluffs, like bird’s nests, plucking abalones and sailing out for bamboo crabs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2016
The whalebone knife I used for prying abalones from the rocks was tied to a thong at my waist.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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