Comments on: Fresh Swaki or Sea Urchin Gonads…

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:24:32 +0000

Josie, these photos taken in Bohol. Not Batangas.

By: Josie

Josie — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:11:19 +0000

Hi! In what part of Batangas is this? I can just buy the sea urchin from the beach?

By: millet

millet — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 23:14:52 +0000

..and not a single hand had a glove on while handling the urchins. hands of steel!

By: lynn v

lynn v — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:14:55 +0000

My mom used to get this from Tangke, an adjacent town from Talisay in Cebu. We ate this with lechon and puso on Sundays. I can still remember the smell of steaming hot lechon and the taste of that sweet, sweet uni.

By: kristin

kristin — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:53:00 +0000

Had my first taste test in Siargao four years ago, looking forward again this year. Lami!

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:46:13 +0000

One of the best things I remember about Bohol! Yum!

By: jakespeed

jakespeed — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:48:44 +0000

I have tried this once in Marigindon, Mactan in the mid-90’s after we beach-hopped. We ate this together with inihaw na baboy and isda. I was apprehensive at first because of the unsanitary looking bottle, but what the heck, I tried it and enjoyed ‘uni’ at its freshest form.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 02:36:13 +0000

Hello Footloose! I haven’t read a comment from you for a long time.

By: Stewart Sy

Stewart Sy — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 22:14:53 +0000

Wow, PHP50! I paid some Bajao in Batangas to harvest about double the amount in that bottle for about P1000, including shucking the oysters. I ended up cooking it ala Eric Ripert when I was in Batangas last year.

Hmm, I may have over paid! =).

By: EJ

EJ — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:50:38 +0000

Like Vanessa, I wonder what the effect this commercial activity has on the sea urchin population.