Emerald Cove Instant Pacific Sea Vegetable Salad, 16-Ounce Bag Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a nice bag of 1lb of different kinds of dried seaweed: wakame, aka funori, kiriboshi wakame, shiro kikurage, ito kanten, kizami hoshi kombu, according to the label. I'm somewhat new to seaweed but there's definitely a nice variety of colors (red, white, clear, light green, dark green) and textures among the seaweed- it looks beautiful in a salad. Sixty-some dollars is alot for a pound of food but at 1/4 cup (dry) per serving of sea weed salad, this will last you a while: the bag says there's 90 quarter-cup servings in the bag. The sea weed swells alot when soaked in warm water. Also, I live in the middle of nowhere and I can't just run out to my local Asian supermarket to see if they have a similar product for half the price.
The seaweed smelled nice and fresh, a gentle ocean smell- no stinky fish smell, no "off" flavor. There's no sauce or seasoning on it, you make your own. Unlike the limp salads made of wakame leaves, this seaweed mix makes a light and "fluffy", "perky" salad. This product definitely makes a fancier, better seaweed salad than I've had at the 6 or 7 Japanese restaurants I can remember eating at. Although, if you are looking for just dried wakame stems, this is not that product.
I googled and found a dressing I really like, made of 3T rice vinegar, 3T soy sauce, 2T sesame seed oil, 1tsp sugar, 1tsp grated ginger, 1/2 tsp minced garlic, 2 chopped scallions, all just mixed together. (The dressing even stays good in a cup in the fridge for a week or two!) I soak the seaweed for 10 or 15 minutes in warm water, drain, mix in the dressing, and it's ready. To make a small amount of seaweed stretch further, I serve it on top of shredded carrot and/or shredded radish. (I got that idea from my local Japanese restaurant.)
Unlike Emerald Cove's 3lb wakame product, which is made in China, this 1lb sea salad is a product of Japan. The website says that it is wild-harvested along Japan's coast. It's imported by Great Eastern Sun from Ashville NC. The label lists no preservatives or anything besides seaweed as ingredients.

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