Please be alert of this food item ... It may infect your lung.
Do not eat these mini lobsters.These mini crustaceans are literally the garbage cleaners in the sewage treatment plants. The 'dirtier' the water, the fatter these mini lobsters become.Their lungs are full of worms and their flesh saturated with poisonous metals.
Unscrupulous merchants somehow found a way to get these marketed to eateries. But guess what?!? I actually ate some during my trip in Croatia. I got this from the night market. It is like their version of fish and chips but instead of the fish you get crayfish and calamari!
And so...the email continues with -- Do not order this dish. Pass this to those friends who may want to try these mini 'lobsters'.
Ehem...Another explaination on this disease term from Wikipedia: Paragonimiasis is a food-borne parasitic infection caused by the lung fluke, most commonly Paragonimus westermani. Infection in humans mainly occurs by ingestion of raw or undercooked freshwater crabs or crayfishes. It infects an estimated 22 million people worldwide. It is particularly common in East Asia. In China it has 2 different species the Paragonimus westermani and Pagumogonimus skrjabini. Treatment is with praziquantel, antiparasitic drug.
Anyhow, this is the nice view from our hotel. I captured this in the morning. Look how still is the water.. I asked how can the boat owners get to their boats when they let their boats float so far off shore...answer: they will pull the line tied between the boat and pole at the jeti towards them. The small boat is actually quite light when in water.
And us!
Me in the orange top (far right)
