Comments on: Percebes

by: Kerstin

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:02:38 +0000

After some 30 yrs of curiosity about these strangelooking crustations, I had the chance to try them in a pinxos bar in Bilbao. We had spent some lovely days in Rioja Alavesa and spent the last hours strolling round the old quarters of the city before going to the airport and flying home to Sweden. I cannot say that I loved them instantly, but they tasted OK. I had quite a few. My husband tried maybe three little buggers. Four hours later he started vomitting and is still really ill 48 hours later! No more percebes for us!

by: Mike

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:59:24 +0000

I have wanted to try these little buggers since being told about them 25years ago and got my wish on a recent visit to Galicia. They are expensive (between 50 - 80 Euros per kilo) but people risk their lives getting them and it is worth the wait & the expense. We got recommended a bar (O Empalme) between Ponteceso and Laxe and it just served fish (no veg, no chips, no salad). I had to guess how to eat them but I think I guessed right - the rubbery sleeve inside the leathery leg (on another website it appears that someone went to a lot of trouble weedling out the bits inside the head which turned out to be the sex organs). Anyway it tasted ok to me and I would eat them again but considering that the whole meal for three of us came to 60 Euros - it is probably a bit of an indulgence to go for percebes at 30 euros per 500 grms.

by: DANNY HOBBS

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:18:56 +0000

JUST RETURNED FROM SHORT TRIP TO SAN SEBASTIAN, NORTH SPAIN. PURCHASED SOME PERCEBES WHICH WE FIRST TRIED IN BARCELONA, COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. CAN’T WAIT TO COOK THEM. A LOT CHEAPER THAN IN BARCELONA - HOPE QUALITY IS AS GOOD.

by: Thomas Frankenhaeuser

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:24:19 +0000

Percebes… I think Percebes is what I had some 15 years ago in Cape Town…
ate them naturelle i suppose… delicious. The others did not want them, so I had a lot, tasting better and better, and I never found them after that.

Where could I found them now? Is i Barcelona or is it Canada or is it Cap Town??

by: Lulu Cid

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:30:37 +0000

Just back from Barcelona; where for tapas the amazing dragon-footed black-tailed percebes was too interesting on sight to pass up for a taste. It’s a bright burst of brine and wave crashing in your mouth.

by: Lew Carlisle

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:51:04 +0000

Where can I buy fresh percebes?? I live in Greenville, SC and would like to buy them over the internet or find a wholesaler for my local fishmonger. Thank you in advance.

by: Roger

Wed, 02 May 2007 23:37:32 +0000

I harvest percebes and eat them. They are an exotic very high end seafood obtained at great risk. The taste is mild and depends a great deal on the liquid it is cooked in. Commonly bay leaves are used in the stock, I do not prefer the bay leaf taste personally, it is a European thing. I like straight salted broth, 5-7 minutes and then dipped. Butter, wasabi, soy sauce, hot sauce, cocktail sauce, are good condiments. I also fillet them flat after the parboiling, dip in chilled water, tempura coat and fry them.

The texture is like a clam the taste is between sweet clam and crab.

by: Maggie

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:47:40 +0000

As someone who will try anything once, I was bemused by exactly what I was supposed to do with percebes when I was presented with a plateful for the first (and last?!) time in northern Portugal in 2006.

I watched how local people ate them before delving in. I hated the first few I tried, but thinking that there may just be a few duff ones on the plate, I had several more.

Sorry, but they are absolutely awful things to eat!! Being me, I feel sure that I will try them again at some point in the future but, for now, every time I look at my photograph of these creatures I am repelled by them!

by: jjsanchez

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:52:57 +0000

juanfgs: (más vale responder tarde que nunca), no conozco ningún libro o tutorial que explique programación en C++ con Gnome, aunque es posible que buscando un poco aparezca alguno.

Los libros más populares sobre Gnome son:
- Los dos que están aquí citados (ambos muy antiguos): http://developer.gnome.org/doc/books/
- El más actualizado es “The Official GNOME 2 Developer’s Guide”
By Matthias Warkus (si no recuerdo mal, los ejemplos son todos con C): http://nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=gnome

Aquí tienes la documentación disponible (algunas cosas más actualizadas que otras): http://developer.gnome.org/doc/

Además, te recomiendo echar un vistazo también a este proyecto de Gnome Hispano: http://libros.es.gnome.org/librognome/

Gracias por tus palabras sobre las charlas :)

by: david marden

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:46:40 +0000

I tried percebes last year for the first time in Mexico and liked them. This is a very amazing thing, since people tell me I am a picky eater. The other interesting thing; I can’t stand the taste of shrimp, but I liked percebes. For anyone who is willing to try them, dip them in some hot sauce and you won’t be disappointed.