Jellyfish Typhoon Poised to Strike

You know you’re Asian when you see a giant 6ft 440lb Jellyfish and the first thing you think of is dinner.

A company called Tango Jersey Dairy sells vanilla and jellyfish ice cream, created by soaking diced cubes of Echizen kurage in milk. The resulting desert is described as “slightly chewy”.

From the article,

They poison fish, sting humans and even attack nuclear power stations. They are 6ft wide, up to 440lb in weight, and they are pink, slimy and repellent. They sound like rubber monsters from a Godzilla film, but they are Echizen kurage, or Nomura’s jellyfish, an authentic horror of the deep about to launch its latest assault on Japan.

Four years after they last caused havoc, and for reasons that remain mysterious, an armada of the gelatinous giants is gathering in the Yellow Sea off China and the Korean peninsula. It is expected to drift into the Sea of Japan in the next few months.

“The arrival is inevitable,” Professor Shinichi Ue, from Hiroshima University, told the Yomiuri newspaper. “A huge jellyfish typhoon will hit the country.”