Source: Atlas Obscura
What appears to be a steaming bowl of thick, white noodles is actually a seafood delicacy. Look a little closer at your bowl of angulas, a Basque dish relished for generations, and you’ll probably find a dozen tiny faces staring back at you.
Angulas, also known by their Basque name txitxardin (or “elvers” in English), are juvenile European eels that have been caught on their way back to ancestral rivers and streams.
As adults, the eels swim thousands of miles from Europe’s coasts to the Sargasso Sea (in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean), where they spawn, lay eggs, and die. After they’re born, the baby eels spend two to three years journeying back to Northern Spain via the Gulf…The post What look like noodles are actually delicious baby eels. appeared first on FeedBox.