A ramen store desires you to realize it's providing noodles served with its 'dream ingredient' — a large 14-legged deep-sea creature associated to woodlice

• A ramen store in Taiwan is providing a large isopod as a part of a brand new signature ramen dish.
• The 14-legged “Nice King-Legged Worm” tastes like lobster and crab, restaurant Ramen Boy says.
• The ramen goes for round $48 per bowl, and is served with shell and antennae.

A deep-sea isopod known as the “Nice King-Legged Worm” is now the centerpiece of a brand new dish at a ramen store in Taipei.

The large, 14-legged creature, discovered at depths of no less than 550 toes within the Atlantic, is the shop’s “dream ingredient,” the restaurant Ramen Boy stated in a Fb publish on Monday.

Ramen Boy assured prospects that the crustacean tastes identical to lobster and crab meat when steamed, and that its “yellow glands style like crab roe.”

Boiled in rooster soup and served with squid and bonito flakes, the King-Legged Worm ramen prices round $48 a bowl, in line with Ramen Boy.

Diners will obtain their ramen topped with the isopod’s shell and antennae, which the restaurant stated is only for ornament.

“The Nice King-Legged Worm may be very cute, after I go to Japan, I am going to go to an aquarium to see it,” Ramen Boy’s Fb publish stated.

“The takeaway woman has simply stated she does not dare to return to work,” the publish added.

The large isopod in query is the Bathynomus giganteus, a carnivorous species distantly associated to shrimp, crabs, and customary woodlice.

They are not normally fished for industrial consumption as a result of they dwell at depths of as much as 7,000 toes. However big isopods are generally present in Japanese delicacies. In 2015, a Japanese firm began making crackers out of the crustaceans.

That hasn’t stopped folks within the feedback from reacting with some warning to Ramen Boy’s new dish, or evaluating the “dream ingredient” to outsized cockroaches.

“I did hear that it tastes very candy, however I am going to move,” stated the highest remark.

“That actually appears means too scary,” stated one other.

Ramen Boy didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.