“Wrapping yourself in seaweed to reduce the size of your waist is another con.”

“First dish out from the kitchen was a seaweed salad beautifully presented inside a cylindrical basket of root vegetable I guess was jicama.”

“The other is Palmaria palmata, or Dulse, a red-brown seaweed with fronds radiating from a central disc.”

“The fusion food tickled my palate tantalisingly as I heaped satay and dim sums on my platter along with the wide variety of seafood and seaweeds.”

“The most valued of the cultivated seaweeds is the red alga Porphyra, or Nori.”

“Other commonly used seaweeds are wakame and kombu, which are types of kelp.”