A recently opened restaurant specializing in sea cucumber is serving the delicacy, cooked in more than 20 different ways.

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“The sea cucumber is a kind of sea animal,” Lin explained. Cooking and eating it requires soaking it in water for a week. “After getting it soft, you put in chicken (broth),” she said.

Sea cucumbers, or holothurians, are a diverse group, with many species distributed across the Central Pacific, Cook said.