Shellfish

🇧🇧Barbados

Sea Eggs

The roe of the white sea urchin, scooped out, seasoned and steamed back inside the shell — once common, now under a tight quota.

🇨🇱Chile

Sea Urchin

Erizos

Sea urchin roe served raw with lemon or in preparations like empanadas, a Chilean coastal delicacy, bright and briny.

🇺🇸United States

Shrimp Chippewa

A New Orleans restaurant dish of shrimp in a creamy sauce with mushrooms and sherry.

🇺🇸New Orleans, United States

Shrimp Creole

A New Orleans dish of shrimp simmered in a tomato-onion-pepper sauce, served over rice.

🇺🇸United States

Shrimp DeJonghe

A Chicago original: shrimp baked under a garlicky, herbed breadcrumb-butter crust.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Shrimp in Garlic Wine

Camarão em Vinha de Alhos

Shrimp marinated in garlic, wine vinegar, and herbs, then grilled or pan-fried, a Portuguese-influenced Cape Verdean dish.

🇺🇸United States

Shrimp Remoulade

A New Orleans cold appetizer of boiled shrimp with a piquant Creole remoulade sauce.

🇪🇸Catalonia, Spain

Sitges-Style Squid

Calamars a la sitgetana

Calamars a la sitgetana are small squid lightly fried, then stewed with softened onion, bay, and Malvasia de Sitges wine.

🇨🇳Hunan, China

Spicy Crayfish (Kouwei Xia)

口味虾

Kouwei xia, the tub of chilli-braised crayfish eaten by hand at summer night markets, is a named Chinese seasonal phenomenon with its own street culture.

🇰🇷South Korea

Spicy Stir-Fried Octopus

낙지볶음

Small octopus stir-fried with vegetables in a spicy gochujang-based sauce, known for its chewy texture and bold flavor.

🇰🇷South Korea

Spicy Stir-Fried Squid

오징어볶음

Squid stir-fried with vegetables in a spicy gochujang sauce, a popular home-cooked dish and drinking food (anju).

🇨🇱Chile

Squid

Jibia

Squid prepared in various ways, often grilled or in stews, a common Chilean coastal ingredient, tender and flavorful.

🇪🇸Spain

Squid in Ink

Calamares en su tinta

Squid or cuttlefish cooked in their own ink with onion, garlic, and white wine, creating a deep black, intensely flavored sauce.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Steamed Lobster

Lagosta Suada

Lobster cooked in a red tomato-based sauce with onions, garlic, and herbs, served with rice or bread to soak up the sauce.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Stewed Land Crab

Salmorejo de jueyes

Picked land crab meat stewed down in sofrito, tomato and annatto until it is thick enough to stuff back into the shell or spoon over mofongo.

🇺🇸United States

Stone crab claws

Florida stone crab claws, cooked, chilled, and served with mustard sauce — the Miami delicacy.

🇺🇸United States

Stuffed Clam

A New England baked appetizer of chopped clams, breadcrumbs, and seasonings in a clam shell.

🇼🇫Wallis and Futuna

Stuffed Clams

Palourdes farcies

Clams gathered at low tide from the Wallis lagoon, stuffed with herbs, garlic and breadcrumbs and baked until golden; a favourite lagoon speciality served at family meals.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Stuffed Crab

Crabe Farcis

Stuffed crab; a tasty marine dish; crab shells filled with crab meat, spices, and breadcrumbs; a Guadeloupean specialty; the stuffed crab that is a Guadeloupean delight.

🇬🇺Guam

Stuffed Land Crab

Pång'lao

Pång'lao is land crab stuffed with a seasoned mixture and baked, often using the large-clawed crooked crab found on Guam.

🇲🇴Macao

Stuffed Squid

Lula Recheada

Macanese stuffed squid; Portuguese sausage chourico, onion, garlic, minced meat, and egg whites mixed and stuffed inside squid; topped with tomato sauce; a Macanese delicacy; a fusion of Portuguese and Chinese ingredients; the stuffed squid that is a Macanese restaurant classic.

🇲🇹Malta

Stuffed Squid

Klamari mimlija

Squid tubes packed with breadcrumbs, their own tentacles, garlic, parsley, olives and capers, then baked or braised in wine.

🇦🇺Australia

Sydney Rock Oyster

Rock Oyster

Endemic Australian oyster, smaller and softer than Pacific oyster, distinctive creamy and complex flavour, plump meat with fresh briny smell and clean shell, served natural.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos de camarones

Shrimp tacos, sautéed or fried.

🇹🇼Tainan, Taiwan

Tainan Shrimp Roll

蝦捲

This Tainan snack rolls seasoned shrimp in a crisp wrapper and fries it until the filling stays juicy.

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

TCI Steamed Conch

Steamed Conch

A traditional Turks and Caicos preparation where conch is steamed, often served with grits or hominy; a classic method before frying became common

🇨🇳Guangdong, China

Teochew Cold Crab

潮州冻蟹

Teochew cold crab, steamed then chilled and served with vinegar, is a named Chaoshan restaurant dish.

🇪🇸Spain

Tigres

Breadcrumbed, fried mussels, a classic northern Spanish bar snack.

🇧🇪Belgium

Tomate Crevette

Tomate crevette is a peeled tomato filled with a generous salad of North Sea grey shrimp and mayonnaise.

🇹🇴Tonga

Tongan Devilled Clams

Devilled clams

Tongan devilled clams are lagoon clams cooked with onion, chilli, and warm spices, then served hot as a briny, lightly fiery coastal dish.

🇹🇴Tonga

Tongan Elili

Elili

Sea snails gathered from Tonga's reefs and tidal areas, eaten fresh or prepared as a small, briny island delicacy.

🇹🇴Tonga

Tongan Feke

Feke

Tongan feke is octopus or squid grilled or simmered with onion, chili, and coconut cream, then served with yams or green bananas.

🇹🇴Tonga

Tongan Tukumisi

Tukumisi

Tukumisi is the Tongan name for sea urchin, especially the soft edible roe gathered from reef and shoreline waters.

🇹🇴Tonga

Tongan U'o

U'o

U'o is the Tongan name for lobster, a reef shellfish valued for firm, sweet flesh in coastal meals.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Toroi

Cooked green-lipped mussels minced together with pūhā or watercress and enough cooking juice to bind; packed into jars or gourds where it keeps — and ferments slightly — then served cold spooned onto bread.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Tuatua

Pale surf clams dug from clean-sand beaches where waves break, eaten raw straight from the shell or minced into fritters; recreational bag limits are small and enforced.