I found the Fundy Dulse Sea Lettuce Flakes at the local supermarket...and learned a new word. Dulse = "a dark red edible seaweed with flattened branching fronds".* The Sea Lettuce Flakes greatly resembles the Japanese aonori seaweed flakes, both in taste and texture! And even better, it's a local Nova Scotia product!
*From the Oxford American Dictionaries.
So, I got a bag of potato chips, dumped a bit together with a handful of Sea Lettuce Flakes in a ziplock bag and shook it up!
Et voila...! My very own nori-shio potato chips!
I imagine not too many are as excited about this discovery as I am. But, next time you make okonomiyaki, you know where to find the "aonori" without having to airlift some from Japan! :-)
