Kardakouk Cuisine

This page is to hold the information about the local specialties of the planet Kardakouk and what you can expect of their food there if you should ever visit.

Flora based Food

Coral platter

This appetizer comes with a variety of corals that come in various colors, flavors and textures that is sure to make any meal fun. The selection is wide but most find themselves after trying them all sticking to a few of them. They grow by themselves, making them sustainable source of food. The corals are grown in a isolated area to protect them from the local sea life. The live ones taste better than the dried out coral, however they are rarely brought out for visitors due to protect this valuable export . These corals have gone through many experimentation and treatment processes to make them palatable to humans.

Sea Salad

This vegetable dish takes some of the more popular fauna depending on which zone of the planet you are on. It usually includes Seaweed, Seagrass and algae and some coral slices, usually covered with some Grentsd Snail oil.

Seaonge Bread

This bread is made from sea sponges which causes the bread to have a very light and aired texture. It will collect oxygen bubbles around it if left in the water for a while. Most Human travelers in Kardakouk will take this bread with them, in case their oxygen line breaks allowing them to recapture the air.

Sewral Boiled Bread

This bread is made by grinding coral into powder and mixing it with a special type of seaweed that when it is placed in boiling water for a long time it sucks up all the ingredients around it and removes the water from it. This bread will remain dry in the water no mater how much water it is subjected to. does not last for long as it will keep setting until it becomes like a rock at which point you have to grind it up and start the process over again

Fauna based Food

Blurek Nutrient Bar

The species Queltl once offered a bloodworm to the humans to eat but a lot of them were repulsed, so instead of just offering the raw worm for them to swallow they made a nutrient bar and they refuse to tell humans what is in it.

Grilled Smarkovk

A lungfish, that lives around an anemone called a grarne, cooked with a technology improved by the arrival of humans. Hot water pumped from the surface into small tubing. Placing the lungfish on the pipes, they then grilled the salmon colored fish on in their Oxygen filled homes. It leaves some nice scoring lines and is somewhat a favorite among the alien species. Traditionally they tend to cook fish inside vents of boiling water.

Kardakouk medley

This dish features a variety of krill, shrimp and oysters which are then cooked under the stars light through a vent in the rocks it is glazed in sea honey and served in a shell of a crab.

Shredded Fish Coleslaw

A side dish that takes on many flavors a lot of it depending on the fish that is used for it. The Fredish String is popular for this one cause when shredded it keeps its form. It is then mixed in with some fermented algae and Seaweed.

Srerktoc Crab

This giant crab is a favorite among the Tar'et, so much so that they have made a breeding ground specifically to farm them for their cuisine. They enjoy just eating the crab raw after breaking open their shells but have evolved a dish so that humans can enjoy it, although they say that the taste is the best after just cracking the shell.

Srerktoc Crab Tartare

The crab meat gets minced into tiny chunks then mixed in with some spices and edible coral zest to provide a delicious raw dish which is usually served with some leafy Sea Salad

Other

Algaenate

A dressing made from the many types of algae on Kardakouk. It is spicy, bitter, tangy and sweet if all the recommended algae are used to make it. However there are just regular ones that only encompass one of the flavors depending on which type of algae is used

Grentsd Snail oil

This oil is produced by extracting the oil out of the mucus of a snail with pressure. It has a tangy taste to it. however the snails are small so it takes a bunch to make enough to just serve on a salad

Sea Honey

A by-product of a creature which is used in the farming of seagrass, it collects the pollen released from the seagrass and helps fertilize the others when it goes from plant to plant. It has a very sticky like substance that leaves behind a sweet scent in the water.

Drinks

Coralcral

A drink that is made from an edible coral that has the texture of jelly. the juice is pressed out and then mixed with some mineral spring water that settles in surface area of the ocean.

Grarnegalsh

When humans arrived they were offered this drink by the aliens. It was one of the natural occurring liquids on their planets which they could actually tell was different to water. It comes from an anemone that secretes it as a protective measure but that the Queltl really liked. The anemone also keeps some cleaner fish that would give them their version of a shower. However it turns out that humans are allergic to the protective liquid.

Kardakouk sambva

A liquor made from sea grass pollen it is rather strong, suggested that you find your limit by popping one bubble of liquor at a time and not near anyone with gills