This restaurant-style Japanese Seaweed Salad (a.k.a. “wakame“) is perfect when paired with sushi, soup, poke bowl, or as a healthy appetizer.

Wakame is a species of edible seaweed, a type of marine algae, and a sea vegetable. It has a subtly sweet, but distinctive and strong flavor and texture. It is most often served in soups and salads.

Sea farmers in Japan have grown wakame since the Nara period (AD 710 to 794). It’s considered the “superfood of the sea!”

An order of one (1) equals a 0.5 lb package of wakame