SEAHORSES in your soup might sound odd, yet that’s exactly what one of Sydney’s most popular seafood restaurants has been dishing up courtesy of Tasmania’s Seahorse World.
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Seahorse World managing director Craig Hawkins said he was delighted that the Fisherman’s Wharf restaurant was seeking his business and he hoped that the Chinese cuisine would be embraced elsewhere.
‘‘Westerners apply a high value to cuteness, and having a cute seahorse in your soup is not to some people’s liking,’’ Mr Hawkins said.
‘‘It’s just a cultural difference,we eat other fish and quite logically a seahorse is a fish,’’ Mr Hawkins said.
Mr Hawkins said that the perception among the proportion of the population was that cuteness was a valid criteria for protection, yet wondered whether the same people had similar views on other farmed animals.
Regardless, Mr Hawkins was confident that with a growing numbers of Chinese tourists in Australia, demand would increase.
‘‘The Chinese market will respond to the pristine environment of our food supply and it’s good for a little regional community like this,’’ he said.
‘‘It helps secure the employment of the staff we have here.’’