# Where Can I Buy Good Lobster Surimi?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 26, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-good-lobster-surimi/497693 "2009-05-26T15:55:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-good-lobster-surimi/497693/1 "2009-05-26T15:55:12Z")

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Surimi is usually crab-flavored. However, years ago, I was at a trade show. After the show closed, the sponsors had a buffet lunch for the exhibitors…along with this was a tray of fake lobster (surimi). This stuff was amazing-it looked and tasted like Maine lobster! I have never seen the product in supermarkets here…anybody know where you can get this stuff?

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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-good-lobster-surimi/497693/2 "2009-05-26T21:51:36Z")

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Hell, in my world Good Lobster Surimi is an oxymoron. I’ll eat the crab surimi reluctantly, but I’ve never had any that was remotely as good as the real thing. I was in Belgium and they had some surimi that was so realistic, I thought it was actually shrimp. Boy was I mistaken. I like [kamaboko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamaboko), but it ain’t pretending to be anything but brightly colored highly processed fish molecules.

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**Author:** ![Mapache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@Mapache](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mapache)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-good-lobster-surimi/497693/3 "2009-05-26T22:06:23Z")

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Once in a while I find Lobster Surimi at Sam´s Club that tastes amazingly like the real thing. Probably it isn’t worth coming to Oaxaca just to visit Sam’s, and anyway they are usually out of the stuff.

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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-good-lobster-surimi/497693/4 "2009-05-26T22:19:20Z")

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Hey you can buy some [here](http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/103199424/Surimi_Lobster_Tail.html). Unfortunately, the minimum order is 22 tons, so if it turns out to taste shitty, you’re in for a lot of bad meals.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-good-lobster-surimi/497693/5 "2009-05-26T22:46:52Z")

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A friend of mine used to work at [Trans-Ocean Seafood](http://www.trans-ocean.com/products.html). I tasted the lobster once.

I’m not a fan of surimi, but Trans Ocean is pretty good.