I Made Lunch for Sharks, Rays, and Seahorses at the Seattle Aquarium | Kenji’s Cooking Show

Hey folks!

I've been taking my kids to the ‪@seattleaquarium‬ a couple times a month ever since moving to Seattle a few years back. It's an amazing facility doing really important conservation and education work. For the past couple years, we've been following along on the construction of the Ocean Pavillion, the aquarium's new expansion across the street, watching as they poured the foundations, extended the new overpass to the market, added brand new walking and bike paths, and finally built the 500,000 gallon centerpiece tank that would soon house a host of creatures native to the Indo-Pacific.

Then, a few months back, the folks at the aquarium reached out to me and asked if I'd be curious to see how the animal care team prepares food and feeds the fish at the Animal Care Center. It's an entire offsite aquarium in a gigantic warehouse where creatures are reared and nurtured until they're ready to move into their new home at the Ocean Pavilion.

Not only did I get a chance to see how they operate, I got to join the ‪@seattleaquarium‬ aquarists in the prep kitchen, preparing and feeding Indo-Pacific leopard sharks, spotted eagle rays (who boop you with their snoots like little puppy dogs), seahorses, a bowmouth guitarfish, and more.

I'll see you around the Ocean Pavilion when it opens. Meanwhile, if you want to support the Aquarium too, head to: https://www.seattleaquarium.org/onefu...


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