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Unlike their tentacled brethren, dried fish snacks aren't typically used in cooking. You'll find them similarly packaged, though—chewy, wrinkled straw-shaped strips that taste like sweet smoked sole. That said, they're not simply dehydrated fish; the meat is typically blended with spices and taro root, baked into thin sheets, and then shredded and packaged.
Dried squid has long been integral to the cuisines of coastal Asian, where it remains a popular method of preserving seafood and delivering concentrated flavors to soups and stews.