Something is fishy here...

Once or twice a month, we used to go to an Asian market in Miami. A competitor with a much larger store opened about a mile from the first one. They have better selections and we started going there. Now that I'm more than 40 miles away, with no other reason to go to Miami, we skipped those hour-long trips each way.
Today we visited another store (by the same owner) in Fort Lauderdale. It's less distance but it takes longer driving through city streets and not highway like the Miami trip. The selections are the same and this trip we got a fish that looks like something of pre-historic origin that Jacques Cousteau would have brought up from the deep ocean floor.
Nearly 3 feet long like an eel, it was coiled up in the bag.

I'll know in an hour or so if it was worth the trip!

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I won't do that again!
Just looking at those eyes, i would not eat it. laugh
You must be starving to eat that!barf
Probably not a lot of meat, and a whole lot of small bones.
young barracuda
@ Chat~ wave - ..... When I was a teen I used to work on a fishing trawler and that fish that you have there is called Hake, we used to get heaps of them off the 200 fathom line..... Just watch out for those teeth.

Hake belong to the cod family....

grin cheers
@ GG - wave .... I don't suppose they sell BATfish there as well?..... wow

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You don't really know what you missed, Chatillion! tongue

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I will take my Giant to a Beach City when he visit me here, so he can enjoy as many kinds of fish and seafoods as possible. And that fish is on the list. head banger cheering
Hans ~ There was an article in one of our Irish papers showing photos of skinned bats all lined in rows at a wet market in China just as if it never happened. There was also a very scary photo of beautiful white cats in cages, for sale as meat.
It defies all logic and when you think of the snakes too, and even rats. Nature is fighting back with virus s.
Just my opinion.
The hygeine was awful, no gloves either. I despair of china and factory farming too in the West.
Kal, I don't think I missed anything.
The flavor was better the next day and the meat came away from the bones.
Small chunks of the fish became toppings on my salad.
I would be terrified to try and cook that eel but my D-i-L would jump on it and probably make it taste good. She has introduced me to more foods than I ever knew existed and if anything she eats has a seed she plants and grows it. Chinese don't waste anything. Lord I love her and most of her cooking even when I have no clue what I'm eating. She loves seafood the most which is actually my least favorite but I'm learning. I can't begin to tell you how much stuff I have bought in Asian markets that I have no clue what it is. I learned I do not like black rice or seaweed squares that are like paper thin. Probably because I don't know how to cook it. I have however tasted many fruits and veggies I didn't know anything about and yet found them to be delicious.

Lucky you. I just downloaded an app "Duolingo" and am trying to learn Chinese (I hope it is Mandarin)
Her dialect could be Cantonese if she is from the South part of China.
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