One of the best fish I have ever tasted. But some of them stink when you clean them ...and I mean stink!
Has anyone eaten a Aquarium fish?
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I’ve seen a couple Korean fish markets, all large….but yeah I’m not sure if the pallet oversees is just wider, or the fishing regulations are looser but in any event the market represents pretty much the entire ocean food chain… Its a site regardless
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So I had these total jerk damsels once. I noticed they were about the exact size of a Ritz cracker one day and I had a fresh lemon in the fridge. I don't miss them.
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yeah always knew BIOTA was overcharging for their “Farm Raised Tang” and calling it “Aquacultured” …. be cheaper to eat em at the caviar prices, gheez all in the marketing I guess.Tastes like chicken.
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I’ve had California scorpion fish, it’s really soft and flaky. They eat queen trigger fish all day long down in Mexico
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It was alright...like any other whitefish...I haven't eaten enough fish to know the subtle differences...down the hatch to quiet that growling belly!Funny whats a collectors item in one part of the world is food in another…I think part of what saved both the american crocodile and gator is its taste, no restaurant wants gator on CITES anymore …
- So what does tang taste like, I’d bet scaled it looks a lot like Crappie he he
-I’ve seen myriads of pictures from S.America with discus and many cichlids, catfish et…They say Discus is tasty …. Another tropical crappie IMPO
- I’d wager panther grouper and Marine Betta is tasty
Moray eel ?
Anyone else been to a true Vietnamese or Philippine seafood market or any fish market in the tropics?
I've had the native fare when in the bush or on the boat collecting fish...too many types that will make many "Westerners" cringe
I remember an early TFH publication with an Amazonian aboriginal with a beautiful discus in their mouth when I was in HS...made me cringe and thought of how much that would be in the LFS...lol!
In HK back in 1997, I bought about 15 tortoises from the food market. They were shocked that I wanted them live. took them back for my great aunt, who was a vegetarian, to care for them.
There were bowls of marine cats, rather the front half, still alive in metal bowls. There were are also restaurants where there in the foyer is a wall of aquariums with various fish and crustaceons, many of which we see in FOWLR systems and on the bottom row were vats jammed packed with mantis shrimp....point to what you want to eat!
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I am old enough to remember when, in California, you could buy a Gharibaldi Perch for your (hopefully large) tank, and on the way home pick one up "dressed for dinner" from the local fish monger. It's been illegal to catch, sell or keep them for many years.
Tang is supposed to be delicious! I would eat one in Hawaii but would never eat a pet-store tang. They are potentially exposed to copper and antibiotics and fed pellets and dirty tanks and gross. It’s not the same.
That’s just gross. Fish in a dirty tank eating pellets, maybe exposed to copper or antibiotics though the chain and then dying to perhaps disease or what not…
Fresh or frozen fish from the ocean is one thing but that is just gross!!!!
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I've never had tang myself, but I've had a handful of other common hobby/aquarium fish.It was alright...like any other whitefish...I haven't eaten enough fish to know the subtle differences...down the hatch to quiet that growling belly!
I've had the native fare when in the bush or on the boat collecting fish...too many types that will make many "Westerners" cringe
I remember an early TFH publication with an Amazonian aboriginal with a beautiful discus in their mouth when I was in HS...made me cringe and thought of how much that would be in the LFS...lol!
In HK back in 1997, I bought about 15 tortoises from the food market. They were shocked that I wanted them live. took them back for my great aunt, who was a vegetarian, to care for them.
There were bowls of marine cats, rather the front half, still alive in metal bowls. There were are also restaurants where there in the foyer is a wall of aquariums with various fish and crustaceons, many of which we see in FOWLR systems and on the bottom row were vats jammed packed with mantis shrimp....point to what you want to eat!
It generally comes down to both money and what's culturally acceptable. Tangs that cost well over $100 (or $400) in US and UK LFS are available in abundance in local waters in the tropics around the world. So people eat them. Regardless of taste, people in the U.S. aren't going to pay what amounts to about $400+ per pound (rough estimate, but likely more if you're talking about meat alone from tangs) to eat fish like town that is comparable in taste/texture to the white fish that's locally available for $15/20 per pound. Outside of the hobby, nobody would really care that it's a tang if it's filleted or bits of white fish on their plate.
Some of it is cultural though. There's a ton of fishing here and a lot of what's caught locally is shipped abroad as there's no local market for it. Hagfish is a lucrative catch in Maine, but most Americans would consider it gross and it's shipped to Korea and Japan where it's a delicacy. Some fish here in New England, like Skate and Dogfish, are actually excellent, but they've always been "nuisances" and "throwaway fish," so most people pay more for other varieties just because that's what they've always done. Oh, and monkfish? It's on a bunch of menus (and it's delicious), but most people don't know what it looks like and that's probably a good thing.
At the restaurant “Marcus” in Bermuda they serve lion fish. They catch them on the reef since they are invasive. I have had them fried whole and in Tacos. It’s honestly a delicious white fish meat. I get it anytime I am there in its on the menu
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