#64540 - 04/25/02 01:28 PM
Re: fish eyes/tapioca
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 03/06/02
Posts: 1692
Loc: UK
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I looked up a reference to whitebait (they are about 1.5", or 40mm, long from nose to tail), and it suggests that they are the fry of herring or sprat, so I guess they use more than one fish, perhaps in different parts of the world.
If they are fry then that does'nt do much to help reduce the overfishing problem, does it. Maybe I should stop eating them on principle.....mmmm.....maybe not.
dxb
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#64541 - 04/27/02 03:29 AM
Re: fish eyes/tapioca
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/09/00
Posts: 3065
Loc: Jakarta
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The small fish eaten fried with peanuts are called teri in Indonesian. Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia defines teri as "A very small edible sea fish classified into the genus Stolephorus". Googling teri and stolephorus led me to this site: http://makeashorterlink.com/?P333514C, which gives different names for the fish in different languages. The home page for the site, which seems to be devoted to ichthyological nomenclature in different languages is http://www.fishbase.org/search.cfm. The dish is called teri kacang, googling which will lead you to recipes for those so inclined. Bingley
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#64542 - 04/27/02 08:22 AM
Re: fish eyes/tapioca
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/30/01
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My daughter and I went to a Korean buffet where tiny, somewhat salty, crunchy fish were served. It reminded me of eating friend shrimp tails. Have no idea what they were called, but they were very good in small quantity.
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#64544 - 04/29/02 10:49 AM
Re: fish eyes/tapioca
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 01/18/01
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Sounds like a way to lose friends.
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#64545 - 04/29/02 04:49 PM
Re: shrimp tails
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/30/01
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eating friend shrimp tails
Edit: Read: fried That's a classic typo up there, huh?
Eewww! Is that legal?
My dad has raised me in a strange way. It has been his delight to introduce me to all kinds of things I would never have tried on my own. And he started this when I was still a babe in arms--not shrimp tails then, but sardines and fried oysters. We worked up--or down--to shrimp tails. Actually, friend shrimp tails have more intense flavor by far than the shrimp itself. There's a succulence in them combined with a bit of sweetness that makes them interesting. They're at least as good--if not better flavor-wise--as those tiny fried Korean fried fish, which I still wish I knew the name of. Please excuse the preposition at the end of the sentence that preceded this one.
Beast regards,
Wordwisp
PS: My dad, who is a big joker, said he acquired his taste for all unusual food when a child. He says that the family was so big that all he got from the chicken were the bones. Faulkner would have understood.
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#64547 - 04/30/02 10:55 AM
Re: shrimp tails
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 01/18/01
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I usually find shrimp tasteless. I avoid sushi, having seen cases of nasty parasitic disease from raw fish.
But when out scalloping in Buzzards Bay the raw scallop muscle on buttered bread used to be delicious, pleasantly sweet, with just the right amount of salt from the sea water, and an enjoyable texture.
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#64548 - 05/04/02 06:06 AM
Re: shrimp tails
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/30/01
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Faldage can't resist:
That's a classic typo up there, huh?
And repeated later in the post?
friend shrimp tails have more intense flavor
...I will stay in from recess and type one thousand times:
fried shrimp tails
fried shrimp tails
fried shrimp tails
fried shrimp tails...
...and hope that we won't have a speed test today in typing class that includes the phrase fried shrimp tails!!!!
Bemoaning regrets,
WordWrecker
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