seafood~♥

If you ask my personal opinion, seafood especially fish and lobster are best eaten shashimi-ed (raw) for its freshness just like the Japanese do.You can actually taste the freshness of the sea so no wonder some bid for the highest price as early as 5:30am and as much as 440 pounds of tuna sold for USD220,000.00!

If restaurant starts recommending fried seafood to you, the chances are the seafood are not fresh anymore but if they suggest steamed dishes, then the seafood is still moderately fresh. In some fresh seafood restaurant, seafood from the tanks that are dead are sold for half the price!

The westerners and the asians prepare and cook their seafood differently depends where they stay. The westerners prefer fillets but the asians prefer theirs in steaks, cutlets or eaten together with their bones if the fish is small and save to eat as a whole.

The westerners hardly eat crabs or other shellfish except for prawns, shrimps and lobster. The asians love anything that is edible from the sea including the poisonous puffer (fugu) fish!

One of the secret in keeping fresh fish in your freezer, a tip from a fisherman, is after cleaning all the gills and innards of the LIVE fish , DON"T wash them in water, wrap them up in paper towel and ziplock bags which can keep them fresh for as long as 6 months!