Top water, bottom bashing, fast and slow, jigs do it all
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Hawnjigs
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Well, who knows, maybe the Poms ate to survive, and weren't particular about taste? My wife spent a month or few in an English boarding school as a young lady, and mentioned the food was the worst ever.
Are sambo so bad you can't even smoke em? Even the (insert Asian ethnicity) won't eat em? Sorry to flog this, but out my way anything can be prepared to taste good, even pufferfish.
The word kahawai exists in same root Hawaiian language. kah-hah-vai is a small stream typically in a valley used for water diversions into kalo(kah-loh) aka taro loi(loh-ee) which are submerged planting beds for this staple Hawaiian root crop.
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Are sambo so bad you can't even smoke em? Even the (insert Asian ethnicity) won't eat em? Sorry to flog this, but out my way anything can be prepared to taste good, even pufferfish.
The word kahawai exists in same root Hawaiian language. kah-hah-vai is a small stream typically in a valley used for water diversions into kalo(kah-loh) aka taro loi(loh-ee) which are submerged planting beds for this staple Hawaiian root crop.
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That's cool the connection between two polynesian culture's words.
Yep some people originally from places where any fish is a fish to be eaten (muddy water carp for dinner anyone?!?!) reckon you can eat em in a curry, but so many super potent herbs and spices and marinading and more is involved to mask ANY of the original flesh flavour I just don't see the point. And you know a fish is crook when even smoking ain't really worth it.
Yep some people originally from places where any fish is a fish to be eaten (muddy water carp for dinner anyone?!?!) reckon you can eat em in a curry, but so many super potent herbs and spices and marinading and more is involved to mask ANY of the original flesh flavour I just don't see the point. And you know a fish is crook when even smoking ain't really worth it.
I fish a creek that has more 10-15# carp that you can imagine. Caught one once & threw it back in and out of no where some asian woman came up cursing me in a language I didn't understand.
Her grandson was fishing down the way & explained that the carp I threw back in would feed their whole family & then some and apologized for her Grandmother. I gave them the next couple carp & they invited me for dinner. The way they prepared that fish was the best.
Guess anything soaked in garlic & chili oil, then fried tastes good.
Her grandson was fishing down the way & explained that the carp I threw back in would feed their whole family & then some and apologized for her Grandmother. I gave them the next couple carp & they invited me for dinner. The way they prepared that fish was the best.
Guess anything soaked in garlic & chili oil, then fried tastes good.
Bucho
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Carp is a traditional christmas dinner for many German families, mainly in the catholic south where it has a long tradition of being farmed in ponds by monks.
It is very sensitive to both water quality and fat which seems to contain the muddy aromes. The fish are usually harvestet in late autumn and then kept in clear water bassins without food until christmas. I remember bringing one home in th 8-10lbs range as a teenager - lets just say I prefer trout. Or curry.
It is very sensitive to both water quality and fat which seems to contain the muddy aromes. The fish are usually harvestet in late autumn and then kept in clear water bassins without food until christmas. I remember bringing one home in th 8-10lbs range as a teenager - lets just say I prefer trout. Or curry.
Hawnjigs
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Once(and only) a CA codger who looked like he ate more wild than Safeway showed me his bathtubs with carp(live) in em. Better'n catfish he said.
When Thai food was just starting to make an appearance in dine outs back in the 70's, a bud and I chanced a hole in the wall in a vintage area of Honolulu. We were surprised that the "Evil Jungle Fish" we ordered turned out to be dink cookie size local species of little esteem. In a red curry sauce, some of the best fish I have ever eaten, never equaled since.
When Thai food was just starting to make an appearance in dine outs back in the 70's, a bud and I chanced a hole in the wall in a vintage area of Honolulu. We were surprised that the "Evil Jungle Fish" we ordered turned out to be dink cookie size local species of little esteem. In a red curry sauce, some of the best fish I have ever eaten, never equaled since.
Hey Hookup have had same experience with false albacore (mackeral tuna here). Didn't get the invite to dinner though. That would have been cool. Seen the bathtub gig here too.
Hiya Buchu different folks different tastes but we have so many magic eating salty species it's easy to be a fish snob:blush:.
Hiya Buchu different folks different tastes but we have so many magic eating salty species it's easy to be a fish snob:blush:.