Arowana As Dish
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uting;2806005; said:
I'd imagine that most of the aros caught in South America are sold at the local fish markets or taken home for dinner, not sold to the pet industry.
I'f you've ever been down there, you'd know that most of the people living along rivers are really poor and could care less about pet fish...having food at the table is probably a little more important.
VVateverzYo;2806581; said:
Yuck, catfish tastes like dirt usually and I can only eat them fried.
Not the catfish I get from the supermarket,most tastiest fish I ever had,fried or broiled.I was prepared to be turned off by the pictures when I opened this thread but then I remembered that down in jungles where these fish originate from they are eaten by the natives along with pirahnas arapaimas and other fish we like to keep as pets.exoticfishguy;2806998; said:
ctoychik;2805863; said:I am not aware of any farm in Asia that grow aros for food. There are Asian Aro farms - but these are not for food. There are farms for silver aros (i believe), but not for food either - wayyyyy more valueable as a pet than food
PS: i believe the aros have a lot of bones so not that good to eat - now bara is something else
My old man has a childhood school mate who owns a asian arowana farm in my home town that breeds silvers for the local market and the owner has been experimenting with making salted dried fish out of these silvers. I have seen it in a few of the local shops.. its just the body only so to the unsuspected customer it looks like a locally dried catfish of a similar tail shape.
TSN and RTC are both food fish down there. Clown Knifefish are eaten as fish balls. Polys are thought as delicacies. Giant gourmis are fried up and eaten in thailand. Almost all pet fish we keep are food somewhere else.
Those are just tiddlers, I can imagine a 3'+ one would be better eating. They are caught for food by the native Indians in South America after all. I could never eat one I'd raised as a pet, but if it was just a random fish caught out of a pond or river I can't see any difference to eating nay other fish.
You're Asian?! I always thought you were a pom...
Lupin;2805861; said:despite me being an Asian.
You're Asian?! I always thought you were a pom...
I would try it. We(americans) eat fish that we also keep as pets in tanks. Don't see a difference here at all.
Now the last pic looks nasty, is that it's eye.
Now the last pic looks nasty, is that it's eye.
