China restaurant forks out $75,000 for lucky fish

[amato]

China restaurant forks out $75,000 for lucky fish


A Chinese restaurant has paid $75,000 for a giant golden-coloured tiger fish, a symbol of wealth and good fortune.

China News Service said this tiger fish was caught on Sunday off the coast of Zhanjiang, in the southern province of Guangdog, China. It weighs about 48 kg (105 lb). It is about 1.75 meters long (5.8 feet) and its scales shine like gold.

The restaurant that is displaying this fish at the moment paid 580,000 Yuans (US$75,050), initially it was offered a price of 800,000 Yuan (US$103,500) but then it bargained down to its sold price. A similar thing happened three years ago, a tiger fish was caught at that time, but this tiger fish was paid three times the price for the older one.

It is about to be cooked soon, will be sold to diners at about 2000 Yuan (US$277) per kg, even though the restaurant paid about 12,000 Yuan (US$1552) per kg. They call this "Golden Cash Tiger Fish" in Chinese, therestaurant doesn't mind the loss, it thinks that the fish will bring lots of good luck to the restaurant.

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

krazee...to bad its dead!

 

[unknownuza13]

I wonder how much they would pay for the Golden Barramundi

 

[cichlaguapote]

I'm just amazed no one here owns one of those yet..

 

[M|L]

wtf is it?

 

[redtailfool]

It has to be a saltwater fish ... The article mentioned that its common name is a Tiger Fish .

 

[DiXoN]

i hear Li has just ordered 3 albino short bodys at $1000 per kilo

 

[Red Devil]

It seems kind of sad that a fish reaches this enormous size only to be served as food.. you just have to wonder how much bigger it would have become.. and what a proud awesome monster it had been...

 

[Jesse]

They call this "Golden Cash Tiger Fish" in Chinese.

WTF? Why do Chinese come up with the lamest common names? As a bilingual Chinese-American, I've always thought Chinese has the worst common names of any language. Why are giant salamanders and crocodiles considered fish ("yu") in Chinese? Someone needs to teach basic taxonomy to 1.2 billion people.

 

[ewurm]

It looks like a huge LMB.