Taiwan Trip 07 : Fish Market... Ocean Sunfish

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here is a pix of an ocean sunfish


mola_mola.jpg
 
Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!! That is disgusting! If there's one thing I can't stand...it's being stared at while I eat.....
 
Must be a lot of blind sunfish out there, LOL. That's just terrible :(.
 
Thought they were endangered but after checking guess not. Found this though..

"COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE and EDIBILITY

While unpopular in Europe and the United States, molas are eaten throughout Asia. Taiwan and Japan are the largest markets. All parts of the mola are eaten including the skin, fin muscles, backbone, testes, and gut which is viewed as a delicacy. In Taiwan, the gut is served as "Dragon Intestines."

Unlike their pufferfish relatives, e.g. Fugu, molas do not carry the deadly neurotoxin, tetratrodotoxin (Saito et al 1991). "

What is it with the testes...
 
i have seen many many sun fish off the coast of california and northern baja !!!!!!!!!!! very cool fish.........the rest of the fish is kind of mushy ...so i have neen told








cichlaguapote;734395; said:
Thought they were endangered but after checking guess not. Found this though..

"COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE and EDIBILITY

While unpopular in Europe and the United States, molas are eaten throughout Asia. Taiwan and Japan are the largest markets. All parts of the mola are eaten including the skin, fin muscles, backbone, testes, and gut which is viewed as a delicacy. In Taiwan, the gut is served as "Dragon Intestines."

Unlike their pufferfish relatives, e.g. Fugu, molas do not carry the deadly neurotoxin, tetratrodotoxin (Saito et al 1991). "

What is it with the testes...
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When I was younger my grandma always wanted me to eat the fish eyes during meals, I think that its an old asian myth of some sort that it helps makes you smarter or improves your memory.

ummm guess it didnt work...LOL
 
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