> Sajjad:
>
> A few years ago I served on the Board of a corporation headquartered
> about 100 km from Shanghai. Several times I had dinner at a rather
> elegant restaurant (well, rather elegant for that part of the world) where
> one of the specialties was live fishes. They were brought to the table
> live, and one had the choice of dipping them into boiling highly seasoned
> broth or boiling oil. While they certainly were tasty, dipping the
wriggling
> creatures into a boiling cauldron was a bit of a turn-off. For me, at
least.
>
> On my last visit, I asked the waiter if I could take a couple of the
fishes
> with me, and of course the restaurant obliged by putting them into a
> small styrofoam container of water - about 1 - 1= liter, I estimate.
> A few days later I flew from Shanghai to Narita (Tokyo) to Los Angeles,
> carrying the container of fishes with me all the way home. I had a bit of
> a "conversation" with the nice customs people at LAX, but managed to
> convince them the fishes were not on the proscribed list - birds,
feathers,
> live animals, meat, seeds, etc. (!) They survived for a couple of years
> in a 10 gal. aquarium here in Santa Barbara, but finally expired. They
> sure were an interesting curiosity while I had them. From the photos
> I've seen of snakeheads...and those at
> http://nas.er.usgs.gov/fishes/accounts/channida/ch_stria.html...
> I suspect they were either C. striatta or a closely related species.
>
> Bob Sinclair
> Santa Barbara CA
>
> * * * * *
>
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:01:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Sajjad Lateef <sajjadlateef_at_yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- NYTimes - now snakehead...yet again!
>
> Anyone know if these snakeheads were Channa murrel
> (the striated snakehead)?
>
> I've eaten C. murrel in India. They are considered
> a delicacy and are expensive.
>
>
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> Sajjad Lateef
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