Re: NANFA-- RE: nanfa V1 #1394 - Eating Snakeheads

William Hoppe (whoppe_at_leadhill.net)
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:37:16 -0500

Im deeply concerned about the safety factor because the Brits eat them while
nude you know .
Bill Hoppe
Yellville Arkansas
A gathering of fish heads --its smelly but fun.
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Hoppe" <whoppe_at_leadhill.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- RE: nanfa V1 #1394 - Eating Snakeheads

> Do they splash much ?
> Bill Hoppe
> Yellville Arkansas
> A gathering of fish heads --its smelly but fun.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Sinclair" <rjs_at_silcom.com>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 6:09 PM
> Subject: NANFA-- RE: nanfa V1 #1394 - Eating Snakeheads
>
>
> > 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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