Fish!!

New generation people! Do you know how to clean a fish?

Like cleaning the insides of a fish, pulling the guts out, scaling it, bla bla bla

So obvious I dont know right? LoL. I've seen my mum do it many many years ago. Here, I've seen my aunty do it, occasionally...

But I've never personally laid my hands on a whole fish to clean it >_<" eeek!

Usually the smell is enough to make me hold my breath. The sight of the insides is enough to make me turn my head away asap. And it's been a long time since I saw fish eyeballs, apart from chinese restaurants in Msia lah.. I still cant quite digest the fact that people actually eat those eyeballs... *bluergh*

Fish is never served whole here. It's usually fillet or pieces. Of course chinese (and some thai) restaurants will still serve you the whole fish. I guess its customary. Is it offensive if you serve chinese a fish without the head? Hmmm... I dont know. I'm not that chinese in terms of these kinda stuff >_< LoL

But seriously, I cannot clean a fish from scratch!!!

If I really really have to, you'll probably see me with hand gloves, eye and mouth mask, full body protective suit, standing 2 feets away from the fish with my hands stretched out. Hahaha. Actually, the chances of me handling a fish is very low :P Not just because I dont like the sight and smell of it, but also because I dont know how to. Hahaha.

Someone is going to slap me and make sure I learn to cook a whole fish >_<"

It's really convenient here you know. The "only" place you can get fish is the supermarket. No wet markets with market boots and fish mongers shouting the fish of the day :P The fish here are cleaned, and filleted, ready to be sold to customers. Or, they are placed there, and when bought, they will offer to clean and fillet it for you. How nice right? :P

Else, you can go to the wholesale fish market on sundays, which open at 4.30am if I'm not mistaken. And there, you can buy the whole fish - salmon, the huge mackeral, any fish. Then you have to clean it yourselves. LoL. They can slice it for you, but cleaning - DIY, madam.

Ahh... I like fish better than chicken or pork. Maybe I can only eat fish here if I have to cook it myself >_<" LoL