Archive for the ‘Tasty Seafood’ Category

REAL TOFU   Leave a comment

CLICK HERE for YouTube video (2 mins HD)

Posted April 26, 2012 by fathomTaiwan in Health food

RIPE PEE-PA (LOQUAT FRUIT), DURIAN   Leave a comment

http://www.facebook.com/v/10150642028365060 CLICK ABOVE LINK – Short Video YanPing Road was the original fashionable place to shop – starting from ChangAn Road West where there is a Five Ways of intersecting streets (a good roast duck shop and across the road, fresh orange juice  500 ml for NT$50). Walking north on YanPing Road (east side) found [...]

Posted April 11, 2012 by fathomTaiwan in Health food

KAOHSIUNG TODAY – CIJIN ISLAND WATERFRONT   Leave a comment

  Cijin Island pier (from the other side) – view you will see on the return journey. (click any picture  to enlarge it). CLICK ME – to play 2 minute video

JAPANESE SEAFOOD   Leave a comment

REPLICA JAPANESE FOOD <Click to play my short video This is the real thing.

Posted March 17, 2012 by fathomTaiwan in Tasty Seafood

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RETURN TO CIJIN ISLAND – FISH DISH NUMBER 7   Leave a comment

CLICK ME TO PLAY – Parrot in chains http://www.facebook.com/v/10150606061660060 CLICK ME TO PLAY VIDEO Do not order fish with a sauce all over it. At a different eating house – clams plus Mangrove Jack BBQ’d NT $350 for the fish  NT $100 for clams. Australian friends on Facebook, who live in the country, are shocked  [...]

SHARK FIN SOUP 2012   Leave a comment

Making anything illegal will greatly increase popularity and price. (Use the search function to view earlier posts about Shark Fin Soup in Taiwan). Mis-information galore every week is floating around.  On You Tube  an 18 year-old shark fan in Australia voiced concerns for saving all sharks everywhere. Meanwhile two shark bites occurred on swimmers in [...]

Posted January 20, 2012 by fathomTaiwan in Marine Subjects, Tasty Seafood

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SEAFOOD IN CARVED MARBLE   Leave a comment

Posted November 18, 2011 by fathomTaiwan in Taiwan Museums, Tasty Seafood

CHEAP EATS   Leave a comment

We don’t see cooked soy beans for sale in Australia.  These have chili and maybe garlic on the outside of the pods (which I presume, are not eaten). Shell them as with peas, chewy.  Not too bad.  Very cheap food. Compliment these with fresh prawns and a stick or loaf of French-style bread – all [...]

Posted November 18, 2011 by fathomTaiwan in Health food, How to Save Money

SYDNEY ROCK OYSTERS   Leave a comment

These oysters in the shell are from the seaside village of Wooli (pronounced wool-eye) on the mid north coast of New South Wales. Purchased at a seafood outlet.  Restaurant prices would be double. They should be the best quality in the state.  Absolutely no pollution in the Wooli River.  (No industry or agriculture upstream, just [...]

BEST AUSTRALIAN LOBSTER   Leave a comment

The Eastern Rock Lobster is found only in the state of New South Wales.  In my opinion it’s the best Australian lobster of all.  Originally called crayfish, the name was changed to rock lobster to help exports. Australian rock lobster do not have ‘nippers’ as per Atlantic Ocean lobster. Fishermen keep the larger specimens (which [...]