Don Pisto
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anyone eating pufferfish?
no not Fugu sashimi but simple breaded and fried Globo. yesterday in our rosarito fish market I was surprised to see stacks of puffers they were
calling "pollito del mar", a east coast name that I believe came from looking like a chicken drumstick when skinned and de-poisoned. a quick search
revealed many people find this to be one of the best eating reef fish there is, who knew? this is a very legit market and im sure these fish have been
made safe to eat, at 99/p a kilo might give it a try!
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David K
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Some suspect we lost the a wonderful human, Pancho of San Rafael, from his eating one???
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RFClark
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“Those who eat fugu soup are stupid. But those who don’t eat fugu soup are also stupid.“
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BAJA.DESERT.RAT
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Hola,
seems kinda dangerous to me.
in japan, the fugu chefs are specially trained to prepare this delicacy, but people do still die from it.
if they are selling it in the fish market in mexico, i guess we'll just WAIT AND SEE !
BIEN SALUD,
DA RAT
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hombre66
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Thats like, $2.50 a lb? (Rock cod in my Oregon coast village is $18 lb.)
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About 30 years ago a sushi chef in La Jolla, CA died from it, and he was a "pro." Just sayin...
A life of fears leads to a death bed of regrets.
Find someone who will take care of you, and take care of them.
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According to him, he didn't eat fish and of all the times I was there eating fish, he never partook and all I offered was halibut.
Replace puffer fish for tequila and I think we have our culprit.
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vandy
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Botete are great!
On the eastern US coast it's called "sea squab".
I've had many bullseye puffer fish in Baja.
Doesn't taste like chicken,
but the shape of the meat is right.
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BornFisher
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Hola Don-- I`m wondering where is the Rosarito fish market? Don`t think I`ll try puffer, but might be interested in shrimp, WSB, halibut, swordfish,
reds or ??? thanks.
"When you catch a fish, you open the door of happiness."
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Don Pisto
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Quote: Originally posted by BornFisher  | | Hola Don-- I`m wondering where is the Rosarito fish market? Don`t think I`ll try puffer, but might be interested in shrimp, WSB, halibut, swordfish,
reds or ??? thanks. |
directly across from the Corona hotel, blue building called La Playa fish market, same outfit as the large tijuana 6th street market
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i went out for a day on the water on Conception Bay. My friend paid for a guide to take us out there. I think his name was Daniel. We were out
spearfishing for Triggerfish for lunch but i could not get one. Daniel went out and came back with three large Pufferfish. He said they were "great
eating". He made two small cuts behind it's head and pushed out two strips. Who needs to be an Japanese chef he said.
We did not want to eat the stew he made for us. He ate first, we waited, he did not drop dead so we all dug in. It was actually really good but i
don't think i will eat Pufferfish again.
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BornFisher
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| Quote: Originally posted by Don Pisto | | Quote: Originally posted by BornFisher | | Hola Don-- I`m wondering where is the Rosarito fish market? Don`t think I`ll try puffer, but might be interested in shrimp, WSB, halibut, swordfish,
reds or ??? thanks. |
directly across from the Corona hotel, blue building called La Playa fish market, same outfit as the large tijuana 6th street market
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Thanks. I`ll have to check that out. I usually catch enough fish to eat and buy shrimp at Popotla. But I don`t get many halibut and no WSB where I
fish (off a cliff with a rocky/sandy mix).
"When you catch a fish, you open the door of happiness."
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Don Jorge
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Surprising to me is the fact puffer fish is commercially fished here in the Puerto San Carlos/Puerto Chale area.
Currently it is worth 70 pesos a kilo for the "troncha" which is basically the gutted fish body only. It is distributed throughout Mexico especially
to DF and Guadalajara.
I have never and will never sample it as a food item. I liked the puffer fish best as lamps crafted by the Prieto family of Bahia de Los Angeles back
in the 70s and 80s.
�And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry
years. It was always that way.�― John Steinbeck
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Skipjack Joe
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They say the liver is the first to go ....
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Botete is the one we eat, called the bullseye puffer fish,
NOT the spiny puffer or any other variety.
Slice it down the back, snip the backbone by head and tail,
lift out the meat and backbone,
leave the poisonous guts and skin.
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C205Driver
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My Filipina wife has eaten lots of them & still alive…..
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bajarich
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There's and old saying: "There are many other fish in the sea"
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East Coast 'blowfish" are a different variety and do NOT carry the toxin and are completely safe to eat ...the Pacific variety a simply aquatic
Russian roulette!!
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