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Ensenada shrimp

ArvadaGeorge - 2-14-2011 at 07:36 PM

I will be driving an RV with a trailer thru Ensenada the Friday 2-18 and I would like to buy a couple of kilos of shrimp. The Wal-Mart has a big lot. Do they have a decent seafood section?
Anyone have any other suggestions?

woody with a view - 2-14-2011 at 08:21 PM

do you know where the Black Market is? going north it is at the last red light before you exit downtown ensenada, on the ocean side. there is a pemex on the right after the light. pull in there and walk back to the mercado. GRANDE shrimps are about $8 kilo. many vendors.

make sure you smell the shrimp (in the bag. don't let the guy tie a knot in the bag!) before you pay. if it smells like bleach, or really fishy, go to the next vendor. there are about 6 guys selling shrimp, and 3 dozen others selling everything else that used to swim in the ocean.

DENNIS - 2-14-2011 at 08:22 PM

Either WalMart or ComMex, the Pelican Store, across the street has good looking shrimp. Has been frozen.
Stay far far away from the Black Market down by the water.

woody with a view - 2-14-2011 at 08:28 PM

cmon D. doesn't the ComMex just buy the outta date shrimp from the BM and freeze it?

jeremias - 2-14-2011 at 10:58 PM

Whats the deal with that Mercado Mariscos? I bought some "halibut" there for a barbq that although tasty and melted, my marine biologist friend didn't think it looked quite right. Is it all bogus fish?

bajaguy - 2-15-2011 at 06:41 AM

I second Dennis, stay away from the fish market It's greatto visit and look, not buy.......go to the Commercial Mexicana...or maybe try COSTCO. Plenty of parking

woody with a view - 2-15-2011 at 06:47 AM

why? more details.

bajaguy - 2-15-2011 at 06:51 AM

they display "good" fish, and sell you the crap

torch - 2-15-2011 at 07:57 AM

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Originally posted by bajaguy
they display "good" fish, and sell you the crap

That is what I've been told. If you do buy fish or shrimp there, do what Woody said make sure you smell the shrimp (in the bag. don't let the guy tie a knot in the bag!) before you pay. if it smells like bleach, or really fishy, go to the next vendor. there are about 6 guys selling shrimp, and 3 dozen others selling everything else that used to swim in the ocean.

[Edited on 2-15-2011 by torch]

mcfez - 2-15-2011 at 08:19 AM

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Originally posted by woody with a view
do you know where the Black Market is? going north it is at the last red light before you exit downtown ensenada, on the ocean side. there is a pemex on the right after the light. pull in there and walk back to the mercado. GRANDE shrimps are about $8 kilo. many vendors.

make sure you smell the shrimp (in the bag. don't let the guy tie a knot in the bag!) before you pay. if it smells like bleach, or really fishy, go to the next vendor. there are about 6 guys selling shrimp, and 3 dozen others selling everything else that used to swim in the ocean.

$8 kilo? Wow! Did the prices drop? I was paying 12-14 per k

[Edited on 2-15-2011 by mcfez]

LaloinBaja - 2-15-2011 at 08:37 AM

When I lived most of the year at Cabo Pulmo...(70's) We would run along side the shrimpers and tos a bundle of old Playboy magazines on board...Back would come back about 5 Kilos of fresh camarones....

DENNIS - 2-15-2011 at 08:55 AM

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Originally posted by torch
do what Woody said make sure you smell the shrimp (in the bag. don't let the guy tie a knot in the bag!) before you pay. if it smells like bleach, or really fishy, go to the next vendor.

If I ever find myself in a fish market where I have to give their product the smell test, I'll leave and go to McDonalds.
The Mercado Negro has screwed me for the last time. You have to closely watch the guy behind the counter so he doesn't throw a big chunk of bone into the bag before putting it on the scale. It's the perfect environment for "Bait 'n Switch." [get it?? Bait 'n Switch in a fish market?? Pretty good, huh. I crack myself up :lol:

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Anyway....it brings to mind an instance around twenty years back at a BBQ Chicken joint in town........you know, the whole chickens revolving around on a spit over a fire. I ordered a whole chicken to go and had the guy cut it up into regular pieces. By the time I got the bird home, it had lost half of it's breast and grown two additional wings.

OhhhLordy...waddya gonna do except boycott the place in the future. That's how I feel about the Black Market.

Martyman - 2-15-2011 at 09:17 AM

I have ordered grandes and get home with a few grandes but mostly medianos mixed in. I still go there but I'm watching

ligui - 2-15-2011 at 09:55 AM

Never had a problem at the fish market , got some really nice fresh grandes there the last trip thru .

durrelllrobert - 2-15-2011 at 10:56 AM

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also watch out for the small ones hidden under the grandes.

durrelllrobert - 2-15-2011 at 11:00 AM

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Originally posted by ArvadaGeorge
The Wal-Mart has a big lot. Do they have a decent seafood section?

Yes, Wal-mart has grandes but they are not cheap. Commercial Mexicana (pelican store) across the street has a big lot and better prices but they don't have shrimp larger than medios.

durrelllrobert - 2-15-2011 at 11:06 AM

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Originally posted by DENNIS

If I ever find myself in a fish market where I have to give their product the smell test, I'll leave and go to McDonalds.

if it smells like fish buy the lamb instead.

mcfez - 2-15-2011 at 03:12 PM

DENNIS ....
I always order the four winged chicken. :lol:

Great story dude!

Phil C - 2-15-2011 at 05:02 PM

160 to 170 pesos per kilo

woody with a view - 2-15-2011 at 08:03 PM

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GRANDE shrimps are about $8 kilo

i meant pound, i think......

lizard lips - 2-15-2011 at 08:12 PM

I have not been back to the Black Market for several years. Last time I was there I got into it with the shrimp guy who took the shrimp from the back of the display and they were a lot smaller. I told him I didn't want the back row and told him to take it from the front row. After he laughed at me I left.

They sell really ripe fish that will sit there for several days....

Want to get screwed? Go there.

woody with a view - 2-15-2011 at 08:15 PM

i have been burned there once, also. but the other 5-6 times, no problems. now i smell the shrimp and put in into ice immediately.

beachbum1A - 2-16-2011 at 07:54 AM

The Black Market's motto: "Let no fish go unsold".
They have been known to defrost/freeze their products many times over, using bleach to keep it smelling nice and "clean".
I made the mistake of buying some white seabass there one time. Took it right home and put it on the grill that night. It turned to mush! Have not gone back since then.....