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| Quote: | | Quote: | Originally posted by Bajatripper
Pretty easy to tell if they're real.
They have dirt and black slimy stuff around the perimeter. |
Surely you aren't being served scallops that way in a restaurant, are you? |
One of the reasons I don't order them in restaurants because they're never done the way I like them.
Buy mine fresh here in Loreto from some vendors.
Cut them to about 1/2 inch thickness, than saute them in butter with lost and lots of garlic, seasalt and coarse ground pepper, put them on a bolillo
and go to heaven.
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Hola elgatoloco, quite a story and the first time i have heard it from someone that has actually seen this practice.
over the years on short and long range boats, whenever we did catch a bat ray, the deckhands would always say to keep the rays and do the cookie
cutter thing. when we said no thanks, they would always release them. but, we would say " you keep it and do it " and they never did.
when in todos santos, we went to the beach where the commercial guys were cleaning fish and there were really big carcasses of what we thought were
manta rays ?
in la ribera, i exchanged lunches with the pangero and he had manta ray burritos. palatable but nothing to write home about.
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One of the reasons I don't order them in restaurants because they're never done the way I like them.
Buy mine fresh here in Loreto from some vendors.
Cut them to about 1/2 inch thickness, than saute them in butter with lost and lots of garlic, seasalt and coarse ground pepper, put them on a bolillo
and go to heaven. |
So, when's the party?
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Bought scallops in La Paz super markets and they were all bad. They were usually the diameter of a USA Silver Dollar, but had the texture of leather.
Stopped buying scallops in Baja.
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ok your probably getting callo de hacha and they aint very tender. they look like callo mano de leon which is what you want.
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Years ago at Mulege we caught a Humbolt Squid. It was about 60" and the nasty SOB really didn't want to join us in the boat. We took part of it (the
mantle) to El Patron. They beat the s*** out of it with a mallet and served it up with butter and garlic. I'll eat anything with butter and garlic.
The squid's tentacle suckers have teeth and they were ready for a fight for hours after the fish was dead.
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I could not tell you how many times I have seen "phoney
Abalone" in and around Ensenada eateries. Some of it is deliously prepared giant squid. In La Paz Machaca de
mantaraya has been quite popular with the locals for
decades. You just have to know your seafood. Buyer
beware as they say. But hey if it tastes good and the price is
right so what if it's faux.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
I don't mind substitute scallops or crab- I just don't like to pay for the real thing and not be getting it. |
Would it still bother you if you didn't know?
See, Woooosh? That's what I'm talking about. Never again will you be able to have a Scallop dinner without suspicion running through your mind.
Kinda detracts from the experience....doncha think?
Most here know this, but maybe some don't....the Angel Shark is what you get at most fish taco stands in town.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/gallery/descript/pacificangels... |
Hey Dennis...would it bother you to have sixx with a T-girl if you didn't know? Just saying... lol
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Hola, as the thread is going a bit off course, years ago, a friend and his family took me and my son to a fish taco stand near a beautiful church in
ensenada. the stand seemed like a permanent taqueria in a fairly wide sidewalk and was super busy with the locals and others. my friend said the fish
used was angel shark and the item used to fry it was lard. delicious !!!!
can any one give me explicit directions on how to get there with my location recollection ?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BAJA.DESERT.RAT
Hola, as the thread is going a bit off course, years ago, a friend and his family took me and my son to a fish taco stand near a beautiful church in
ensenada. the stand seemed like a permanent taqueria in a fairly wide sidewalk and was super busy with the locals and others. my friend said the fish
used was angel shark and the item used to fry it was lard. delicious !!!!
can any one give me explicit directions on how to get there with my location recollection ?
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I doubt the Marlin fish tacos I get at TJ Juniors are really Marlin... taste like tuna to me.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
I don't mind substitute scallops or crab- I just don't like to pay for the real thing and not be getting it. |
Would it still bother you if you didn't know?
See, Woooosh? That's what I'm talking about. Never again will you be able to have a Scallop dinner without suspicion running through your mind.
Kinda detracts from the experience....doncha think?
Most here know this, but maybe some don't....the Angel Shark is what you get at most fish taco stands in town.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/gallery/descript/pacificangels... |
Hey Dennis...would it bother you to have sixx with a T-girl if you didn't know? Just saying... lol |
In the dark?
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If you boat around those small islands off Santispac and Burro, you can often see piles of dozens of Bat Ray carcasses in the shallow water off the
small beaches. Cookie cuttered.
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you have to get dive scallops, or mano de leon. i like to wrap em with pancetta, sear them lightly in olive oil, make some couliflower puree with lots
of butter, and then drizzle some lemon olive oil on top.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Marc
What are the restaurants in Baja trying to pass off as sea scallops? Whatever they are serving is usually very good, but it ain't the real thing.
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sometimes pin clams are mis-translated and called "scallops"
and there are many types of scallops,... so perhaps you are eating a variety that is diff than you are accustomed to?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BAJA.DESERT.RAT
...years ago, a friend and his family took me and my son to a fish taco stand near a beautiful church in ensenada. the stand seemed like a permanent
taqueria in a fairly wide sidewalk and was super busy with the locals and others. my friend said the fish used was angel shark and the item used to
fry it was lard. delicious !!!!
can any one give me explicit directions on how to get there with my location recollection ? |
Possibly this
was Tacos Fenix on Espinoza at Juarez ? There's an often-photographed church a block+ away between Juarez and Sixth on Floresta.
Green arrow (which should appear) in the map below is Tacos Fenix. Church is to the right.
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Many species of "trash" fish are very tasty. People are just turned off by their names or appearance. Some require extra effort to clean and prepare,
but it's usually worth it.
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In Loreto often, when fish is in short supply, they use parrotfish in the tacos. Very tasty.
They do have a drawback though, when you clean them, they stink to hogheaven, enough to almost make you upchuck.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
In Loreto often, when fish is in short supply, they use parrotfish in the tacos. Very tasty.
They do have a drawback though, when you clean them, they stink to hogheaven, enough to almost make you upchuck. |
vandenberg beware of eating parrotfish, they are one species that is known to carry and transmit ciguatera.
That said, I have eaten them (before I knew about the ciguatera thing) and they were muy sabroso.
I didn't have the "stink" experience that you report. Maybe you should just clean the ones that haven't been lying around for a few weeks 
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So Abaj&Back is it reasonable to assume that the "Scallops" Rafael sells in town are Bat Ray? Doesn't make much differance, pound the heck out of
them, beer batter and fry, they are still pretty tasty.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
you have to get dive scallops, or mano de leon. i like to wrap em with pancetta, sear them lightly in olive oil, make some couliflower puree with lots
of butter, and then drizzle some lemon olive oil on top. |
Nice! Now that's a low-carb feast! (I just dropped 25 lbs and I am not gaining it back- this time, yeah right). I wrap them with smoked bacon because
I'm cheap and not Italian... lol I buy my scallops frozen in bags from CostCo. No one would dare sell the fakes NOB I hope.
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