Parmice = Pseudopeneus prayensis = West African Goatfish

Have seen this in TESCO for a long time already but only bought it recently.

I have this habit of wikipedia-ing just about everything and I especially love to search up on these vague scientific names. And especially when I don't understand what sort of frozen fish are they selling in TESCO and they look oh-so-familiar.

When I bought this, it reminded me of the fish that Indian restaurants in Malaysia sell. All marinated in curry powder, chilli powder and all the various spices and then deep-fried to perfection! Yum! :-D So I thought maybe I could do the same with this..:-P

But I still needed to know if that was the right way of cooking for this fish and if there's any other ways to enjoy it. For this to happen, I need to know what the heck does 'parmice' means in English. Or 'Pseudopeneus prayensis'. Unfortunately this fish doesn't seem that popular in the cooking world....most search hits were about scientific cateloguing of this species....which almost guilt me.

Luckily, someone has gone thru what I had and posted it up! Ta-da! There's even a website with a video on how to cook this fish.  :-)

".....discovered they have white meat with delicate taste, as they were in a same family as red mullets. They are often eaten in curry or deep fried....."

Yay! Another item to be cooked Malaysian-style that you can find in the Czech TESCO near you!

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I haven't been really getting the mood to experiment much recipes and then I got braces...which further dampen my spirit on what I can enjoy eating. =___= But I have kind of adjusted to it now and I figured that I will try all these recipes and eat all I love a week before I need to see my orthodontist for adjustment of the wires. :-D

Japanese Food-curios

One of the most interesting thing about living with a person of different nationality is the food stuff their family sent. lol. Well, actually when I was living together with 2 of my Malaysian Indian friends, their food parcels were filled with loads of stuff that I haven't seen before. But it's a whole new experience when you don't exactly know what kind of food it is because it's written in Japanese. :-P And then come in my Japanese language translator --> Yumi! Once she says out the Japanese word, I'd know it....because my Japanese language is limited to its food items only. :-) She'd tell you the same too ;-P

There's a lot of food curios in our ladder. This is one; which Yumi 'cooked' after the Karaoke Night held by my class to raise money for the Graduates' Night --> It's some sort of tradition that 4th Years have to organise it for the 6th Years... ^_^

ODEN!

Japan's really amazing with all their extremely convenient packaging [you just dunk the bag in to a boiling pot of water!] and when you remove the content, it could really pass off as something you cook yourself! 

 See? It must be great to be a student in Japan...cramming for exams and still getting a semblance of real food as opposed to my poor diet of instant noodles during exam period. =_=

 There's fish cakes filled with something. An egg. Some sort of squid-ball lookalike [but it's not squid]. Konyakku. A ribbon of seaweed. A slice of daikon. I love the soup. It's actually really nice. Even Yumi was surprised. Only the egg was, well, doesn't taste like egg....

This is pickled radish that Yumi got from the Korean-Japanese shop in Prague.....I suppose only a Japanese @ Korean would pick this up....so I'd classify it under this. :-P Don't like this....a bit too sourish pickl-ish for me.