Comments on: Common & Uncommon Market Finds… https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/common-uncommon-market-finds A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ludwig https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/common-uncommon-market-finds#comment-302152 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:13:47 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=12317#comment-302152 About the stingrays… Okay, first of all, I live in Tagbilaran City. My family is in government service. And, yes, it is illegal to catch, kill, and sell rays. The reason why people still do these things is because they’re still very popular among local customers. As for why, I don’t know. I run a campaign against eating endangered/protected species, but some people are just utterly incorrigible. Sad, but true. When will they realise?

]]> By: Grace https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/common-uncommon-market-finds#comment-266080 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:16:29 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=12317#comment-266080 _To all sugpo and alimango lovers_
Looking for crabs and prawns buyer/s!!
We will harvest this coming November, so anyone interested please contact this number.
0918-5019674/0906-1639990
Our small fishpond is located at Sorsogon City.
We will deliver the seafood here in Metro Manila.
Thank you!

]]> By: zippo https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/common-uncommon-market-finds#comment-251968 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:00:44 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=12317#comment-251968 The best find in Bohol is TUYOM. It’s a fermented type of bagoong made exclusively from Sea Urchin Roe.

Delish.

Try cooking pinakbet with this. Unforgettable!

]]> By: Libay https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/common-uncommon-market-finds#comment-249163 Tue, 25 May 2010 01:48:10 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=12317#comment-249163 MM, here’s a site that can provide you the common name. english name and scientific name of almost all of the commercially important species in the Philippines: http://www.fishbase.org

]]> By: wil-b https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/common-uncommon-market-finds#comment-249016 Mon, 24 May 2010 03:30:49 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=12317#comment-249016 awww. . . Mantas are such amazing creatures, I’ve been diving in Maldives, and after the first time i saw manta rays, it felt like my next dives aren’t complete if i don’t see one again, or a lot. . . It’s just so good to watch them whirl around the coral reefs swimming just inches beside you. . . . really really amazing. I’ts sad to see that they still catch these creatures illegally.

]]> By: Tuna Chaser https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/common-uncommon-market-finds#comment-248912 Sun, 23 May 2010 11:11:25 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=12317#comment-248912 By: Tuna Chaser https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/common-uncommon-market-finds#comment-248910 Sun, 23 May 2010 11:10:09 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=12317#comment-248910 re the pic of the “Lizard Fish”. Here in Australia they are called Flathead and come in a variety of species. The ones in your pic look similar to what we call Dusky or River Flathead. This speceis in my State now have size regulaions of take put on them i.e minimum and maximum sizes to protect breeding. They are a popular recreational catch and caught by several methods of line fishing. Other types of flathead here are not so tightly regulated such as the different trawl caught species and ” sand flathead “. Most are delicious eating when fresh caught .
Surprising how many varieties of fish are similar to those in AUstralian waters.

]]> By: garret https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/common-uncommon-market-finds#comment-248756 Sat, 22 May 2010 12:10:59 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=12317#comment-248756 Great post. Too bad most of these will be gone in 50 years. I wonder how much of these were caught using dynamite or cyanide.

]]> By: quiapo https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/common-uncommon-market-finds#comment-248727 Sat, 22 May 2010 05:29:30 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=12317#comment-248727 The lizard fish looks very similar to” flathead” – a popular and tasty fish in Australia. Ray flaps are freely sold here, so it mustn’t ba an endangered species at least in
Australia.

]]> By: Jack Hammer https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/common-uncommon-market-finds#comment-248602 Fri, 21 May 2010 09:02:16 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=12317#comment-248602 @globalnomad … what I do is cut the very tip of the head with a knife and with my thumbnail just peel a tiny bit of the skin back…then I take a cotton cloth grip the tiny bit of skin firmly with my fingers and the whole skin peels off in one go along with the scales. Repeat the same procedure with the other side. Since as you say they are the cheapest, Practice makes Perfect. And they are delicious to boot.

The ones we get in India and the Middle East are actually tonguefish soles, which I also saw on an Hong Kong official fisheries website. Always try to get the biggest ones they are most fleshiest of course.

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