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UNUSUAL FISH

Jellied eels

Fresh cooked eels in jelly sold from the bowl, or by the 8kg bowl. The 8kg bowl is

ideal for a Cockney evening.

Salmon heads

Especially used in the famous Malaysian salmon head curry.

Blue runners

From the USA, a very tasty white fish. Frozen whole fish.

Similar to Trevally jacks.

Wrasse

An attractive fish in many colours. Cleaned, head-on whole fish. Frozen.

Flying fish

Small, individually frozen flying fish, ready scaled, in 1kg bags.

Pomfret

Well known on the Indian subcontinent. Plaice-type fish, thick, firm flesh,

best eaten on the bone. Cleaned and frozen whole fish.

Espada

Long, thin fish -"espada" means "sword" in Portuguese. Little bone, lots of

meat. Fresh from Portugal, cleaned whole fish.

Carapau
A small fish prized by the Portuguese and cooked like sardines. Flown in

from Portugal. Cleaned. (Back to jacks )

Saltfish

In Spanish, bacalao, in Portuguese, bacalhau, in French, morue, in English,

saltfish. Salt fish is made from varieties of cod: cod, ling, saithe and tusk. It is

a dried and salted fish which retains all the good qualities of fresh fish – only

the water has been removed. Soak them out to make wonderfully soft fish cakes.

Traditionally eated in Spain, Portugal and the West Indies. Very fashionable.

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