Fish, As Food
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him to fish and he will sit in his boat drinking beer all day. When you do not know what else to eat and wanted a simple yet healthy meal, go for fish soup or fish porridge. There are some very popular stalls at Newton, Toa Payoh, Whampoa, Queenstreet, Amoy Street and you can even find good ones in the heartlands and the best fish to me is still the Batang fish (or Spanish Mackerel). It has no fishy smell, is sweet and juicy with a great texture but they are costly, easily fetching from $5 to $8 a bowl. Not only that. You won't get big chunky slices no matter how generous the hawkers. Fisherman by profession is a tough life. You may think they get lots of dough for their catch but they offload them to wholesalers for auction and then they got to the market. It's not like they can get Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods to do the adverts and pay huge amount, thankfully no. Therefore, a better way is to get your own fi...