Buying fish in Singapore

[Wd40]

I recently restarted eating meat after like 15 years, thanks to my health screening results of low vitamin B12 and D, which is common among vegetarians
I am like instead of taking supplements which anyways contain fish oil etc, I might as well eat the real thing.

My wife can cook fish. So I went to the wet market in Taman Jurong to buy fish and since we are not experts we are sticking to just pomfret, we tried sea bas but my daughter finds it too soft and insists we only buy pomfret.

The pomfret I bought today, I found costs $23 per kg. It is like the small pomfret white and I got 4 fishes for $23. We don't eat the head like locals do, so I asked him to cut off the head and tail and the fins etc and clean it and he did it very nicely.

So all good, I was just wondering do people really spend $23/kg on fish? I am guessing pomfret is the rich man's fish, I would imagine food courts wouldn't be able to afford to sell pomfret and price it cheap.

We plan to eat fish like only once a week so spending $23/kg is not a big deal. But just wanted to know your thoughts. Cheers!

[sundaymorningstaple]

A good healthy fish to eat, that had large bones (not tiny ones so easy to trim out) and is a dense, white flakey fish and is normally also recommended by TCM's throughout SEAsia is the Toman. A large veracious & ferocious fish that will eat everything in the pond if you have a pond. Toman has a more common name I'm sure you will recognize (Snakehead).. I eat Snakehead/Toman around 3x a week usually alternating with eye round steak (very lean steak but not stringy or tough - around $27/kg at NTUC) Toman is just under $20/kg skinned. Unskinned $1/kg cheaper (all current NTUC prices). Toman is a freshwater fish, not salt water. Wet market prices for Toman will be cheaper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakehead_(fish)
https://articles.pickme.sg/6-health-ben ... head-fish/

Oh, and welcome back to healthy living......

[NYY1]

Grouper and red snapper are two with "firmer" texture.

I think seabass is a very commonly used name; not always sure the about the exact differences in the actual fish. Most of them here are very soft.

[the observer]

I recently restarted eating meat after like 15 years, thanks to my health screening results of low vitamin B12 and D, which is common among vegetarians
I am like instead of taking supplements which anyways contain fish oil etc, I might as well eat the real thing.

My wife can cook fish. So I went to the wet market in Taman Jurong to buy fish and since we are not experts we are sticking to just pomfret, we tried sea bas but my daughter finds it too soft and insists we only buy pomfret.

The pomfret I bought today, I found costs $23 per kg. It is like the small pomfret white and I got 4 fishes for $23. We don't eat the head like locals do, so I asked him to cut off the head and tail and the fins etc and clean it and he did it very nicely.

So all good, I was just wondering do people really spend $23/kg on fish? I am guessing pomfret is the rich man's fish, I would imagine food courts wouldn't be able to afford to sell pomfret and price it cheap.

We plan to eat fish like only once a week so spending $23/kg is not a big deal. But just wanted to know your thoughts. Cheers!

Threadfin and grouper is around 50-60/kg
Cod is 80/kg
So pomfret isn’t a rich man’s fish.

As for texture
You can’t go wrong with grilled salmon.
25-30/kg

[x9200]

I recently restarted eating meat after like 15 years, thanks to my health screening results of low vitamin B12 and D, which is common among vegetarians
I am like instead of taking supplements which anyways contain fish oil etc, I might as well eat the real thing.

My wife can cook fish. So I went to the wet market in Taman Jurong to buy fish and since we are not experts we are sticking to just pomfret, we tried sea bas but my daughter finds it too soft and insists we only buy pomfret.

The pomfret I bought today, I found costs $23 per kg. It is like the small pomfret white and I got 4 fishes for $23. We don't eat the head like locals do, so I asked him to cut off the head and tail and the fins etc and clean it and he did it very nicely.

So all good, I was just wondering do people really spend $23/kg on fish? I am guessing pomfret is the rich man's fish, I would imagine food courts wouldn't be able to afford to sell pomfret and price it cheap.

We plan to eat fish like only once a week so spending $23/kg is not a big deal. But just wanted to know your thoughts. Cheers!

$23/kg for fish with the head and other stuff is almost like the price for filleted, farmed salmons ($30-36/kg). Why don't you try what kind of fish, for example, amazon fresh has to offer? You could at least get some idea what sort of fish is what and there are many filleted options far below $23/kg. Personally I feel buying always from wet market provides neither better quality nor is cheaper, leaving convenience aside. At least for many cases.
https://www.amazon.sg/s?k=fish&i=amazonfresh

[Wd40]

I recently restarted eating meat after like 15 years, thanks to my health screening results of low vitamin B12 and D, which is common among vegetarians
I am like instead of taking supplements which anyways contain fish oil etc, I might as well eat the real thing.

My wife can cook fish. So I went to the wet market in Taman Jurong to buy fish and since we are not experts we are sticking to just pomfret, we tried sea bas but my daughter finds it too soft and insists we only buy pomfret.

The pomfret I bought today, I found costs $23 per kg. It is like the small pomfret white and I got 4 fishes for $23. We don't eat the head like locals do, so I asked him to cut off the head and tail and the fins etc and clean it and he did it very nicely.

So all good, I was just wondering do people really spend $23/kg on fish? I am guessing pomfret is the rich man's fish, I would imagine food courts wouldn't be able to afford to sell pomfret and price it cheap.

We plan to eat fish like only once a week so spending $23/kg is not a big deal. But just wanted to know your thoughts. Cheers!

$23/kg for fish with the head and other stuff is almost like the price for filleted, farmed salmons ($30-36/kg). Why don't you try what kind of fish, for example, amazon fresh has to offer? You could at least get some idea what sort of fish is what and there are many filleted options far below $23/kg. Personally I feel buying always from wet market provides neither better quality nor is cheaper, leaving convenience aside. At least for many cases.
https://www.amazon.sg/s?k=fish&i=amazonfresh

I asked my wife who is the fish expert. As per her, for Indian style cooking, salmons are not suitable.

The only fish suitable are:

Indo-Pacific King Mackerel/Spotted Spanish Mackeral/Ikan Tenggiri Papan

http://singaporechettinadrecipes.blogsp ... -fish.html

Lady fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBul8A3 ... ingchannel

Pomfret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vq0rujlrOI

We tried Sea Bass based on a colleague's suggestion and we like it. Just that it is soft compared to the other fish and my daughter didnt like it so much.

Looking at the Amazon site, Pomfret and Sea Bass seem to be quite common and the price is around the $20 per mark. Also somehow fish I believe is better to see and choose rather than online delivery.

[YYCole]

I like buying from Chinatown Wet Market. Its one of the biggest and in town. Prices are competitive and its one of the biggest wet market around. Find the prices cheaper than supermarket (less the promotional priced items at Sheng Siong or Giant)

[smoulder]

I recently restarted eating meat after like 15 years, thanks to my health screening results of low vitamin B12 and D, which is common among vegetarians
I am like instead of taking supplements which anyways contain fish oil etc, I might as well eat the real thing.

My wife can cook fish. So I went to the wet market in Taman Jurong to buy fish and since we are not experts we are sticking to just pomfret, we tried sea bas but my daughter finds it too soft and insists we only buy pomfret.

The pomfret I bought today, I found costs $23 per kg. It is like the small pomfret white and I got 4 fishes for $23. We don't eat the head like locals do, so I asked him to cut off the head and tail and the fins etc and clean it and he did it very nicely.

So all good, I was just wondering do people really spend $23/kg on fish? I am guessing pomfret is the rich man's fish, I would imagine food courts wouldn't be able to afford to sell pomfret and price it cheap.

We plan to eat fish like only once a week so spending $23/kg is not a big deal. But just wanted to know your thoughts. Cheers!

$23/kg for fish with the head and other stuff is almost like the price for filleted, farmed salmons ($30-36/kg). Why don't you try what kind of fish, for example, amazon fresh has to offer? You could at least get some idea what sort of fish is what and there are many filleted options far below $23/kg. Personally I feel buying always from wet market provides neither better quality nor is cheaper, leaving convenience aside. At least for many cases.
https://www.amazon.sg/s?k=fish&i=amazonfresh

I asked my wife who is the fish expert. As per her, for Indian style cooking, salmons are not suitable.

The only fish suitable are:

Indo-Pacific King Mackerel/Spotted Spanish Mackeral/Ikan Tenggiri Papan

http://singaporechettinadrecipes.blogsp ... -fish.html

Lady fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBul8A3 ... ingchannel

Pomfret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vq0rujlrOI

We tried Sea Bass based on a colleague's suggestion and we like it. Just that it is soft compared to the other fish and my daughter didnt like it so much.

Looking at the Amazon site, Pomfret and Sea Bass seem to be quite common and the price is around the $20 per mark. Also somehow fish I believe is better to see and choose rather than online delivery.

I was going to suggest salmon as well, but then I thought about the Indian style cooking. Another one you could try is sardines.

Would be great if you could get Bombil here (if you are a fan of it), but I've never seen it.

I do feel that toman is also a good choice and can be adapted to Goan and Mangalorean fish curries.

[x9200]

Looking at the Amazon site, Pomfret and Sea Bass seem to be quite common and the price is around the $20 per mark. Also somehow fish I believe is better to see and choose rather than online delivery.

I mostly buy salmon, sometimes cod, barramundi, but good thing about amazon is that if there is something wrong with the food there is no problem with claiming your money back. And it does not happen too frequently. I mostly buy cheaper kinds, often frozen and never had problems with the freshens, or to be precise, I had it just once (in 3-4 years) with some some quail eggs. I am recommending them because I use them practically for all my everyday groceries and generally they are ok+.

[Wd40]

$23/kg for fish with the head and other stuff is almost like the price for filleted, farmed salmons ($30-36/kg). Why don't you try what kind of fish, for example, amazon fresh has to offer? You could at least get some idea what sort of fish is what and there are many filleted options far below $23/kg. Personally I feel buying always from wet market provides neither better quality nor is cheaper, leaving convenience aside. At least for many cases.
https://www.amazon.sg/s?k=fish&i=amazonfresh

I asked my wife who is the fish expert. As per her, for Indian style cooking, salmons are not suitable.

The only fish suitable are:

Indo-Pacific King Mackerel/Spotted Spanish Mackeral/Ikan Tenggiri Papan

http://singaporechettinadrecipes.blogsp ... -fish.html

Lady fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBul8A3 ... ingchannel

Pomfret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vq0rujlrOI

We tried Sea Bass based on a colleague's suggestion and we like it. Just that it is soft compared to the other fish and my daughter didnt like it so much.

Looking at the Amazon site, Pomfret and Sea Bass seem to be quite common and the price is around the $20 per mark. Also somehow fish I believe is better to see and choose rather than online delivery.

I was going to suggest salmon as well, but then I thought about the Indian style cooking. Another one you could try is sardines.

Would be great if you could get Bombil here (if you are a fan of it), but I've never seen it.

I do feel that toman is also a good choice and can be adapted to Goan and Mangalorean fish curries.

Thanks, yes sardines my wife cooked, I just had a hard time separating out the thorns, they are like so many and everywhere, lol. I will try toman.

[smoulder]

I asked my wife who is the fish expert. As per her, for Indian style cooking, salmons are not suitable.

The only fish suitable are:

Indo-Pacific King Mackerel/Spotted Spanish Mackeral/Ikan Tenggiri Papan

http://singaporechettinadrecipes.blogsp ... -fish.html

Lady fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBul8A3 ... ingchannel

Pomfret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vq0rujlrOI

We tried Sea Bass based on a colleague's suggestion and we like it. Just that it is soft compared to the other fish and my daughter didnt like it so much.

Looking at the Amazon site, Pomfret and Sea Bass seem to be quite common and the price is around the $20 per mark. Also somehow fish I believe is better to see and choose rather than online delivery.

I was going to suggest salmon as well, but then I thought about the Indian style cooking. Another one you could try is sardines.

Would be great if you could get Bombil here (if you are a fan of it), but I've never seen it.

I do feel that toman is also a good choice and can be adapted to Goan and Mangalorean fish curries.

Thanks, yes sardines my wife cooked, I just had a hard time separating out the thorns, they are like so many and everywhere, lol. I will try toman.

The bones in sardines - that's why Malyalis deep fry them till the bones are crisp and can be eaten!

[jalanjalan]

I asked my wife who is the fish expert. As per her, for Indian style cooking, salmons are not suitable.

Can confirm. However it is delicious with fried curry leaves.

[sundaymorningstaple]

The main reason I suggested Toman is it is a healthy fish & reasonably inexpensive and solves the daughter's complaints as well. There are other fish I much rather eat like grouper & red snapper but I don't need to pay that much when Toman works just as well. As Wd40 is extremely frugal as we all know, I though this would be an ideal choice as I also knew it cooks well in Indian dishes (been married for 39 years to a local Tamil girl) and chinese & malay dishes as well. I generally eat it western style and also with a dash of Old Bay Seasoning it's good to go.

Oh if you are good with a filet knife. If you buy the cheaper Toman (not skinned). The skin is heavy and does good fried fish skins as snacks/appetizers. My helper does them western style and also Burmese style - both tasty.

[midlet2013]

For vit D , u can try Cod Liver Oil. Get as oil n take a teaspoon or as tablet.

For fish, you can also consider Mackeral. Salmon is healhty even tho I don’t love the taste a lot.

For vit b, Nutritional Yeast. Vegetarian and rich in all vit Bs.

Health is 90% food . So while affordability is key, it’s the last place where one shd scrimp.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Yeah, I would agree. It's just like buying a new car for basic dependable transportation to get you from point A to point B. You can buy a BMW or Merc and in 10 years you have to scrap it. OR you can buy a dependable Toyota or other top line Japanese car and save a bomb and statistically speaking will be just as dependable and a heck of a lot more affordable. One is to get the job done with reliability and the other is just for face/bragging rights and draining your wallet.