Supermarket a few dollars a pack of pasha fish, can you rest assured to eat?

Have you noticed that restaurants especially like to cook with pasha fish? Whether it is pickled fish, boiled fish or grilled fish, if the fish served on the table is spiny and tender, then it is definitely made of pasha fish.

Why do restaurants like to use panga fish so much?

The reason is very simple, as long as you go to the freezer section of the supermarket to compare the price of basa fish with other fish, the answer is clear to your heart-cheap.

Even the most affordable grass carp costs 10 yuan per catty, and the prices of better-quality black fish and Qingjiang fish have doubled.

Why is it that the same fish is so cheap? What kind of fish is it?

Why is fish so cheap?

Pasha fish is actually the trade name of this kind of fish in the market. The serious name is Boshi giant catfish.

Yes, basa fish is actually a kind of catfish. It is a distant relative of the earth catfish and flower catfish we usually eat. It is no wonder that the meat of basa fish is soft and tender.

If you see the whole picture of the basa fish before it was dismembered into fish fillets by human beings, you will find that it is not only similar in flesh to the earth catfish, but also very similar in appearance-slippery and scaleless, with two long whisker on the lips.

Not only is the appearance in line with the characteristics of catfish, basa fish is also a very typical catfish in the characteristics of life.

Pasha fish is an omnivorous fish. The requirements for feed are not very high. It is basically what to eat. And they grow so fast that it only takes a few months to grow from a fry to a big fish that can come out of a fish pond.

What's more, they don't even have very high requirements for the living environment. Even if the oxygen content is slightly lower, the water quality is slightly worse, and there are more fish living in the same pond, they can live comfortably and grow meat.

It is easy to raise, grow fast and not picky, which makes the basa fish especially suitable for large-scale human breeding, and the large-scale breeding also reduces the cost. This is the fundamental reason why the price of basa fish is low-the cost of raising high-quality basa fish is not high.

In Vietnam, Thailand and other regions where basa fish are farmed all the year round, the cost of basa fish farming is not only low, but also the number of times out of the pond can be achieved twice a year. It is no wonder that basa fish can hold the throne of cost-effective fish king.

However, from Vietnam and Thailand to supermarket freezers in China, fresh pasha fish will definitely not be able to arrive. Therefore, the panga fish that comes to us are all processed fish fillet forms.

In order to keep fresh and keep the fish meat from losing water after long-term storage and transportation, the fish steak will often be soaked with food water retaining agent containing phosphate and then wrapped with a thick layer of ice coat.

Although this can retain the water in the fish, it will also affect the taste of the fish, making it watery and soft to eat, without the feeling of meat fiber like earth catfish and flower catfish, and the delicious flavor of the fish itself is basically lost.

Someone used a salamandone as a dragon fish?

In the market, sometimes the pasha fish will be dubbed freshwater dragon fish head to sell.

Speaking of dragon fish. You may wonder, what kind of fish is this dragon fish?

In fact, Longli fish is often said at the seaside tongue sole fish, named because of its flat body shape and tongue shape. Longli is the general name of many kinds of fish under the sole-shaped eye tongue sole family in Guangdong region, so it reads more smoothly than tongue sole, and the name Longli fish has become the common trade name of this kind of fish.

Because the dragon fish is flat and flat, peeling off the main thorn leaves a thin and flat fillet, which gives the pasha fish the chance to rub the heat.

Although basa fish and longli fish, one is sea fish, one is river fish, the other is catfish and the other is flounder, it can be said that they have nothing to do with each other, but they look too similar after they are made into fish fillets, because many unscrupulous businesses will let basa fish be sold under the title of longli fish.

A little more conscientious is just to let the basa fish rub the heat, the price is still the original price. No conscience, let you directly use the price of dragon fish to buy pasha fish, after all, the price of dragon fish is more than twice the price of pasha fish, and most people simply can't tell whether they are in front of the pasha fish or dragon fish.

However, once cooked, the taste difference between the two is quite obvious.

Pasha fish steak is usually thicker, and the meat is not only soft and tender, but also especially juicy. Unfortunately, although the taste is good, the pasha fish has no outstanding flavor. If seasoning is not added, it will make people feel tasteless. In contrast, Longli fish is much better, the taste is tender and soft, needless to say, there is a unique fresh and sweet taste, the flavor is very prominent.

If you don't want to buy Pasha fish at the price of Longli fish, you can remember these points:

If it is too cheap, it must not be a real dragon fish;

② the standard freshwater dragon fish, is the basa fish;

③ If the origin is marked as Vietnam and Thailand, the probability is Pasha fish;

The package says Cabasa and Basa are all basa fish.

Of course, if you don't get money from unscrupulous merchants, basa fish itself is actually a very high-quality and cost-effective source of protein, but you also need to pay attention when buying basa fish:

Don't buy those that are too cheap, because the ice coat may be thick. Don't buy fish steak that has obviously shrunk and lost water. Don't buy anything in the future.