Cleaning Procedures And Packaging

That's the way how we clean the fish before the fish being frozen to -25 degree celsius.

The gill is still there.....

The gills of the fish is firstly removed using plier or small knife.

Fish stomach being totally removed, but the blood stains and dirt being still remain.

That's the fish without gill and stomach. With blood and dirt being wash away thoroughly.

That's another example.

This is the packing methods we are currently apply. The packaging method is very labour and time consuming but worthy because it is very economy and the simple packing can make the fish storage life much much longer.

The Patin Cleaning Prosedures are as below :

See the thick fat still attached there. But mostly most of the local fisherman considered that's clean enough. But... that's not the real story.   

Cut the layer inner "skin" and you will see more....

See...Thick fat and blood cloth still remain there...

Then, the fish anus has to be clean properly, since that's the part that always stinky.

The thick fat that attached to the inner stomach wall also being removed. Some time only the fat, we will lost almost 10% of the total fish weight !!..

Now, the throat of the fish must also properly cleaned. Since so many unwanted things in there.

Now, the fish gills gone...

The fish is properly cleaned and should proceed to the next stage. QC, Packing and lastly Freeze it to 

-25 degree celsius.

Bunting

Bunting

This Is the bunting that will be used for the dealer that sell my product.. But this is not free of charge le...

OTHER FISH (S)

OTHER FISH (S)

 TILANG

Temunit

Padi

 



KENDERAK

KENDERAK

UDANG GALAH SARAWAK, FRESH WATER PRAWN, (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) 大头虾

UDANG GALAH SARAWAK, FRESH WATER PRAWN,
(Macrobrachium rosenbergii) 大头虾

A matured male "A" size prawn .

Small prawn

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This is a berried female prawn. (meanings= with egg)

Berried female prawn wouldn't grow bigger because all the nutrient had been used up to produce eggs. that's why you can hardly or never see big "A" size berried female. 

BAUNGS / CAT FISH IN SARAWAK

BAUNGS SUNGAI / CAT FISH IN SARAWAK

Baung Sungai, "Pak Suk Gong" means
" white moustache uncle" in Cantonese.
This fish had been very common since the farmer  know how to breed it. But the breeded will ALWAYS different quality compared to the wild caught fish. The biggest size we found was around 4kg and it's loko.

Baung Tasik,
Normally the black "baung" fish is not very good in taste. In addition, the skin quite smelly. This fish will be "loko" around 1.5kg and above.

Baung Jerung, 鲨鱼头白须公
The head and the face really look like shark!
Unfortunately, I didn't take his face picture.







Baung Kelulang / Baung Sakam / or been called White tail baung in cantonese. is one of the biggest species "baung" among them. Here, we did found around 8kg size fish without loko. Because the size of the fish, this fish also consider one of the main fish collected fish.

PATIN BUAH SARAWAK, 果子巴丁

PATIN BUAH SARAWAK, 果子巴丁

Some time patin buah also being called as "Shark head" patin because of the shape of the patin's head really looked like "shark" !.

Patin Buah 19 kg. But still not LOKO !! Haha. hard to believed. There are clues to see how can separate the loko patin and the good one. This one really shows all good signs on the fish.

Patin Hulu

"Patin Hulu" is one of the rare species patin. It's only can be found mostly at the upper stream of the river where you can find semah and empurau fish. It's looked similar to the rest of the patin but it is different. It's body is much wider compared to the most of the patin species. Their head, face and tail also different. A very obvious different with other species of patin is their "white end tips tail". This is one of the best fish in sarawak.





SEBARAU, ADONG SARAWAK, Hampala Macrilepidota,水马骝

SEBARAU, ADONG SARAWAK, (Hampala Macrilepidota),

  Sebarau is one of the game fish for fresh water fishing. It can be very easily hooked up with bait lure of artificial fish lure. But for the dinning at the table, very few people like this fish very well. Mainly because of the fish is "tasteless" as many people commended. That complain mostly from among the fresh water fish lovers. Some said the fish only can be eaten freshly, else the fish's stomach discoloured too quickly and become not fresh.

      Yes, their comments are true. But that is true when you hook the fish in the river and put into the ice box, take it home, then only cook it. If you had caught one of this fish and straight away cook it then, the flesh of this fish is very very good and sweet. I myself still not fully understand why as many people do. But one of my friend of fishing mania said one secret to me regarding this fish. How can you preserve the fish without losing it's freshness and taste even if you had put inside the freezer. Haha. I think, i wouldn't tell you all how...

                     

to be continue...........

水马骝

GAHAK SARAWAK, 正白鲶

GAHAK SARAWAK, 正白鲶

Gahak, 正白鲶

"Bilut"鸭嘴鲶

Lais Bongkok

RINGAU SARAWAK, TIGER FISH, RIVER TIGER, (Datnioides Microlepis), 河老虎

RINGAU SARAWAK, TIGER FISH, RIVER TIGER,
(Datnioides Microlepis), 河老虎

              This is one of the rare fish could be found here. This fish being called as Ringau in Sarawak. This fish is not the same with the other tiger fish around the world, esp the "Siamese Tiger" fish. , which has been now facing extinction.  So, consuming this fish is still consider legal for this species.



MATA MERAH SARAWAK, KELABAU, (Osteochilus Melanopleur), 红眼

MATA MERAH SARAWAK, KELABAU, (Osteochilus Melanopleur),红眼

"Mata Merah", the name obtained by the fish's red eyes in nature. This fish however not being considered as good fish in river fish species because of their original fishy smell. Because of their prefered natural food, some of the fresh water "aquatic weed", make them smell a little bit "green algae" smell. Some of the skillful chef in Sarawak know exactly what to do to eliminate the green algae smell and thus, that's why this fish become one of a good delicacy here.


This Mata Merah with bigger scale is a smaller species fish and rarely found above 1.5kg size perfish 

KETUTU (LIFE) SARAWAK, betutu, Marble Goby, Marbled Sleepy Goby, (Oxyleatris Marmoretus) or "Soon Hock" 顺克

Ketutu, betutu,  Marble Goby, Marbled Sleepy Goby, (Oxyleatris Marmoretus) or "Soon Hock" 顺克 by cantonese is one of the popular river fish that to be trade alive only....

All this soon hock is from the wild. You can see the colour of the fish itself.
             The smallest size of the fish that can be served on the plate in Malaysia is 500g. And the biggest size I had ever seen and purchased before was 9.9 kg. The biggest fish caught I heard around the fishermen was 16kg perfish !! Hard to believe ha....

That's my pet at home......

              The Soon Hock are ready for packing and send out. Before doing the packing, the fish had to be anaesthetic first or else many plastic bags will leaked due to the large opening of the mouth when disturbed and high metalbolism cause high oxygen usage and finally lack of oxygen ... I had bad experience in the pass when handling this life fish without anaesthetic the fish. Every time at least 10-20% die when reaching destination. But for the Drugs we use is strictly derived from plants and not man's made synthetic chemicals.

                For quality assurance, we just can't do this fish in large quantity. We collect only from the trainned, experinced and "willing to hear" person. Why? because many bad experience before... haha. The irresponsible collector didn't care whether the fish will alive here long enough, if the fish is still alive, then you have to buy it. Then the fish will die in 1 or 2 days.










8 kg and 6 kg soon hock.

The different of wild and breed ketutu fish is quit easy to differentiate. See the left betutu is breeded and the right is from the wild. Notice that the wild (right) got neck injury one whole round caused by net.

All my soon hock fish had been reserved for some one already.
So, at this moment, this is not the items for sales. Just for display only......