TENGADAK SARAWAK, (Puntius Schwnenfeldii), 丁加迖

TENGADAK  SARAWAK, (Puntius Schwnenfeldii) 丁加迖

    This is also one of the best fish among the "bad tongue" people fish. Why? Because the fish is very very sweet and good in taste. However it is not a good choice for not a non-profesional fish eater because of the tiny "Y" shape fish bones. The tiny bones is just because the fish is always not alvailable in big size.

      Basically this fish is considered to be a small fish, with just mostly hook  up at the size of 300-500g in the river. Many do wonder why this fish is so expensive, it's really look like "lampan jawa" which is a pond fish. In West Malaysia, they even call this fish as "Lampan Sungai". But, this is really not a lampan fish at all! With the size  of 800g and above, this fish only being considered as expensive fish which the value of the fish will hit over RM 200-300 /kg. Below the size of 800g, this fish is just not so expensive.

  

 So many farmers had try to breed this fish because of the high value of this fish but almost can be consider facing failure. That is because, the age of 1 year of this fish only reaching the weight around 300g ONLY!! So now, do you understand why this fish is expensive? haha. I think, to reach the size of 800g, you need to breed it around 4-5 years. Any how, the biggest in tengadak weighted after gilled and gutted I found was around 1.7 kg. That's means it will be around 1.9-2.0 kg for whole fish weight.

Although this kind of fish is really delicious, many people still not consider it as "branded" fish yet because of the fish size in nature. Empurau fish, however had been a choice of fish as "Gift" or "Hamper" fish for the business men and contractor.