1/14/2024 0 Comments Korean fish market near me![]() You don’t see often see frozen or cooked mud crab. Mud crab (~$90/kg) – Buy it live and cook it yourself (here’s how to prepare mud crab). Want king crab? Best buy raw legs and cook it yourself. So we stopped buying pre-cooked king crab after too many disappointments for such an expensive food. King crab is imported which can also play a part in the variability of quality. King crab (~$90/kg) – Everybody loves the big meaty crab legs! While they are sold pre-cooked for convenience, we find the pre-cooked product very hit and miss. The cheap grocery store lobsters are rubbish (sorry, but they are). Lobster (crayfish) – Not worth it unless you can afford $100+/kg for high quality lobster. And by no means will your platter be any less delicious without them! These are not regulars on our seafood platter. Here are the top-ticket seafood platter signatures that we strongly recommend only buying if you can afford good quality. luxury seafoods – ONLY BUY if you can afford quality The worst is: Caught > frozen > thawed > cooked > frozen > thawed (like cheap lobster at grocery stores likely is). Done properly, excellent seafood quality is still maintained.īut the point is, the less freezing-thawing cycles, the better. This includes even cooked prawns at the fish markets during Christmas time. However the reality is some seafood has to be snap frozen at sea before reaching market and is sold thawed. The freshest seafood has never been frozen: caught and sold ideally on the same day. For all the above, we only get Australian, and seafood that’s undergone as little freezing as possible. TIPS: Seafood quality is better at fish mongers and the fish markets, one reason being they look after it better than large chain grocery stores. Smoked salmon – Sold in packets, I only get Huon (Tasmanian).ĭipping sauces – Our Family Favourite Seafood Sauce, and Tartare or Marie Rose sauce (recipes here) Sashimi – Kingfish, tuna, salmon are most common Alternatively: Spanner crabs, but read crab section below (including king crab & mud crab advice). Morton Bay Bugs (over Balmain Bugs) – Pre-cooked.īlue swimmer crabs (best over 350g) – Pre-cooked. Oysters – Pacific or Sydney Rock (Tasmanian and Merimbula oysters are my favourites) Prawns (pre-cooked) – Tiger, king or banana prawns. Everything we get is Australian – we specifically ensure it is because we know it will be better. This is the seafood we get that we purchased pre-cooked, or seafood that is served raw. ![]() Please see below sections on the why, why not, and extra tips. Here is a summary list of what goes on our seafood platter. See Seafood Buying Tips section below for more information! SUMMARY – What we put on our seafood platter * There are some exceptions and explanations to this rule, noted against specific items. THREE RULES WE LIVE BY for tastier seafood*Īvoid pre-packaged* (it’s stinky). The seafood platter in today’s post was our team lunch! Learn from all the tips we have picked up over a lifetime of seafood eating, and watch me buy the seafood at the Sydney Fish Markets to put the seafood platter together in today’s video! So this post today is essentially our shopping list of what we include on our seafood platter. Because there’s nothing more disappointing than spending hard-earned money on expensive crab only to find it tastes completely bland. This is why we are pretty meticulous with research and taste-testing our seafood – we even write nerdy notes to ourselves as reminders, to refine our purchases for the next shop. Australian seafood is incredible, but good quality seafood is not cheap! In today’s recipe, I’m sharing all the items we put on our seafood platter – a staple on Christmas Day! We love the ease (mostly no-cook, just assembling) and because it’s a treat reserved for special occasions. ![]() Plus, a video at the Sydney Fish Markets – watch me choose the seafood! A l ifetime of eating seafood! Here’s what we put on our seafood platter, a staple on Christmas Day for the RecipeTin Family! Our top tips for what to get, where best to spend your money and where not to, and our favourite seafood sauces.
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