This morning I bought a barracuda from the fish market. I've never cooked (or eaten) barracuda before so I have no idea what I'm going to with it. It was just too cool and too cheap (10 tala, about $3.25) to pass up.
I had it cut into steaks. I'll probably fry it up with some onions maybe in Satay or Tandoori sauce. If it tastes like crap, I can always feed it to the kittens.
I also picked up four pounds of Yellow Fin tuna fillets. Yellow Fin is the tuna used in sushi bars around the world to make sashimi. It's one of the best fish on the planet. This huge chunk that I bought today would probably cost about 500 bucks in any run of the mill sushi bar. It cost me less than 6 It's only 5 tala a pound).
Ah, the benefits of living in the developing world. Adios, it's sashimi time.
If you feed it to the kittens you will scrape off the sauce and onions first, right? Yeah, get in all the fresh fish you can down there, because when you return to the states you'll be stuck back in that exhorbitant profit margin again.
We enjoy pretty cheap seafood up here as well, sometimes, although most of the times, "our salmon" costs us more to buy here than it does in the lower 48, by about 2 or 3 dollars per pound. Ironic.