Thursday, August 14 - Gross

Who's heard of stinky fish? Literally, the dish is translated to stinky fish. It's this disgusting food that my mother makes for herself all the time. Let me explain to you how to make it. You begin making stinky fish by getting small fish, normally fresh water fish but salt water is fine as long as it's small. The fish has it's scales removed from it's body and then left to fully marinated in a soy sauce and vinegar for a full 24 hours. Then the food is fried heavily in oil.

The only way I can describe the fish is that it's the worst parts of fish, the slimy taste and the bad smell and the full on taste of soy sauce and vinegar into a horrible combination. The textures are a charred mess. Everything is cooked in oil but it always turns out horribly burnt. Running your finger against the fish is likely to make it crumble. The fragility is matched by a horrible smell. It reeks of burnt food, seared fish and heavy vinegar. The smell doesn't leave the house until a week of being aired out. The actual insides of the fish are non-existent. The only thing that could have withstood that was the fish's skin. The inside is pretty much a charred mush of soy sauce, completely ash. I don't think anyone would enjoy the smell of rot while tasting fried vinegar fish of death.