Jade Perch Native to Queensland, Australia, it’s a good candidate for pond fish culture. With its high nutritional value and high percentage of polyunsaturated fatty acids, Jade Perch enjoys strong consumer acceptance throughout Asia. And Jade Perch is easy to eat with less bone, oily and rich flavour. To have a tasty dish, either steaming or pan-frying is suitable for Jade Perch.
Grey Mullet
Giant Grouper
Pompano
Grey mullet grows at estuaries. It is plump, cylindrical in body shape and rich in fat. Yuen Long grey mullets are famous for their high fat content all year round.
Also known as Queensland grouper or brindle grouper, it is the largest species of grouper. Local aquaculture produced Giant Grouper is rated as premium seafood and its quality is strictly monitored. Its body is robust and mainly greyish-brown in color with a mottled pattern. The meat is a special delicacy, rich in protein while the skin contains plentiful gelatin.
Mainly living in the Red Sea and sea of East Africa, from the southern sea of Japan to the northern sea of Australia. Its body type are round flat and the meat is delicious and creamy. It is suggested to cook by steaming with soy sauce. Nowadays, we could buy Pompano throughout the year in Hong Kong.
Star Snapper
Red Snapper
Cobia
Named as redfish or maya-maya as well, the Red Snapper has a large, flat and oval-shaped body in eye-pleasing bright red colour. Having few bones and with a tender, thick texture, it is meaty and suitable for various ways of cooking.
Cobia is a species of the family Rachycentridae with a number of common names such as black salmon, lemonfish, prodigal son, etc. It has a broad and flattened head, dark brown elongated body with two narrow horizontal bands on the flanks. The meat is firm with buttery flavor that can be used as sashimi or fish steak.
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Japanese Seabass Japanese seabass or simply ‘seabass’ is known as ‘Suzuki’ in Japanese. It has an elongated body with rather flat flanks. Generally it is about 40cm in length, but the maximum recorded length is 1.02m and with a weight of 8.7 kg. It is a versatile food fish that can be used for cooking soup, grilling, braising, deepfrying or steaming.
Both its head and back are red or red-brown in color. And it has yellowish-white belly, bright yellow fins and there is a distinct white spot on the body. Wild star snapper mainly lives in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. Nowadays, with good aquaculture practices across local fish farms, star snappers could be provided throughout the year in Hong Kong.
