Monday, January 19, 2009

T.F.M. Spotting - Soup Time!

One of the "Malaysia Boys", Alpago, sent us this series of photos of fishing a nearby pond for silver catfish...all while sporting his T.F.M. t-shirt.


The "Malaysia Boys" certainly fish some very nice vintage and contemporary fly gear and those silver catfish are unlike anything we have in the States for sure.


The silver catfish went to the house for dinner and his wife uses for this recipe to create a Malaysian delicacy.

MALAYSIAN FISH SOUP

1. Tumeric (where you get the yellow color)
2. A little shrimp paste
3. A small chili, not sure if you've got it over there but it's really hot,
so maybe you can replace it with other type of chili
4. To make it bit sour we put some dried sour fruit but I don't think you have this over there so maybe you can replace it with lemon/lime
5. A bit of salt to taste

Put everything inside the boiling water and stir it for few minute until the smell comes up and then put the fish inside. It depends on what type of fish, but make sure you don't overcook it otherwise the meat will be torn apart, and it's not nice.

The results...


Thanks Alpago for the photos and the recipe!

2 comments:

cofisher said...

Yum, I've never tried fish soup, but I love soup on a chilly day. Thanks for posting the recipe Alpago.

Alpocot said...

Most of the time, I'll release the fish I caught, but some species really hard to resist, especially for pay pond. I like this kind of soup because the meat is well preserve. Oh by the way, when I said it hot, it's really really flaming hot!!