Fried whitebait consumed at a tapas bar in Madrid, Spain.
I just love fried fish, little fish, to be precise. The best ones were my family’s specialty–small fish lightly marinated with turmeric powder, deep-fried to crispy goodness, with a vinegar-soy dipping sauce loaded with chopped bird’s eye chilies.
Heavenly!
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try stir frying them with some sliced chilli, onion and a lil sugar. Better still if u can get day old YAU CHAR KUEH ( sliced thinly and deep fried ) and sauteed them all together . . .
DELISH !
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Yumz..the smaller they are, the sweeter the meat!
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I don’t like big fish, I love small fish too, they are crispy and can eat the whole thing, LOL.
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They do look heavenly!
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I could eat loads of this! Simple but tasty finger food!
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I had this in spain for breakfast actually – almost every day I was there! Just amazing aren’t they!
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Gimme a beer and keep ‘em coming!
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Your family’s favorite recipe sounds like the cha ca we had in Hanoi — I think I still have some turmeric stains on the clothes I was wearing the night we ventured to Cha Ca La Vong, but it was worth every bit of spilled sauce to have fish fried that way.
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unless it has edible bones or no bones..if not a BIG no!
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delicious! what tapa bar did you eat these in? just curious, i was recently in madrid.
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I love this kind of fish! Just a sqeeze of lemon and they’re perfect.
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hi,
can u brought along some to me when u have ur home trip back to Penang?
they look delicious….
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Oh, wow! I like the sound and looks of this! Heavenly is right. ;-)
Paz
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these are most likely BOQUERONES FRITOS… they’re fresh little white anchovies fried in a batter. Really delicious with just a squirt of lemon juice… not to be confused with the preserved really salty anchovies people are most familiar with…
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I don’t mind fried small fish…like the silverfish!
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I snack on fried little fish like french fries!
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I like fish but everyone knows that I do not eat fried stuff.
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Is it this fish that Chinese restaurants usually do the 椒盐 style?
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I usually marinate this in lemon then dust with cornflower mixed with a dash of pepper and salt – deep fried then eaten less than a minute after. Delicious!
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