Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Sabah Giant Garoupa

From the "Giant Garoupa Fish" stall, we bought a bowl of Sabah Giant Garoupa Mee Hoon Soup at MYR28 nett. There are about 7 slices of Garoupa Fish that are fresh and without any strong unpleasant fishy taste. Other ingredients are tomatoes, pickled vegetable and white tofu. There is no milk in the broth unlike those KL style fish noodles which is fine with us but we would prefer the broth to be less murky and less oily.

This is the menu for this stall. Apart from dishes with Sabah Giant Garoupa, they also serve chicken mushroom meals.

Here is a close up photo of the Sabah seaweed pickles. The white translucent things that look a bit like sea corals in the photo above are the Sabah seaweeds. They are somewhat crunchy.

18 comments:

  1. Ya, the soup does look murky, how does it taste?

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  2. Ahhhhhh...I see the seaweed now, we do not have those in our cucumber pickles.

    That murky-looking fish soup looks like our Foochow-style preserved vegetable fish (or prawn) soup, nice! Looks good, does not look oily in pic - if it is fish oil, then it's good, some fish may be somewhat oily.

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    1. No, the oil taste does not taste of fish. It is somewhat like wok hei in soup, if you know what I mean.

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  3. Different menu. Yaloh. No seaweed in our cucumber pickle here.

    Guess they have to customise their menu to fit the local preference and taste.

    The garoupa soup looked delicious but I agreed with you, less murky.

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    1. I guess putting seawwed into the cucumber pickle would make it special.

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  4. Hmm... the soup color, looks a lot like Indonesian laksa soup...

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    1. But it is not spicy and not creamy so no santan in it.

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  5. I don't mind murky soup as long as it tastes good. I love garoupa. Very pricey fish. So did you like the mee hoon soup?

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    1. I like the garoupa slices but not the oil taste of the soup.

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  6. How do you find the taste of the soup. I like the Sabah seaweed pickles.

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  7. The broth looks like some kind of laksam...wonder what it tastes like? I love garoupa but would probably prefer it in a clear soup.

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    1. The broth hqa a strong oil taste, almost like wok hei. It felt like someone uses the wok to char kway teow and then pour the soup into it to boil so the wok hei got into the soup.

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  8. The bowl of garoupa reminds me of that Sg Buloh Family restaurant... now I am missing it... the pickles looks nice too.. now drooling..

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    1. The garoupa fish noodle you mentioned should taste better since it has clear broth.

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  9. Hehe 'murky' is the right word! RM28 is rather a hefty price but then again, fish is so expensive.

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    1. Garoupa fish is expensive, you are right!

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