Unicorn LeatherjacketAlso known as : Unicorn Filefish
Mandarin name : 鹿仔鱼 (Lù zǐ yú), 鸡鱼 (Jī yú), 肉竹 (Ròu zhú)
Hokkien name : Keh Hu, Bak Teik
Malay name : Ikan Barat-barat, Kerosok Padi, Ayam Laut
Details:
• This fish is sold/marketed as
"Chicken Fish" in Malaysia.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.za/LocationPhoto...ersekutuan.htmlThe links above show the photo of the fish sold at Jalan Alor.
When I try to search about the fish, I found that the fish is called Unicorn Leatherjacket in English, Ikan Barat-barat in Malay and Keh Hu in Hokkien. And the image results based on using the information above are definitely showing the same fish. However, when I search using the terms "Chicken Fish", I found some fish image that definitely not Ikan Barat-barat/Unicorn Leatherjacket, instead it is another type of fish called Starry triggerfish and Ikan Jebong/Ayam Laut in Malay. Most of the search results are from Malay blog and as such, saying that Starry triggerfish is the "Chicken Fish".
http://sharingthotsandluv.blogspot.my/2013...asam-manis.htmlOne of the blog that write about Starry triggerfish/Ikan Jebong.
My question is which is the real identity of "Chicken Fish" in Malaysia. Note that when i say in Malaysia because there is another Chicken fish from Vanuatu near Solomon Islands called poulet fish.
Or is it both consider as the Chicken fish? Just like how the Chinese identify both freshwater catfish and marine/saltwater catfish as Tong Sat (Cantonese)?[attachmentid=9525747]
It is said to be taste like chicken. Hence, it is sold under the name of “Chicken Fish” in Malaysia.
Redbelly Yellowtail FusilierMandarin name : 豆腐鱼 (Dòu fu yú), 黄尾鱼 (Huáng wěi yú)
Cantonese name: Tau Fu Yu
Hokkien name : Tau Hoo
Malay name : Ikan Delah, Delah Pinang, Bagan, Sulit
Details:
• Well known for its use in making fish balls, because it gives the fish balls a nice bouncy texture.
• The meat of the Yellowtail Fusilier is very sweet, so apart from using it to make fishballs, you can also pan-fry the whole fish.
• On the other hand, the skin is very tough, so people don’t usually eat it.
• You can easily identify Yellowtail Fusilier by its unique combination of yellow (tail), blue (middle section) and an obviously pink (belly) hues.
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Chinese Silver PomfretAlso known as : Butterfish
Mandarin name : 斗鲳 (Dòu chāng), 斗底白鯧 (Dòu dǐ bái chāng), 斗底 (Dòu dǐ)
Cantonese name: Dao Cong
Hokkien name : Dao Chior
Malay name : Ikan Bawal Tambak, Duai Tambak
Details:
• This fish is the most expensive fish within the “鲳” (Chāng) fish category.
• The fish is identified by its diamond shape with dull silver, pewter coloured body.
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Silver PomfretAlso known as : White Pomfret
Mandarin name : 白鲳 (Bái chāng), 银鲳 (Yín chāng)
Cantonese name: Pak Cong
Hokkien name : Pek Chior
Malay name : Ikan Bawal Putih, Duai Putih
Details:
• The fish is identified by its silverish white, not pewter coloured body.
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Black Pomfret Mandarin name : 黑鲳 (Hēi chāng)
Cantonese name: Hak Chong
Hokkien name : Orh Chior
Malay name : Ikan Bawal Hitam
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Snubnose PompanoAlso known as : Snubnose Dart
Mandarin name : 金鲳 (Jīn chāng)
Cantonese name: Kam Cong
Hokkien name : Kim Chior
Malay name : Bawal Mas, Nyior-nyior
Details:
• The fish is identified by its golden fins and tail.
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Yellowstripe ScadAlso known as : Yellowstripe Trevally / Yellow-Banded Trevally / Smooth-Tailed Trevally
Mandarin name : 金带细鲹 (Jīn dài xì shēn), 君令 (Jūn lìng)
Hokkien name : Kun Ning
Malay name : Ikan Kuning, Selar Kuning, Pelata Kuning
Details:
• This is the fish that Malaysian (mostly at coastal region, elsewhere they usually eat nasi lemak with fried chicken) and Singaporean eat with Nasi Lemak.
• It is good for frying especially if it is coated with tumeric powder or paprika and a little salt.
• It is also known as “the poor man’s fish” because of its affordability.
• It is currently on World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) red list of threatened ocean species.
• Do not confuse this fish with another similar looking fish, Yellow
tail Scad which is larger. This fish is around half the size
smaller or more than Yellow
tail Scad.
• It can be easily identified by its distinctive and prominent lateral yellow strip running along the back from the head to its tail. It has small eyes, very thin scales and greyish tail.
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Nasi lemak with ikan kuning
Yellowtail ScadAlso known as : Northern Yellowtail Scad / One-finlet Scad / Omaka
Mandarin name : 色腊 (Sè là)
Cantonese name: Sik La
Hokkien name : Sek La
Malay name : Ikan Selar, Temenong
Details:
• It has yellow tail and an easily identifiable long dark strip of hard scales extending from the tail to 1/3 of body.
• Do not confuse this fish with another similar looking fish, Yellow
stripe Scad which is smaller.
• This fish is often served at the peranakan restaurants grilled with sambal belacan chilli stuffed inside the fish.
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Ikan Selar-Yellow
tail (top) vs. Ikan Kuning-Yellow
stripe (bottom)
Pale-edged StingrayAlso known as : Sharpnose Stingray
Mandarin name : 魟鱼 (Hōng yú), 魔鬼鱼 (Mó guǐ yú)
Cantonese name: Mo Gwai Yu, Pou Yu
Hokkien name : Hung Heur
Teochew name : Hung Hu
Malay name : Ikan Pari Ketuka, Tuka
Details:
• This species is the most common stingray to be served in Malaysia as it is often a bycatch (caught unintentionally) in fisherman net which cause this species to be branded as Near Threatened.
• It is used to be sold cheaply because there is no market value for it. It is considered as “fishy fish” as it has ammonia smell.
• It is only began to be served as food in Malaysia after the Portuguese traders brought their cuisine in the form of Sambal Stingray (Ikan Bakar in Malay) using local ingredients to Malacca during Malacca Sultanate era and make popular by the Kristang (also known as the "Portuguese-Eurasians" or "Malacca Portuguese" or “Orang Serani” in Malay).
•
Trivia: Portuguese are the one who spread chilli to the rest of the world includes India (imagine curry without chilli) and Malaysia after Christopher Columbus who is an Italian under the Spanish found chilli at South America (Mexico).
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Indian ThreadfinMandarin name : 顺风午 (Shùn fēng wǔ), 午鱼 (Wǔ yú), 马友鱼 (Mǎ yǒu yú)
Cantonese name: Mah Yau Yu
Hokkien name : Ngor Her, Orh Ngor
Malay name : Ikan Kurau, Senohong
Details:
• The fish is identified by it threadlike rays which are found under the pectoral fins (the front fins). The Indian threadfin has
5 threadfin. It has black and white pattern on its skin.
• There is a premium grade Indian threadfin called the
Balai Ngor. It is named so because they’re fished off Tanjung Balai in Indonesia (near to Singapore). It has a golden yellow hue on its skin in addition to the usual black and white.
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5 threadfin under the pectoral fins
Fourfinger ThreadfinAlso known as : Indian Salmon / Blue Threadfin / Rawas Fish
Mandarin name : 午鱼 (Wǔ yú), 马友鱼 (Mǎ yǒu yú)
Hokkien name : Peh Ngor, Ngor Her
Malay name : Ikan Senangin, Senangin Rambu Empat
Details:
• This fish has
4 threadlike rays under the pectoral fins (the front fins).
• The diameter of its eye is also greater than the distance between the eye and the snout. So compared to the Indian threadfin, the eyes are proportionally larger.
• It also have lighter skin colour compared to Indian threadfin. Hence its name in Hokkien peh ngor (white ngor) as opposed to orh ngor (black ngor) referring to the Indian threadfin.
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Trivia: • Grouper are listed as fish which
high in mercury.• This fish sometime named as Garouper which is a wrong spelling of its Portuguese name, Garoupa. Some said the word Garoupa was derived from Malay word, Kerapu. Some say it is the other way around. Nobody know for sure. I mean even the word "Mandarin" come from Portuguese mispronunciation of Malay word, "Menteri" when Portuguese traders are asking the Malay what to call those officer from China during Malacca Sultanate era.
Spotted Coral GrouperAlso known as : Bar Cheek Coral Trout
Mandarin name : 石斑魚 (Shí bān yú), 七星斑 (Qī xīng bān), 太星斑 (Tai xīng bān)
Cantonese name : Chat Seng Paan
Hokkien name : Ang Gau, Chut Bee Gau
Malay name : Kerapu Sunoh Pisang, Kerapu Bara
Details:
• A red, pale greyish or olive to dark brown grouper with small blue spots on the head, body and fins. Some spots on the head and anterior body are horizontally elongate forming dashes (oval shape).
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Blue spot (oval shape) that form dashes
Leopard Coral GrouperAlso known as : Leopard Coral Trout / Common Coral Trout
Mandarin name : 石斑魚 (Shí bān yú), 东星斑 (Dōng xīng bān ), 西星斑 (Xi xīng bān)
Cantonese name : Tong Seng Paan, Sai Seng Paan
Hokkien name : Ang Gau
Malay name : Kerapu Sunoh Bara, Kerapu Bintang
Details:
• A large olive green to reddish brown or orange-red grouper covered in regularly-spaced bright blue spots (except below), and a blue ring around the eye (may be broken up).
• This fish can rapidly change their colour, and often assume a mottled pattern when hunting. This species is often mistaken for the Spotted Coral Grouper, which has some elongate spots or dashes on the head region.
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Blue spot (round shape) on an orange-red Leopard Coral Grouper
Orange-spotted GrouperAlso known as : Goldspotted Rockcod / Estuary Cod
Mandarin name : 石斑魚 (Shí bān yú), 红点石斑 (Hóng diǎn shí bān)
Hokkien name : Chia Gau
Malay name : Ikan Kerapu Bintik Jingga, Kerapu Pinang, Kerapu Balong, Kerapu Rintek
Details:
• A pale brownish to greyish-brown grouper.
• Best identified by their orange-brown to reddish-brown spots on their body and 4 to 5 “H-shaped” darker bars on its sides.
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H-shaped pattern
Areolate GrouperAlso known as : Areolate Rockcod / Greenspotted Rockcod
Mandarin name : 石斑魚 (Shí bān yú), 西星斑 (Xi xīng bān)
Cantonese name : Sai Seng Paan
Hokkien name : Koay Gau
Malay name : Kerapu Ekor Putih, Kerapu Bintik Bulat
Details:
• A pale grouper covered in close-set orange to brown spots (refers as areolate pattern - mean pattern like nipple) that become more numerous and relatively smaller as the fish grows, and a narrow white margin on the tail.
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Narrow white margin on the edge of the tail
Duskytail GrouperMandarin name : 石斑魚 (Shí bān yú), 红点油班 (Hóng diǎn yóu bān)
Cantonese name : Sheung Sik Mei Hung Paan
Hokkien name : Koay Gau
Malay name : Kerapu Ekor Gelap
Details:
• This grouper often mistaken for the orange-spotted grouper because of the similar orange dots on the body of the fish.
• The easiest way to identify this grouper is to look at its tail which only has the orange spots on the upper third while the lower two thirds is a dusky brown colour, hence its name.
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Lower two thirds of its tail in dusky brown colour
Humpback GrouperAlso known as : Mouse Grouper / Panther Grouper / Barramundi Cod / Polka Dot Cod or Grouper
Mandarin name : 老鼠斑 (Lǎoshǔ bān), 驼背鲈 (Tuóbèi lú)
Cantonese name : Lou Shu Paan
Hokkien name : Ngiau Chee Gau
Malay name : Kerapu Tikus, Kerapu Belida, Sunoh
Details:
• Its small head and humpback appearance resembles the Barramundi or Asian Sea Bass, earning it the name Barramundi Cod in Australia.
• Its colour ranges from greenish white to pale greenish brown with large widely spaced round black spots all over the body, earning it the reputation of being occasionally called Polka Dot Cod/Grouper.
• It is called Lou Shu Paan or Mouse Grouper because of its resemblance to the rodent.
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Giant GrouperAlso known as : Brindlebass / Bumblebee Grouper / Brown Spotted Cod
Mandarin name : 石斑魚 (Shí bān yú), 鞍帶石斑魚(Ān dài shí bān yú), 龙旦 (Lóng dàn)
Cantonese name : Long Tan
Malay name : Ikan Kertang, Kerapu Pertang
Details:
• Largest bony fish found in coral reefs and largest among the 石斑魚 (Shí bān yú) category.
•
DO NOT confuse with
Goliath Grouper. They're not the same fish.
• Adults are greyish-brown with a mottled pattern and darker fins, while small secretive juveniles are yellow with dark broad irregular bars and irregular dark spots on the fins.
• The defining characteristic of the fish are the numerous small black dots which cover the fins, most predominantly on the pectoral fins, but also the dorsal and tail fins.
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Numerous small black dots which cover its fin
Brown Marbled GrouperAlso known as : Tiger Grouper / Black Rockcod / Carpet Cod / Flowery Rockcod
Mandarin name : 石斑魚 (Shí bān yú), 老虎斑 (lǎo hǔ bān)
Cantonese name : Lou Fu Paan
Malay name : Kerapu Harimau
Details:
• A large pale yellowish-brown grouper covered in small close-set brown spots, five vertical series of irregular dark brown blotches, and a distinctive small black saddle at the base of the tail. All the fins have small brown spots.
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Dragon Tiger GrouperAlso known as : Hybrid Grouper / Sabah Grouper
Scientific name : Epinephelus Fuscoguttatus x Epinephelus Lanceolatus
Mandarin name : 石斑魚 (Shí bān yú), 龙虎班 (Lóng hǔ bān)
Cantonese name : Long Fu Paan
Malay name : Kerapu Hibrid, Kerapu Kacukan
Details:
• A new type of grouper results from cross-breeding.
• There are a lot of hybrid grouper in the current market but the first hybrid grouper is cross-bred via researches from Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Malaysia, in collaboration among researchers of the Borneo Marine Research Institute of UMS, the Fisheries Development Authority of Malaysia (LKIM) and Kinki University of Japan, represented by Prof. Dr Shigeharu Senoo of UMS.
• This grouper was produced by fertilising the eggs of the tiger grouper (Brown Marbled Grouper or Lao Hu Ban in Mandarin) with the sperm of the giant grouper (Long Dan in Mandarin – literally mean Dragon Grouper) through the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) technique; hence earning its name of Dragon Tiger Grouper derives from its Chinese name.
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Name of MY edible fish & Fish eating concern, Fish name in Malaysia & mercury in fish 
Jan 18 2018, 03:01 PM
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Thank you so much.. This is what i wanted.
while I am not sure about sea bass, black bass in USA but I am sure that Barramundi are only refers by the Australian Ang Moh while Asian Sea Bass by Asian.
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