@Yankee
The fish served in most individual portions (loose) in supermarkets in China is usually full of water and turns to mush when you cook it.
The individual or twin packs in Metro seem to be little better. The only good way to get sea fish is to buy it fresh, if you can find it. I have also found the 4kg boxes of catering fish in Metro to be of OK quality. But you need a big freezer.
When the flood happened about a month ago, the day after the water receded, hoards of people were fishing all along the panlongjiang. Quite successfully, too, scooping about big carp I had never seen before. Of course the water looked worse than anything, but the fishing was good.
Black carp infected with erythroderma
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Again - I would not advise eating any fish from Dianchi. They will likely be full of organophosphates (from the thousands of flower green houses on the shores of the lake which have canals directly to/from Dianchi), heavy metals (from industry), human excrement bi-products (from the raw sewage that I saw/smelt, just yesterday, being pumped into a Panlong River tributary) and various other persistent pollutants. These almost all end up persisting in the food chain in various forms. In eating these you are asking for acute as well as chromic illnesses.
To be safe, I would avoid buying fish for the next 3-4 weeks to ensure you aren't being sold Dianchi specials!
If you are a fish eater I recommend you get tested for heavy metals every few years.
Seems to me a lot of foreigners, perhaps mostly newbies here, are really AFRAID of ordinary life in Kunming &/or China.
No, fish is a problem everywhere in the world now. Mercury levels are getting dangerously high.
Not to mention Fukushima which is still an ongoing disaster that is no longer mentioned by MSM.
Maybe there are reasons to be afraid of ordinary life here since it's not so ordinary any more. Dianchi might of been ordinary like 20 years ago, but that lake isn't ORDINARY anymore.
I'll be moving to KM in a few months, and really like eating fish (originally from east coast of Canada, which has some of the best seafood IMO)... where is the best place to get it and how can you assure it's fresh as opposed to farmed? Is that a stupid question to even think that I can find non-farmed fish? I've heard a lot of stuff, but am wondering where I can source clean, tasty and healthy seafood in KM.
