Swai Fish

The first time I saw it in the market I though it said SWAN! I know duck is popular, and people eat goose, but I've never heard of eating swan.

Duck duck goosh.

Swai is what we used to call Asian catfish or Vietnamese catfish. If is tasty with just garlic butter and lemon zest.

//It is tasty....

Is this the fish that supposedly gives people explosive orange diarrhea?

R5 I believe that's caused by the Trumpfish.

I detest tilapia and have seen this in the store and thought it must be another name for that low rent fish since the price is similar. I feel sad when restaurants have to confess to serving tilapia on the menu.

Tilapia is for poors and laborers.

R7, R8, how do you feel about catfish?

Orange diarrhea fish is escolar.

You bitches would eat tilapia if it was served on a naked man.

R11 Perhaps if it were arranged artfully. But if it were just a pile of cheap tilapia fish on a naked dude... well that's just tacky.

I like Swai.

Holds together well without being rubbery like talapia.

I've had it once or twice. It's not terrible. I assume it's cheap because it's farmed?

R1 - Clarissa Dickson Wright, one of the late Two Fat Ladies, said she had tried swan but wouldn't have it again.

^ Interesting.

It’s a Chinese plot. Flood the market with cheap Swai, get us addicted, then jack up the price.

Ka-Ching!

I get that it is cheap white fish. Like pollock. Cheap cod. Cheap sole. Am I wrong?

Remember that escolar thread years ago where the OP shat orange liquid all over his chair in the middle of the cube farm?

Swai is a variety of catfish from southeast Asia - places like Vietnam. I like it a lot - very mild, no fishy taste or smell, relatively firm, takes seasoning well. However, there are some concerns about the water quality of the rivers where it is raised. There's no such thing as an Environmental Protection Agency in Southeast Asia, so there can be industrial wastes, raw sewage, antibiotics, etc in all the rivers where it's raised. American-raised catfish is nearly as inexpensive, and I tend to buy it now, because I think our water quality laws are more stringent.

Talapia fish can survive in a cesspool. They really eat and are swimming shit. Do not eat!

This is cheap fish. It always comes in combos because it’s so cheap. You can order a salmon and swai combo or a sea bass and swai combo. They’re just throwing in the swai because it’s so cheap.

In my neck of the woods, swai fish meat looks like that of salmon but smells very vaginal and muddy.

WHET Chilean Sea Bass? I used to love eating it.

What? No love for me?

My feelings are hurt!

Swai is used in the Fish Korma sold at Trader Joe's. I'd never had it before, and my favorite fish is firm-fleshed like salmon, tuna and halibut. I liked the swai fine. The few answers here that have been objective about taste and texture are, in my experience, correct.

Orange roughy and Chilean sea bass were overfished and their population is a concern. Very tasty white meat fish, but I believe it takes decades for orange roughy to multiply.

I imagine, like Tilapia, it has very little nutritional value.

Kinda like eating instant ramen noodles

Eat a blobfish and its relatives will hunt you down and gut you like a . . . Well, they’ll gut you.

Funny. I just saw this fish at the grocery store today.

R30, I don’t think that’s true.

You want to find out? R32

The blobfish family is gangsta. They're like the La Cosa Nostra of the oceans

I eat tilapia, but only tilapia that I buy at Costco, since they're supposed to be pretty careful about their sourcing. My local Kroger sells tilapia from China: I've read several times that they're fed garbage when farmed in China. Tilapia are one of the fish recommended for home farmers who can provide warm water.

[quote] Remember that escolar thread years ago where the OP shat orange liquid all over his chair in the middle of the cube farm?

R19, apparently R10 does.

[quote] WHET Chilean Sea Bass? I used to love eating it.

Chilean sea bass is essentially a marketing name for a type of cod. See below from Wikipedia.

The name "Chilean seabass" was invented by a fish wholesaler named Lee Lantz in 1977. He was looking for a name that would make it attractive to the American market. He considered "Pacific sea bass" and "South American sea bass" before settling on "Chilean sea bass".[3] In 1994, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted "Chilean seabass" as an "alternative market name" for Patagonian toothfish,[3] and in 2013 for Antarctic toothfish.

Cheap fish farmed in SE Asia. They put the chicken coups over the ponds for the shit to feed the fish. I can't even begin to think of how their processing is even near any standards of the developed world. Better cook it very well done to kill any bacteria. Our local very cheap regional seafood chain uses it as their main offering, did I say cheap? They also say "Home of the giant shrimp", I've seen those shrimp and I don't want to know how they got so big. Oddly, it is owned by Muslims, at 5pm they sometimes will go into the arcade and get on the floor and say their prayers, they are all big fat cunts and have to squeeze in there like sardines. Really really strange.

[quote] have to squeeze in there like sardines

Are sardines related to swai?

There’s no point in asking r32 any questions.

We won’t be seeing him no more.

Exactly what did r32 say that was so enthralling?

[quote] They put the chicken coups over the ponds for the shit to feed the fish

I wish the chickens of the United States would band together and overthrow Trump.

I, for one, would bow to our new avian overlords.

Remember blackened redfish?

Apparently, Swai used to be sold as catfish until 2003 when congress passed a law stating that only American catfish could be sold with that label. In addition, in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi -- states where catfish is a big industry -- it is illegal to sell swai.

R19 I remember!

Catfish literally eat shit.

R45 So does Erna. Do you think they'll chop him up and sell him as stinkfish fillets when he croaks?

I think swai was marketed as “basa” several years ago. I remember liking it under that name but haven’t bought any swai, which I figured was tilapias poorer cousin.