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To De-vein Or Not To De-vein

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It’s a question that is probably discussed to death pretty much all over the shrimp eating world. The opinion is evenly divided for both points of view. Most frozen shrimp / prawn is usually head and shell off with the tail left on and usually “de-veined”. If the shrimp / prawn is head-on shell on, then more often than not, the “vein” would still be in there. This “vein” that we are talking about it is one that runs along top of the shrimp / prawn. What is strange and…

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Seafood Myth Busters

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Top four seafood myths and their offshoots.  In this blog post, we’ll take a close look at some of the false concepts floating around (pun intended) about seafood. We’ll see whether these notions are purely fictitious or if they have an element of truth in them. Myth 1 – DAIRY Much A Moo About Nothing   In our culture, the most common myth that’s persisted for far too long is that seafood and dairy can’t be consumed together. There has been no scientific evidence or study that proves this theory…

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Questions & Answers – Part 2

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We left off last week with these 2 questions to be answered for ourselves before really diving into this business ‘all in’. Do we really see ourselves doing this 5-8 years from now? Why are we really doing this? The second question was the one that really needed to be answered. Sure we loved seafood and wanted much better quality and we wanted variety. This “settling” for inferior quality and lack of options had to stop. We believed that there were more people out there who didn’t realise that they…

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Is your fish fresh?

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The most common question we’ve faced since Fishvish started and probably the most common question any fish monger has ever had to answer since time immemorial. Having asked the question do we really expect him to say no it’s stale? Living on the Coast If I live on the coast my concept of fresh fish will be very different from a guys living a few hundred kilometers inland. Strangely neither of us will be wrong with our differing concepts of fresh. It’s what we’re used to. The point is that both…

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Questions & Answers – Part 1

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Over the last few years, any one that’s shown any form of economic interest in us or in our business has had one common question: why are you doing this? Shumu and I are amateur cooks, well me more than him, he’s actually very good. Our grouse over the years has been the lack of quality seafood in Pune, a pain point we shared with a lot of people. This was made doubly worse with the lack of variety and volatile pricing based on season. A chance meeting on work…

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