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January 28, 2008
Swai and sutchi

Perhaps you haven't heard these two words before. I discovered them while eating out on the Gulf coast this weekend. Instead of grouper, seafood restaurants were serving swai and sutchi and advertising them as "Better than Grouper!" Not true. We got one waiter to fess up that sutchi is more like catfish. He said that grouper has been overfished in the Gulf of Mexico and restaurants have been asked to serve imported fish in place of Grouper until the fish has repopulated. You can still find grouper on the menu in some restaurants at a more expensive price.

It seems silly to me to visit the coast and eat fish imported from Asia. So I ate tuna and mahi-mahi instead.


Posted by megabeth at January 28, 2008 10:45 AM
 
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I am rather partial to the grouper reuben myself yet at my favorite purveyor of said delight when said purvey or was out of grouper I had an amberjack reuben. Gotta say - actually better than the grouper. I don't know how common amberjack is but if it's on the menu, give it a try.

Posted by: BlogDog at January 30, 2008 06:23 PM


 
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