Greetings! Fellow TONMOers, I bring you a update to what I've been up to.
So, after a 3 year or so hiatus from the market, I went back again some time last week. Surprisingly, most of the stalls still remember me and nothing has really changed at all, the nice stalls were still nice, the mean stalls were still...as obnoxious as usual. But enough about that, I snapped some photographs with my fancy snazzy camera:
The first picture, we have a rather large gastropod of some sort, usually used in soups in Chinese cuisine, it's fairly common and the size is pretty uniform, so I think there's some way of farming these things rather than being an odd catch while trawling.
Second picture, is of a local bigfin squid that's quite dead. The chromataphores were already not very responsive and I guessed it stressed itself to death. Still, a rather rare thing to find in a market since they don't usually get into the territories which the trawlers operate. We do get them near the coastline when jigging though, there's a nice stretch of coast near my school where they seem to congregate.
Third pic is a tub of your local common octos, kind of depressing coming to think of it. But it beats being thrown overboard as by catch, right?
Fourth pic is of a skate..ray? I don't know, all I know is that they taste quite awful.