Wrinkled Cowfish is known as a specialty of the Central region and can be processed into many delicious dishes. Today, let us learn more about Wrinkle Cowfish right below!
1 What is wrinkle cowfish?
Wrinkle cowfish is a genus in the cowfish family, which usually includes about 42 species. In the Central region, hòm cowfish (khế fish), giáp cowfish, or wrinkle cowfish are the three types of cowfish commonly used here.
In addition, some places also call it paper cowfish or cowfish. They usually live in coastal areas with many coral reefs or underwater rocks. Therefore, this type of fish is often very difficult to catch.
Wrinkle cowfish usually have a long and flat slender body, small scales, rough thick skin like armor, light gray color. They also have teeth that are attached to each other, usually with 6 teeth on the outer row of the upper jaw and 6 teeth or fewer on the outer row of the lower jaw. The fin of this fish usually has a small slit on one side on the pectoral fin.
Wrinkle cowfish
2 How much is wrinkle cowfish? Where to buy?
You can buy wrinkle cowfish at seafood stores or fish markets. For convenience, you can also order online on a commercial website and have it delivered to your home.
Also, it is important to choose a reputable place to buy fresh fish, currently the price of wrinkle cowfish fluctuates around 170,000 VND/kg.
You can buy wrinkle cowfish at seafood stores or fish markets
3 How to choose and buy wrinkle cowfish
- To enjoy delicious wrinkle cowfish, you must choose fish with rosy appearance, shiny sea fish eyes, shiny scales, normal skin color, firm belly.
- Do not choose fish that are bloated, dull, or have cloudy eyes
- Choose fish weighing over 1.5kg. Because cowfish mostly take the fish body, relatively large fish bones, so choose fish with medium weight or higher, eating more meat is the best.
- Or you can buy cowfish without skin, which has been removed and cleaned directly. Frozen seafood can be stored for a long time and still fresh and delicious after thawing.
How to choose and buy wrinkle cowfish
4 What delicious dishes can be made with wrinkle cowfish?
Depending on each household’s taste, wrinkle cowfish can be used in many delicious and attractive dishes such as fried wrinkle cowfish, dried wrinkle fish, sour soup with wrinkle fish,… but the most notable is the grilled wrinkle cowfish. This dish is loved by many people because of its irresistible delicious aroma. The recipe for this dish is very simple. You can grill them in a pan, oven, or air fryer.
Grilled wrinkle cowfish with salt and chili
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