Fish head curry stall - Sin Kim San , Rangoon Road

It's been raining hence the weather is much cooler today. Time for something spicy. An excuse actually . I just want to set my mouth on fire while satiating my craving for some maddeningly soft fleshed fish .

Fish head curry does just that. It's the best of both worlds. 

The expert sets to selecting the species . Kalah or Kannah I don't know which or what, but damn, the flesh is damn, damn , damn good....like a cross between chicken , swamp  crab and frog leg . Yes I have eaten frog legs but that was YEARS ago . This is a fish we're talking about with texture of  

3 animal species. 

All this talk about the head, where's the fish head ? Ok let's lift it out from under the luscious pile of okra , onions and mint now shall we ? 

The perfect tenggiri fillet steak

Otherwise known as King Mackerel to South Africans, Tanigue to Pinoys , Kanaad to the Arabs and Spanish barred mackerel in the western world , this on a plate , is my grandma's recipe handed down.

Pan fried with ginger and drizzled in palm oil , there are just no words to describe just how delicious it is especially if you add on a little soy sauce afterwards ( which I did of course ) . Yes, very we like it very oily, with a brown crusty layer on the outside, while a little dry but snow white and crumbly on the inside.