I was at my friends house the other day and some people came in and started talking about a fish that their friend had caught. He caught a 60kg river fish. Now that is big! Bigger than me and most Asian females. I just can't imagine a river fish being that big. Well, then I was invited to go dinner to taste the fish. Unfortunately I didn't get to see the fish, but the part that was cut up looked like a lot of fish. It was cooked in hot pot, a big pot of boiling broth that you eat of at the table, and I actually didn't like it very much. A lot of the pieces did not look like fish at all. It seemed to have a pork texture with a fish flavor. It was also very fatty (fish is not supposed to be like that). As normal, people felt the need to keep adding pieces to my bowl, so I got to eat part of the tail. The tail doesn't have any meat so you basically are just sucking the skin off the bone.
The funniest part about this story to me was that everyone kept talking about it. The conversation at dinner kept being, "So how big was the fish again?" "126 jin, wow, that's bigger than. . ." Anytime a new person came in the room the same conversation would pick up. I am really surprised that the fish did not grow during the conversation, but I did find out that it was supposedly 20 years old.
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