How to choose fish:
- The smell should be fresh and light. Any kind of ammoniac smell, except in stripe fish, should be thrown away.
- The meat should be hard and elastic, with sticky scales, wet, covered by a light transparent mucus. The abdomen should neither be inflated, nor have signs of tear.
- The eyes must be clear, shiny and convex, and occupy the entire orbit.
- The gills should be wet, shiny and pink, not blood red.
- The abdomen, when you open it, must be clear, not dark red or brown.
