Pet food: Malaysian woman’s koi soup raises eyebrows after she makes meal out of dead fish
- Amanda Omeychua first shared the photos of her unusual dish to a Malaysian Facebook group for cooking ‘fails’ with more than 2 million members
- She said the fish had died accidentally and rather than let them go to waste, she decided to make them into a meal using a ‘traditional recipe for a king’
Amanda Omeychua first posted the photos on a Facebook group with more than 2 million members called “Masak Apa Tak Jadi Hari Ni”, which roughly translates as “Cooking Fails Of The Day”.
The montage of six pictures showed almost two dozen dead fish laid out on a floor, with Omeychua explaining in a comment that they had died from a lack of oxygen after a tap was left on to refill their pond. Koi, like all pond fish, require a minimum amount of dissolved oxygen in their water to live.
Rather than let the colourful koi go to waste, Omeychua said she had decided to make them into a meal using a “traditional recipe for a king”. Her pictures show the fish being measured before being cut up and turned into soup, which she said “tasted like catfish”.
“I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to eat my own pet,” said one, adding: “I would just bury them”.
Others claimed to have had a similar dish at various restaurants across Malaysia, while a few said they were surprised to see the fish being prepared for human consumption as they thought that koi could not be eaten – though as a relative of the common carp, koi are edible.
In a later comment, Omeychua apologised for upsetting anyone with the pictures of her meal, but said the fish were just too expensive to throw away.
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