VJ’s Seafood

Dine at Cho Cho San in Sydney. Try Fish Collars (or wings) for the first time. Wonder how in 30 years I’ve never tried these delicious cuts from the fish before. Attend cooking class with work mates that happens to be led by the head chef of Cho Cho San. Learn how to cook fish collars. Take recipe home and begin mission to find a fish monger in Brisbane who stocks fish wings. Ask Twitter. Twitter leads me to Neil, the owner of VJ’s Seafood. He says he’ll put some aside for me. Eureka. Drive to Mt Gravatt and am greeted by beautiful fresh Barramundi fish wings. Also buy a few fillets of salmon, and cherry & beetroot cured salmon. (FYI: the later goes so well in an omelette). If you’re new to cooking seafood or just like to learn more, each of their product shelf talkers have a guide to «how best to cook» each piece of seafood. Get talking to Neil about fish catching practices and see the difference between a fish caught via netting and that caught by tunnel netting. Suitably impressed, my fish wings and I head home to try and recreate the Cho Cho San recipe. Smile a mile wide for a) learning something new and b) knowing my purchased helped a great local business.