Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Catch your own fish at Big Mao
GASTRONOMES can now catch their own fish and have it cooked their way at Big Mao.
Making food experience more interactive and special, Big Mao, located at Crossroads in Banilad, added a fish pond where customers can take delight in fishing sea basses themselves.
According to Lorraine Dytian of Big Mao, sea bass has a soft but firm meat texture. “Its taste is also clean in the palate, plus it’s more affordable compared to other tank fishes like lapu-lapu,” she said.
After catching a fish, customers will have their picture taken and have it printed as a complimentary souvenir.
Sea basses that are freshly caught will be cooked in four different styles: ancient style (steamed), in soy sauce, in sweet and sour style or in lemon sauce.
“Derek (Dytian) saw it somewhere and he thought it would be fun to bring the concept to Big Mao without knowing how tedious it is,” Lorraine said, referring to keeping the fishes alive in the pond.
There were at least five batches of fishes did not survive. After several tries, improvements in the tank and advices from friends, the fishes started to survive in the pond.
“We plan to sustain it the whole year round,” said Lorraine.
She said that the fish pond attracts kids. “They love it,” she said. (JSC)
