Check the auction price of Noryangjin Seafood Market – Best method
Checking the auction bid prices of the Noryangjin Seafood Market is the best method for both choosing good quality fish and leading negotiations with prices with merchants.
Link to the auction price of Noryangjin Seafood Market
https://www.susansijang.co.kr/nsis/mim/info/mim9030
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Methods to choose good quality fish alive
*Caution. Choosing fresh dead fish and good quality live fish have strictly different standards. The Noryangjin Seafood Market is more like an aquarium full of live fish.
Knowing how to choose the best quality fish is very important to not ruin your experience at Noryangjin Seafood Market.
Choosing good quality fish alive – For blue colored fish – High Activity indicates better quality
Depending on the type of fish, the activity level and vividness has different indications. Usually for blue colored fish like mackerels, sardines, herrings, yellow tails(hiramasa, amberjacks etc), more active fish tend to have a better quality.
On the other hand, general calm and modest fish are better quality. Most blue colored fish are half-endothermic or partially endothermic that means they have partial control of maintaining their own body temperature.
Thus, these fish have higher metabolism rates than ordinary fish that are mostly exothermic and need to flow as much water into their gills.
Overall, good quality blue colored fish tend to be much more active in the aquarium as this indicates they are more vivid and not dying out.
Choosing good quality fish alive – Fish except for blue colored fish – High Activity indicates poor quality
For other types of fish, calm, modest and docile fish tend to be of better quality. Most ordinary fish are exothermic that means they don’t regulate their own body temperature.
Exothermic animals like fish in general could lower their metabolism rate and have a lower metabolism rate compared with endothermic animals. Thus fish that adapted to an aquarium tend to be dormant as they’ve lowered their metabolism.
This also means that the fish is experiencing less carbohydrates, sugars, fat, lipids and protein as well. Thus, dormant calm fish tend to have better quality and taste.
However active fish in aquariums are usually fish that are in great stress that didn’t adapt to the aquarium. By vigorous activity, the fish is consuming energy by its activity and the stress hormones of such stressed fish increases the consumption of energy as well.
For example, people when stressed, tend to find sweet snacks or food because the stress hormones rapidly consume much energy, sugars and carbohydrates.
Blue colored fish must survive first, but for other fish, they don’t need much activity and could adapt.
Over active fish may indicate they are at the brink of death as well. Thus, more active fish in aquariums in general tend to have a lower quality and have less taste.
Choosing good quality fish alive – Bigger the better, Shorter and Fat
Bigger fish tend to have much more flavor because they have much more lipids, fat and have a larger body with more body parts than smaller fish. Thus the more lipid and fat the fish has, the richer the flavor is.
Thus for fish with the same weight, shorter and wider(more fat) fish tend to have better quality.
Choosing king crabs and snow crabs – Check the links below
Below links have the specified details for choosing good quality snow crabs and king crabs.
How to choose Good Quality Snow Crab (Opillio and Bairdi Crab) – Part 3 - Seafood Market Tips and Guide
Quality Snow crab Selection 16. Know the fishing season and the breeding seasons for the snow crabs that you eat. This information along with the snow crab origin is a good to know. Fishing seasons are opened and closed depending on the life cycle of an an
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How to select quality King Crabs - Golden King Crab, Red King Crab, Blue King Crab
How to choose Quality King Crab 1. Know the differences between the red king crab, blue king crab and golden king crabAlthough there are many overlapping factors, each distinctive king crab species have different points that require attention. For example,
merriman-and-co.tistory.com
A class Seafood and B class Seafood
In South Korea, high quality fish or seafood are called A class seafood while lower quality fish that have some matters but don’t have any problems to consume are called B class.
Most of the retail stores in the Noryangjin Seafood Market would deal A class seafood to the consumers. However there are some retail stores that have B class seafood and fish in their aquariums for consumers that are looking for much affordable prices.
To enjoy seafood, it is better to ask for an A class fish while paying a bit higher price if consumers don’t get the methods to choose better quality seafood.
However, if consumers have some knowledge of seafood and confidence, asking for a B class seafood could save up some budget.
However, consumers should always beware of merchants trying to charge the cost of an A class seafood on B class seafood.
Anything Cheap is cheap for a reason
One of the problems of all traditional markets in Korea and the world is that expensive goods are expensive while cheap goods could be expensive.
Nothing is cheap without reason in the Noryangjin Seafood Market. Thus, if any merchant offers goods with a surprisingly lower cost, consumers must check on why it is so cheap.
Merchants may offer seafood at lower costs because of the auction price in the morning or just mere grace(mostly after purchasing a lot of seafood at once) but always ask just in case.
