
松鱼, also known as Song Fish (Teochew pronounciation) in Singapore or Big Head Carp generically is an interesting fresh water fish. I was wondering around Chinatown wet market and I saw this shop that sold only this unique looking fish. Other stalls had various selection of fish but this stall sells only song fish. Have I eaten this fish before? I've never seen this in fish head curries nor dish such as fish head beehoon. But given that this shop only sells song fish, the fish must be quite a popular ingredient in Singapore cuisine. By the way in Japan, 松魚 is bonito or katsuo -totally different stuff.

Black scale-less head with a silver-grey body, somehow the fish doesn't look very tasty. Well that is, appearance-wise. It's pretty big too 40-50cm or even more, and it's pretty fat and heavy looking. I was looking at my thousands of photos and I remembered that I have eaten this at Joo Hing @ Joo Chiat road 8 years ago.
ここの名物料理の一つ、Steamed Fish Head with Taucheo and Bakpoh = タオチオ(発酵した大豆で味噌のような調味料)のペーストを塗り、蒸したソンユーの上にこれでもか!というくらい、揚げたラードボンバー(Bakpo or crispy lard)とチリとネギがトッピングされている。このソースの味はなんとなく、和風でいわゆる味噌焼というイメージだ。ラードとチリでシンガポール風になっている。魚の味は以外と淡白だが、若干魚臭さはある。
Their signature dish, steamed fish head with tauchio paste and sinful amount of crispy lard on top. This dish actually reminds me of Japanese flavors meaning the taucheo taste like miso -almost like a miso basted grilled fish.