Canned Seafood

[GMXam]

Nope, can't make it this Saturday, unfortunately. Thanks, anyway. Tell me about all the marvelous looking fish you guys find.

Sorry, I didn get it. You are comming or not this saturday?

6:45 is ok. Uruguay and Paraguay.

 

[Matt84]

Yes, I have seen walnuts in bulk there, but then we have to go into the big fruit and vegetable hangars, not sure if I am up for that, we'd have to go very early.

We wont be doing that! I found this site that delivers nuts in bulk. It's you chance to stock up brazil nuts from bolivia, but beware they are 20 times more radioactive than a banana!
http://frutosare.com.ar/

I do wonder whether they still do sell pecans in tigre, when i search for puerto de frutos there's a pretty cool website dedicated exclusively to furniture and reed.

 

[cwo4uscgret]

As someone who spent 30 years of his life on or near the ocean I fell in love with FRESH seafood years ago. My current residence in just north of Detroit, MI - many miles from the salt water. There are some fresh water fish that are available in the grocery stores and restaurants that are fresh but anything from the ocean is suspect. There is one fish monger where I live who has excellent, but usually frozen sea food at a reasonable price.

The Jumbo Palermo has a good selection of seafood from what I saw; for the most part fresh. Buenos Aires to me means beef - so I try to stick with that or pasta dishes. My stepson took us to a seafood and beef parillia the other day before we left; I could smell the aroma of cooked seafood and beef as we arrived - my wife and son had a mixed seafood platter - it looked like they used very fresh fish, shrimp, octopus, etc and the "mud" vein in the shrimp was removed. I stuck with the beef which was quite good. I don't remember the name but it was right next to the restaurant that is known for its empanadas - near Recoleta if I remember where we were.

Canned seafood - albacore tuna in "spring water" I use for tuna salad; canned salmon for casseroles. Every once in a while smoked baby oysters, from Japan or sardines is mustard is good but I live for fresh seafood. Fresh as in we went fishing in the AM and were grilling it in the PM!

 

[Bajo_cero2]

CM for this Saturday by PM please.

 

[polostar88]

I have a car and room for another 3. Ariel81 can take a bus.

However, 7.30 is late. We should be there by 7. It takes 15 minutes to arrive there so early (from my home in downtown).

I would strongly recommend to people to be wary of accepting a meeting from this very "friendly" character, who is obviously here to keep an eye on expat community and collect information. This goes for you especially Noruega, given your other post. I think Western people don't have a good instinct about such things, so I'm warning you.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

Nice advice. However I m in this website since 2010 and some of the forum members know me in person, among others, perhaps, her.
I suggest you come so, then, you can talk from your first hand experience.

 

[nlaruccia]

what is "tilapia" and "red snapper" called here, when going to buy it?

sorry for the ignorance!

Res snapper is often called pargo and it's a Caribbean fish not sold here. The fresh fish in Argentina is terrible, unless you want to eat a $380 peso plate of salmon imported from Chile. merluza negra, salmon and trucha is basically all they offer. No mahi mahi, red snapper, or sword fish anywhere to be found.

 

[Noruega]

I would strongly recommend to people to be wary of accepting a meeting from this very "friendly" character, who is obviously here to keep an eye on expat community and collect information. This goes for you especially Noruega, given your other post. I think Western people don't have a good instinct about such things, so I'm warning you.

I don't even know what to respond to this... But yes, I have met Dr. Rubilar outside of the forum and I am not worried. We might disagree politically but I don't think that really matters, and I am 100% sure that he is not out to keep an eye on me or other expats or collect information...

And guess who's going to have some delicious trout for lunch on Saturday??

 

[Pensador]

There is lobster here in Uruguay something I really missed for a long time. I have not been able to find King Crab but I hear they have that down in Patagonia.

 

[TomAtAlki]

It seems the discussion on fresh fish (canned seafood) has pretty much ended so I hope you all don't mind a related question.

A wonderful restaurant call Jangada in Palermo Hollywood closed a couple of years ago. They served a fresh water fish call Paku, a really ugly, fatty fish from the Amazon. They served the whole fish, broiled, on a big wooden platter for 2. One of my best meals in Buenos Aires. We ate there many times. Question is....does anyone know if the owner (chef) relocated anywhere nearby or is this fish available in any other restaurant?

Thanks, T/