Will the real dory please stand up?

Thai Food and Drug Administration has enforced strict labelling regulations to solve the controversy regarding dory fish

Published: 28 Sep 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: Life

The expensive John Dory. Pangasius dory. Or just dory. These names have been circulated in social media and have raised numerous question marks, especially among huge fans of seafood.

Like all other freshwater food products, pangasius dory or Vietnamese sawai must be thoroughly cooked before consumption.

Consumers are left even more confused and aggravated when they see that the dory menu served in fine-dining restaurants is charged at more than several hundred baht apiece, while a fish with the similar name is also available in many street diners and can be enjoyed at only 100 baht or so per kilogramme.

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DickFarang
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Discussion 6 : 29 Sep 2012 at 00.036
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@ Discussion 3 (bkkfarang1):

Indeed, some restaurants in Thailand offer “sole”; I do not know what it actually is, but what I know is that it is all but sole.

At best it is some other kind of flatfish, such as so called Indian halibut or plaa taa diao.

In my home country “shrimp” stands for North Sea shrimp; in Thailand it is synonym for tasteless farmed freshwater shrimp.

Most, if not all, Thai “seafood” is completely tasteless, farmed freshwater stuff; that is why they spice it up when cooking.
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Discussion 5 : 28 Sep 2012 at 23.505
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@ Discussion 2 (joninnak):

Are you sure it was cod ?

Was it not imported farmed fish ?
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Discussion 4 : 28 Sep 2012 at 23.244
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Selling farmed freshwater fish as if it were SEA fish.

Amazing Thailand.
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Discussion 3 : 28 Sep 2012 at 13.523
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There are many fish sold in Thailand that have the same name as expensive fish in the western world, but they all come from the Khlong.
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Discussion 2 : 28 Sep 2012 at 10.592
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In England I was once in the rear of a fish/chip shop and was surprised at the amount of worms I saw in cod fish. I never ate cod for a long time.
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Discussion 1 : 28 Sep 2012 at 09.421
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The cheapest frozen fish sold in stores .
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