Pick the Perfect Prawns supplier

 When it comes to buying prawns from your favorite seafood supplier, the conversation between you and the store holder is generally centered around the type of prawns you’re looking for.

 

You wouldn’t be wrong to think that it’s completely acceptable to walk into a store or scroll through our prawn products online and ask for a certain amount of King Prawns, because the name suggests they’re particularly large. However, contrary to popular belief, a King Prawn actually doesn’t just mean a “big prawn”. In fact, it’s just a name for the species itself.

 

Over the coming months I will be speaking to seven traders from different ethnic backgrounds about the foods that are important to them and why. For the first post, I decided to ask myself the same questions I will be asking the traders. What are the foods that remind me of home? What foods make me feel nostalgic? What foods evoke special memories for me?  One thing I miss most about Sydney (my other home) is the seafood. In London, the best quality seafood is to be found at Billingsgate, which is very much geared towards the wholesale market. If you want to buy fish from there you have to get up at sparrow's fart and trek out to Poplar (far for me).

 

Most people don’t realize that prawn sizing is so vast and varied, and simply asking for King Prawns doesn’t specify exactly what size of prawn you’re actually wanting to purchase. The good news is, we happen to know a thing or two about prawns and their structure. After all, we do live and breathe seafood, so you’re in good hands.

 

'The same goes for scallops in the shell. If you buy them, they will be cheaper and you'll also get not just the meat but pretty serving shells.'   

 

Alex recommends that you do your seafood shopping as close to Christmas as possible because 'every hour off the ice means a day off the shelf life'. 

 

'Seafood will stay fresh for longer if it's kept really cold,' he said.  'When you're shopping for your seafood, use a chiller bag or an esky and ask your fishmonger to pack some ice with your purchase.  'When you get home, scale, clean and gut your fish. Place it on a plate or tray or in a lidded container, cover it with a damp cloth and then add plastic wrap or your lid.

 

If it is a seafood chowder you are making for guests, it is more likely that you are going to be needing smaller prawns. In the same sense, if you are planning on hosting a BBQ with a whole lot of people, you may be looking more at getting larger prawns, which tend to be about U6 to U10 in size. In particular U6 jumbo prawns will be a showstopper for your guests! In a nutshell (or a prawn shell), it is all dependent on what you are going to be doing with the prawns.

 

When it comes to buying prawns from your favorite Prawns Fish Market supplier, then Casula Fish Market is better for you.