Kitchen Disaster: Mussels

The Beakers have attacked!

I had a huge disaster over the weekend. With the plan of cooking mussels marinated in ginger, garlic and chilies I ventured to the Chinese seafood shop in Victoria Street. The place has a bit of a reputation for selling frozen fish imported for Vietnam so it’s not where I normally shop for seafood. But they had the live mussels which looked pretty good in the shop. I guess it’s a bit like buying clothes at a sale, it seemed like a good idea till I got them home.

Upon washing my new found friends, an oil like substance was emitted. The type multi coloured type you see in the water next to oil refineries.

After that I lost any illusions of a delicious plate of mussels and the poor little bastards ended up in the bin.

I think I’ll have to head to a nice local restaurant to see how its really done. Come to think about it the Watergrill is only around the corner :-)

BTW, found this article which reinforces the quality argument. Epicure