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Harper Lake
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Catfish, Catfish; Everywhere You Look There's Catfish
When I was a young'n if we ate fish it was fish we caught ourselves. We hardly ever had catfish because they were considered bottom feeders and you usually had to wait till dark to catch one. They are nocturnal, doncha know? Now, you can't go to a restaurant and not find catfish on the menu. They are raised on catfish farms and the supply is plentiful to say the least. Most restaurants offer both fried and baked catfish. When I realized how extensive the use of this fish had become was when Dorothy and I ate at the new Chinese restaurant, Hong Kong Harper. They offer six kinds of catfish: Mongolian Catfish, Catfish with Lobster Sauce, Catfish Suey, Ginger Catfish, Kung Pao Catfish, and Peking Catfish. We decided against any of those and chose the Moo Goo Gai Pan. I thought I was being funny and ordered Moo Cow Gai Pan because I wanted beef and not chicken. Dorothy didn't laugh and informed me Moo Goo is mushroom, Gai is chicken, and Pan means slices. So she says if they even had what I ordered it would be mushrooms, beef, chicken slices. Sometimes I thing she knows way too much.
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