Monday, July 16, 2007

Gindara = Black Cod = Sablefish = Escolar = Oilfish??

As the title suggests, there is so much confusion over what one could be eating and hence my recent miserable encounter.

On Thursday, I was at a Country Club in Jurong for lunch and ordered a main course made up of Gindara. Prior to ordering the dish, I asked what Gindara was (as I was hearing it for the first time) and my colleague told me its Cod fish! Apparently, Gindara is a fish commonly used in Japan for sushimi. It is also sometimes known as Sablefish (which I discovered from the internet).

Anyway, I was served this fillet of white fish that is approxiately 4.5 inches in length and 3 inches thick. That was when I thought to myself, "Wow, that's really value for money for Cod fish!". I was able to share a piece of it here and there with 3 other colleagues and still have a very decent serving to myself.

On the way back to office, I had to ask my colleague (who is driving a van) to speed back to office as I suddenly had terrible tummy ache and need to visit the loo badly. I thought I had too much food that day. Little did I know that it was all because of the piece of fish that I had.

Things really became worse the next day evening when I experienced the gross unpleasant side effects of THE fish. I was passing out orange oil! It was messy and difficult to control and it started when I was catching Harry Potter in a cinema! Luckily I was able to get home before things became really messy. I was horrified and thought that something very wrong happened to me. However, having heard about fake Cod fish, I also sort of suspected that I could be suffering side effects of eating a one!

I surfed the web and found out that side effects typically happen from 30mins to 36 hours after consuming the fish. And that different regions called the same fish different names. Hence, Oilfish can be easily mistaken as Escolar or Gindara or even Cod!

In addition, the oily stools/oil are a toxic reaction to the body's inability to digest and break down the wax esters found in the fish. In humans, wax esters are indigestible and thus accumulate in the rectum causing oily diarrhoea (keriorrhoea), which is what rapidly causes gastrointestinal symptoms after eating it but the symptoms are often not very severe, are not life threatening and they pass.

I seek condolence to learn that others suffered the same fate as me (ChikenMafia, Bob Lonsberry) and have survived. I was okay by Saturday afternoon but decided to stay at home over the weekend *just in case*!

Labels: Cod Fish; Oilfish

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