Vertical photo of a book cover with Traditional Chinese characters and fish art.

I'm also really excited to dive into this book I picked up at #Eslite #Taiwan on the backstory and history behind different #TaiwanFisheries species names! Love when you go into a bookstore looking for one thing, and come out with a completely different (and pleasant) surprise.

Horizontal photo of a crayon sketch of a crescent grunter, held up against a book cover with many fishes, including crescent grunters.

For "flowers" #SundayFishSketch I picked Terapon jarbua, an Indo-Pacific grunter species known here in #Taiwan as 花身鯻 or 花身仔 (literally "flower-bodied fish" but figuratively "boldly patterned fish"), among other names. #TaiwanFisheries

Vertical photo of a series of change-purses all in shapes and photo prints of popular Taiwan table fishes, including silver pomfret, milkfish, and tilapia.

Photo of a shop display placard with prices in New Taiwan Dollar for various Taiwan fish and vegetable themed purses and bags.

Took ever bit of restraint not to buy the whole set of these Taiwan fish purses!!! (Display at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum gift shop) #Taiwan #TaiwanFishes #TaiwanFisheries #FishyArt 🐡🦑🧪

Crayon sketch of a crimson seabream, which has a characteristically bumpy head

Continuing the #SundayFishSketch theme of pink fishes (and my own sub/theme of #Taiwan #TaiwanFishes #TaiwanFisheries), here's a Evynnis tumifrons / 赤鯮 / crimson seabream. Apparently one of the "ten fishes" of Taiwanese cuisine. 🐡🦑🧪

Photo of plain-colored blocks of firm, indiscernible meat tissue labeled in Traditional Chinese as mola mola gelatin.

Another supermarket seafood find I had to translate later turns out to be... MOLA MOLA! I'm gonna have to research how this is traditionally prepared.

#TaiwanFisheries #TaiwanSeafood #Taiwan #🧋 #🇹🇼

Vertical photo of whole fish wrapped in cellophane on packing trays, including a horsehead tilefish

Vertical photo of grilled whole fish wrapped in cellophane on packing trays, including a horsehead tilefish

And here's a couple horsehead tilefish I just happened to see in the supermarket! Not as vivid as their in-life or fresh-caught colors (well, obviously not the grilled one).

#Taiwan #TaiwanFisheries #SundayFishSketch #🧋 #🇹🇼

Video of a seafood market stall full of shellfish in aerated tanks.

Photo of an assortment of fish taxa on ice

Photo of Salicornia plants for sale in a box.

Photo of grilled seafood served on a ceramic platter.

Some peeks! #TeamFish #TeamTaiwan #TaiwanProduce #TaiwanFisheries #🇹🇼 #🧋