Under the Sea 3
Image by Marco Mutzke
This picture was taken at the AquaDome and Sea Life Center in Berlin.
Sea Life Centres are marketed to families seeking as easy, entertaining and educational experience. They are marketed by owners Merlin Entertainments as a "friendly and authoritative guide to the last great frontier...the seas and oceans of the world and their myriad mysterious and amazing inhabitants."
Each centre combines modern glass and display technology, biological expertise and entertainment to provide themed journeys through European and tropical waters. This often provides close encounters with sealife from shrimps and starfish to seahorses, sharks and stingrays.
Sealife centres also claim to champion the cause of marine conservation, through education, awareness and, wherever possible, direct action.
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Under the Sea 2
Image by Marco Mutzke
This picture was taken at the AquaDome and Sea Life Center in Berlin.
Sea Life Centres are marketed to families seeking as easy, entertaining and educational experience. They are marketed by owners Merlin Entertainments as a "friendly and authoritative guide to the last great frontier...the seas and oceans of the world and their myriad mysterious and amazing inhabitants."
Each centre combines modern glass and display technology, biological expertise and entertainment to provide themed journeys through European and tropical waters. This often provides close encounters with sealife from shrimps and starfish to seahorses, sharks and stingrays.
Sealife centres also claim to champion the cause of marine conservation, through education, awareness and, wherever possible, direct action.
scorpionfish
Image by Marco Mutzke
This picture was taken at the AquaDome and Sea Life Center in Berlin.
The scorpionfish are a family (Scorpaenidae) of mostly marine fish that includes many of the world's most venomous species. The family is a large one, with hundreds of members. They are widespread in tropical and temperate seas, but mostly found in the Indo-Pacific. They should not be confused with the cabezones, of the genus Scorpaenichthys, which belong to a separate, though related family, Cottidae.
Some types, such as the lionfish, are attractive as well as dangerous, and highly desired for aquaria.
General characteristics of family members include a compressed body, ridges and/or spines on the head, one or two spines on the operculum, and three to five spines on the preopercle. The dorsal fin will have 11 to 17 spines, often long and separated from each other, and the pectoral fins will be well-developed, with 11 to 25 rays. The spines of the dorsal, anal, and pelvic fins all have venom glands at their bases.
Most species are bottom-dwellers that feed on crustaceans and smaller fish, in some cases using the spines to paralyze their victims before gulping them. Others, such as the stonefish, wait in disguise for prey to pass them by before swallowing, while Lionfish often ambush their prey.
Scorpaenid systematics are complicated and unsettled. Fishes of the World recognizes 10 subfamilies with a total of 388 species, while (as of 2006) FishBase follows Eschmeyer and has 3 subfamilies, 25 genera, and 200 species, some of the species being removed to family Sebastidae which other authorities do not follow.
In addition to the two basic names above, common names for family members also include "firefish", "turkeyfish", "dragonfish", and "stingfish", usually with adjectives added.
Sea Life Centres are marketed to families seeking as easy, entertaining and educational experience. They are marketed by owners Merlin Entertainments as a "friendly and authoritative guide to the last great frontier...the seas and oceans of the world and their myriad mysterious and amazing inhabitants."
Each centre combines modern glass and display technology, biological expertise and entertainment to provide themed journeys through European and tropical waters. This often provides close encounters with sealife from shrimps and starfish to seahorses, sharks and stingrays.
Sealife centres also claim to champion the cause of marine conservation, through education, awareness and, wherever possible, direct action.
Cheng Chau Seafood HDR
Image by lipjin
About
Cheung Chau (Chinese: 長洲, Pinyin: Chángzhōu; lit. "Long Island") is a small island 10 km southwest of Hong Kong Island. It has been inhabited for longer than most other places in the territory of Hong Kong, with a population of about 30,000 up to 2006. Administratively, it is part of the Islands District.
Went to Cheng Chau today for a walkabout with Wincy and ate some really interesting seafood - Including the infamous "Peeing Prawn" (Lai Liew Har in Cantonese). These things look like insects and they are REALLY tricky to eat.
After a search online - I found that these creatures are called Mantis Shrimps. This passage doesn't help at all...
From Wikipedia
In Cantonese cuisine, the mantis shrimp is a popular dish known as "pissing shrimp" (攋尿蝦, Mandarin pinyin: lài niào xiā, modern Cantonese: laaih niuh hā) because of their tendancy to shoot a jet of water when picked up. After cooking, their flesh is closer to that of lobsters than that of shrimp, and like lobsters, their shells are quite hard and require some pressure to crack.
Some pressure? Dude, I got blisters on the fingers after trying to crack open a dozen of them. We left the plate half eaten.
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You can check out all the pictures taken in Cheng Chau using a Canon 7D here.
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Image by snekse
Protein for the wonton filling
One (1) Lb of completely peeled shrimp.
Two (2) Lbs of ground pork. (Not pictured)
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