Auckland Fish Market, located at corner Daldy Street and Madden Street, Freemans Bay, is the only market in Auckland that opens seven days selling fresh fish, fruit, veges, delicatessen goods and premium-grade meat. Apart from retail shops, there are plenty of restaurants and cafes offer something for everyone. Auckland's only dedicated seafood cooking school is available upstairs of the premise as well and even better, it has New Zealand's only seafood Dutch auction for trade customers.
Pretending to be a visitor from Uranus, I brought along my camera to the market ready for some new adventures. I was greeted by a warm welcome the first shop I went into. Maybe my disguise as Uranian did work! So I asked if I can get snap happy, and to my delight, the kind owners didn't mind me taking pictures of fish and seafood carcases.
Whole load of crap!
Live clamps
Squid, yum~
Kina, a type of sea urchin that and be found in New Zealand and certain sub-antartic islands
Not sure what's the name of this fish... but nice colour!
Look at the size of these creatures!
Mr. Octopussy
Mussels, and shit loads of them!
The market not only offers live and raw seafood but cut, washed and precooked seafood are available for those people like me who doesn't know how to chop up body parts and don't want to get my finger nails dirty, as well.
Looks nice leh~ like this photo? Click to enlarge
I must be honest that I was so turned on by all these fresh seafood! Oh wait! Not so fast! Check out the price!
I loooove scallops. But with this price, I might just go with mussels...
I haven't had Paua before and wouldn't mind to try but with $55.00 each?! Maybe next time...
These prawns are not cheap but look at the size!
Of course, these few items are the top of the line fresh seafood. But in general, prices are not low compare to supermarkets, though here is the big BUT, these are the freshest seafood in town! Can't really expect much more than that can we?
The market was as busy as ever! People everywhere and queue at the counter was long...
One of the shop owner saw me carrying a camera around and thought I must be the new kid in town so he offered to give me a paua shell, fresh as well of course. So fresh that I can actually feel the flesh of the poor paua that used to reside in this shell..
It was a big shell. Photo shows comparison to $2 coin
Shell so fresh I can smell the ocean...
Close up shot. Click to enlarge if wish to see in details
Paua flesh!! See what I mean by fresh...
After this trip we certainly know where to get fresh seafood from. Oh did I mention that they do have fish and chips (Kiwi favourites) and lots of seafood dishes available at the restaurants there... all prepared with the freshest stuff.
I'm in for fried eels!
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