one day, several months ago, i went to some spanish tapas restaurant called Picasso.. or something like that in Hillcrest. as the review goes.. service was indeed poor and some things were.. eh. the octopus in red sauce was extremely good though if my memory serves me right. anyways.. the point.. right. anyways, we ordered the baby eels (angulas), not knowing what they were at the time, to be adventurous. what came though.. resembled what cantonese call "white rice fish", also known as whitebait. "white rice fish" is pretty ambiguous.. i've seen it refered to as baby sardines, baby smelt, etc. i guess as whitebait refers to anything similar.. anything goes. if you're not familiar with it, they're kind of a ghetto food commonly eaten boiled in congee, deep fried, or cooked in omelettes. it was pretty hilarious that what the spanish thought were delicacies were this ghetto stuff i was used to eating on top of rice. or that's what i thought. now, i could be wrong.. that they did in fact serve angulae, and i was just too uncultured to notice at the time. or, they tried to foist off a cheaper substitute in hopes that no one would notice. given the watery sangria and the fact that the dishes were either really good, or duds... i think someone needs to make a visit.
here's a rather interesting food blog that featured white rice fish.
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