The opah is a sea fish.

The opium fish is a type of flounder, with a rather flat and asymmetrical body, and both eyes on the same side, making it a rather odd-looking fish. Its original name is actually the tooth flake fish, which has nothing to do with opium. This is because the meat of the opium fish is tender and white, flavorful and plump, eat once and want to eat the next time, plus the tooth flakes have the harmonic sound of opium, so it is interesting to call it opium fish.

The content of brain gold within its fish head is unusually high, 36 times that of a common fish head, and its bones are loose and honeycomb, so it can be chewed like sugarcane, with an unusually strange flavor and texture.

Opium fish can mainly be used as fresh food or made into canned and salted dried products, fish liver can be extracted from the production of cod liver oil. Opium fish in the flounder species is China's Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea valuable fish, and other varieties of flounder is the same season to meet the flavor of the seasonal dishes dishes, do out of the dishes bright colors, spicy fat and tender.

Turbot has many kinds of fish, generally diffused in the tropical or temperate zone of the sea, China's coastal areas also have more production.

Opium fish origin where:

Opium fish is widely distributed in the world's tropical or temperate seas, China's coastal production. The main production areas of the opium fish are concentrated in China's Liaodong Peninsula and Jiaodong Peninsula, as well as the Korean Peninsula, Japan and the Russian Far East. At present in the world temperate seas and regions have been introduced, China's main production areas of opium fish is concentrated in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea.