Grouper, commonly known as rockfish, comes in many varieties, including red-spotted grouper, green grouper, treasure grouper, six-banded grouper, clouded grouper, longitudinal banded grouper and so on. It is the most prestigious of the saltwater fish produced in Hong Kong. The most common ones are the Flower Dog Spot, Red Spot, Sour Mouse Spot, Mud Spot and Mouse Spot, with the Mouse Spot being the most prestigious.
Characteristics: Grouper have strange habits, never swim with other fish, like to live alone in tens of meters deep, clear water on the seabed in the reef, difficult to use the net to catch, can only use the hook to fish. They are ferocious in nature and like to devour fish and shrimp. The fishing period is from April to November, with the period from Dragon Boat Festival to Mid-Autumn Festival as the peak season.
Eating: Grouper is rich in nutrients and has a lot of meat with few thorns, which is tender and white with delicious flavor, similar to chicken, and is known as "sea chicken meat". And grouper production more, sex long resistance to live, cheaper, is a low-fat, high-protein edible fish, y loved by the people of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Macao as one of China's four famous fish, is a high-grade banquet must have the delicacies.
Any outsider who comes to Hong Kong for the first time will be invited to try Hong Kong's famous seafood flavors automatically or by friends, and the first one tasted is often always grouper.