509-pound giant grouper
Dongguan News, Yangcheng Evening News (Weibo) - Qin Xiaohui's photographic report: A reader reported yesterday that there is a 509-pound giant grouper in a seafood restaurant in Houjie Town, Dongguan City. It was learned that the fish was purchased and air-freighted by the boss of the restaurant. The fish is about 2 meters long and weighs 509 pounds. If sold to a museum as a specimen, it would be worth 100,000 yuan.
At 10:30 on the 3rd, I saw six young cooks carrying a grouper that had already been butchered out of the kitchen. Because of its heavy weight and slippery surface, the cooks were obviously at a loss: they had just carried it for a few steps when it fell with a "bang" sound onto the ground. Thus, lifting it up only to drop it again, repeating this process, I calculated that in less than twenty meters, the six cooks struggled for more than ten minutes. Finally, the grouper was carried to the flat area in front of the restaurant. By then, a table had already been set up in front of the door, and to keep the grouper fresh, four ice blocks weighing over a hundred pounds each were placed on the table to form an ice bed.
According to Mr. Lin, the owner of Linji Da Shiban Fish Seafood Restaurant, the fish was caught in the deep sea area of the Indian Ocean and was transported all the way to Dongguan using ice blocks for preservation throughout the journey, "just the freight cost more than ten thousand yuan." Mr. Lin stated that such a large fish has appeared for the first time in Houjie, Dongguan. To satisfy the curiosity of local residents, Mr. Lin decided to put the fish on a truck for a tour.
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