Pet food: Malaysian woman’s koi soup raises eyebrows after she makes meal out of dead fish

Amanda Omeychua first shared the photos of her unusual dish to a Malaysian Facebook group for cooking ‘fails’ with more than 2 million members

She said the fish had died accidentally and rather than let them go to waste, she decided to make them into a meal using a ‘traditional recipe for a king’

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Amanda Omeychua turned her dead koi fish into a soup. Photo: Facebook

Published: 6:39pm, 21 Jan 2021Updated: 8:02pm, 21 Jan 2021

Japanese koi are typically thought of as expensive ornamental fish rather than food, so a Malaysian woman caused quite a stir on social media when she shared pictures of her dead pet koi being turned into a soup.

Amanda Omeychua first posted the photos on a Facebook group with more than 2 million members called “Masak Apa Tak Jadi Hari Ni”, which roughly translates as “Cooking Fails Of The Day”.

The montage of six pictures showed almost two dozen dead fish laid out on a floor, with Omeychua explaining in a comment that they had died from a lack of oxygen after a tap was left on to refill their pond. Koi, like all pond fish, require a minimum amount of dissolved oxygen in their water to live.

The fish were measured before being sectioned and turned into soup. Photo: Facebook

Rather than let the colourful koi go to waste, Omeychua said she had decided to make them into a meal using a “traditional recipe for a king”. Her pictures show the fish being measured before being cut up and turned into soup, which she said “tasted like catfish”.

Since posting the pictures on Sunday, they have been shared more than 1,300 times and attracted over 4,500 comments, many of which expressed social media users’ shock at the unusual delicacy.

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