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Top 5 Most Expensive Fish in Malaysia

Top 5 Most Expensive Fish in Malaysia

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Malaysia - a country that is synonymous with an amazing variety of distinctively delicious food, thanks to the melting pot of cultures that exist in harmony here. If someone were to try and do a write-up of the types of food that can be found in abundance in this country, it would be never-ending. So we decided that we'd write about a creature that can be found in at least one of the dishes from all of the cultures: the fish. Fish first appeared in existence around 530 million years ago and the evolution of this creature led to what is now a highly versatile source of meat. Do read on for the top 5 most expensive fish to be found in Malaysia:

Ikan Empurau

1) Can you imagine anyone doling out about RM550 for a kilogram of fish (and that is just the cheapest price you can get)? Neither can I. But that is exactly what many food connoisseurs are doing for a type of freshwater fish called the "Empurau" from the Tor tambroides species, or also known as "忘不了 (unforgettable) in Chinese. This fish can only be found in Sarawak, and is prized for its sweet, tender flesh and smooth texture. What makes its flesh that way and commanding hefty price tags that can reach up to RM2,000, is their diet of "Engkabang" fruits and flowers.

Ikan Jelawat 

2) A type of fish that has flesh which is similarly sweet and fine like the Empurau's but with a price tag that isn't as hefty is the Sultan Fish, or also known as Ikan Jelawat. This fish is from the Leptobarbus hoevenii species and belong to the Barb family. The flesh of this omnivore fish is soft with a subtly sweet flavour accompnaied by a nice layer of fat under the skin, probably due to the fact that this fish eats the fruit that fall near the riverbanks. It would set you back about RM320 for a kilogram of this tasty fish, quite a dent in the pocket as well.

Ikan Semah 

3) Ikan Semah, from the Tor Labeobarbus species, is indigenous to Borneo's higher reaches of freshwater rivers as it cannot be found anywhere outside this range. They are omnivores but usually prefer a diet of localized plant materials. Much of its natural habitat is affected by pollution and and their population in the wild is quickly dwindling, brought on by agriculture, logging and overfishing. Due to its exclusivity and different textures between the wild Ikan Semah to the cultured ones, the price per kilogram for this breed of fish can reach RM300, a pretty penny indeed.

Ikan Tengadak 

4) For those looking for something that is still tasty would probably want to check out the "Ikan Tengadak" which is native to the waters of Borneo. It has a price tag of about RM250 per kilogram and it is a rather bony fish with tiny "Y-shaped" fish bones. That aside, this breed has similarly very sweet and flaky flesh and is good in taste, making it a popular choice for people who are looking for a delicate freshness and good quality fish at a more affordable price.

Ikan Ketutu 

5) Finally, we have the Marble Goby fish, or "Soon Hock" fish as it is more popularly known in Malaysia ("Ikan Ketutu" in Malay). This fish is one of the biggest of gobies and comes from the Oxyeleotris Marmoratus species and its natural habitat is the brackish waters of streams, canals and lakes. As always, expensive fishes will have the trademark smooth, sweet, flaky and finely textured flesh. Coming in at RM100 per kilogram, this fish rounds up our list of Malaysia's Top 5 Most Expensive Fishes!

Type of Fish	RM per KG
Ikan Empurau	RM550
Ikan Jelawat	RM320
Ikan Semah	RM300
Ikan Tengadak	RM250
Ikan Ketutu	RM100

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By Dr. Francis Collins
Special to CNN

Editor's note: Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Human Genome Project. His most recent book is "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief."

ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN) -- I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no conflict between those world views.

As the director of the Human Genome Project, I have led a consortium of scientists to read out the 3.1 billion letters of the human genome, our own DNA instruction book. As a believer, I see DNA, the information molecule of all living things, as God's language, and the elegance and complexity of our own bodies and the rest of nature as a reflection of God's plan.

I did not always embrace these perspectives. As a graduate student in physical chemistry in the 1970s, I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at the bedsides of my patients. Challenged by one of those patients, who asked "What do you believe, doctor?", I began searching for answers.

I had to admit that the science I loved so much was powerless to answer questions such as "What is the meaning of life?" "Why am I here?" "Why does mathematics work, anyway?" "If the universe had a beginning, who created it?" "Why are the physical constants in the universe so finely tuned to allow the possibility of complex life forms?" "Why do humans have a moral sense?" "What happens after we die?"

I had always assumed that faith was based on purely emotional and irrational arguments, and was astounded to discover, initially in the writings of the Oxford scholar C.S. Lewis and subsequently from many other sources, that one could build a very strong case for the plausibility of the existence of God on purely rational grounds. My earlier atheist's assertion that "I know there is no God" emerged as the least defensible. As the British writer G.K. Chesterton famously remarked, "Atheism is the most daring of all dogmas, for it is the assertion of a universal negative."

But reason alone cannot prove the existence of God. Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page. Ultimately, a leap of faith is required.

For me, that leap came in my 27th year, after a search to learn more about God's character led me to the person of Jesus Christ. Here was a person with remarkably strong historical evidence of his life, who made astounding statements about loving your neighbor, and whose claims about being God's son seemed to demand a decision about whether he was deluded or the real thing. After resisting for nearly two years, I found it impossible to go on living in such a state of uncertainty, and I became a follower of Jesus.

So, some have asked, doesn't your brain explode? Can you both pursue an understanding of how life works using the tools of genetics and molecular biology, and worship a creator God? Aren't evolution and faith in God incompatible? Can a scientist believe in miracles like the resurrection?

Actually, I find no conflict here, and neither apparently do the 40 percent of working scientists who claim to be believers. Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.

But why couldn't this be God's plan for creation? True, this is incompatible with an ultra-literal interpretation of Genesis, but long before Darwin, there were many thoughtful interpreters like St. Augustine, who found it impossible to be exactly sure what the meaning of that amazing creation story was supposed to be. So attaching oneself to such literal interpretations in the face of compelling scientific evidence pointing to the ancient age of Earth and the relatedness of living things by evolution seems neither wise nor necessary for the believer.

I have found there is a wonderful harmony in the complementary truths of science and faith. The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. God can be found in the cathedral or in the laboratory. By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

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Symbol	Reference
Churches	1:4; 2:1-3:22
Letters	2:1- 3:22
Spirits	1:4; 3:1; 4:5; 5:6
Golden lampstands	1:12, 20; 2:1; 4:5
Stars	1:16, 20; 2:1; 3:1
Seals	5:1; 5:5; 6:1
Horns	5:6
Eyes	5:6
Angels	8:2, 6; 15:1, 6, 7; 15:8; 16:1; 17:1; 21:9
Trumpets	8:2, 6
Thunders	10:3, 4
Thousand people	11:13
Heads	12:3; 13:1; 17:3, 7, 9
Crowns	12:3
Plagues	15:1, 6, 8; 21:9
Golden bowls	15:7; 16:1; 17:1; 21:9
Hills	17:9
Kings	17:10, 11
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We live in a cosmic shooting gallery. In Phil Plait’s Death from the Skies, he lays out the dangers of a massive impact: destructive shockwaves, tsunamis, flash fires, atmospheric darkening…. The scenario isn’t pretty should a big one come our way. Fortunately, we may have a silent guardian: Jupiter.

Is it true that Jupiter could be considered our friendliest planet because – without Jupiter – comets would be more likely to hit us?

The answer is yes …  Some astronomers believe that one reason Earth is habitable is that the gravity of Jupiter does help protect us from some comets. Long-period comets, in particular, enter the solar system from its outer reaches. Jupiter’s gravity is thought to sling most of these fast-moving ice balls out of the solar system before they can get close to Earth. So long-period comets are thought to strike Earth only on very long timescales of millions or tens of millions of years. Without Jupiter nearby, long-period comets would collide with our planet much more frequently.

In addition, in recent decades, astronomers have been able to see signs of comets that have crashed into Jupiter. There was Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994. And, in 2009, astronomers observed a dark gash in one side of the giant planet, likely caused by a comet.

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