Pescado Frito

This is my favorite way to eat fish; served with head and tail they are a delicacy. We eat the eyes too. I would have it every Sunday at the beach when I was a teenager. They sold the fish with plantains and coconut rice from small wooden houses right on the beach. Imagine the vendors walking around, selling mangos with salt and pepper, mamoncillos*, coconuts with their water and a straw to drink it from them, and advertising their “fish of the day,” which in my hometown was almost a