It was great to see Roll Mop herrings (HOLLAND HOUSE BRAND 500gr Jars) for sale in the Villa Markets in Bkk. The price was a little steep but whats a few baht (350) to enjoy one of my favourte foods.

My next visit was to the Friendship Super market in Pattaya , they had them as well , only 320 bht for the same sized jar .

On my return North and stopping off at Rimping Supermarket in Chiang Mai , they had them as well but 400 bht for the same jar . It would be nice of all these market owners to try a little bit better in their pricing rather than screw as much dough out of us as they can . Without us half of their businesses would close . I hope someone takes note !!

Please don;t talk about these Roll Mop herrings ! ! ! !

It makes my mouth water, just thinking about them . . . . . .

Hot-dam_n !

Please don;t talk about these Roll Mop herrings ! ! ! !

It makes my mouth water, just thinking about them . . . . . .

Hot-dam_n !

Then what about Real Fresh Herring (Maatjes) with onions ???

Please don;t talk about these Roll Mop herrings ! ! ! !

It makes my mouth water, just thinking about them . . . . . .

Hot-dam_n !

Then what about Real Fresh Herring (Maatjes) with onions ???

I had a similar "problem"...

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My dad always eats those. I hate them though. They're popular among Polish people.

And among German, Dutch, etc...

I recently made my own Pickled herrings . I went to Makro as some people mentioned that they were selling the fresh herring . I paid only 50bht per KG

very cheap . The only problem was the size of the fish were a little bit small but having never made pickeled herrings before I thought I would give it a try .

I had to de-scale the fish and gut them and then fillet the fish , oh my god , what a bloody job that was . Bones and more bones !! I had to resort to using tweezers

to pick out many of them and with my eyesight not being that great it was a challenge and a half and took me forever to do .

I bought a couple of air tight containers and the ingredients for the pickling liquer. I had searched online for what was supposed to be a good recipe and I followed

every instruction.

After washing and drying the fish and my pickling vinegar had cooled down from the boiling point , I was ready to finish the job.

The liquer was a little bit sharp but I still went ahead with the recipe and marinated layers of fish and finely sliced onion into my

containers then adding the pickled liquer at the end until the container completely covered the fish. I then put in the fridge and left them

there until I was ready to try and eat them after a couple of weeks in the fridge.

When I tried them , they were terrible , the fish didnt taste anything like herrings , the texture was all wrong , the colour wasnt right either

but then again , im no fish expert . I only went by what the fish monger told me in Makro , in English , that the fish I wanted to buy

was herring .To me they also looked like herring . I had my doubts when I filleted the fish as the colour wasnt the white I expected but more

of dark meat .

The end result was me throwing the lot in the bin and vowing never to make again , better to buy those jars from Friendship or where ever they are selling them .

And among German, Dutch, etc...

And Belgians