Last week we went with my parents to Newport Bay restaurant. The waiter made some suggestions from the menu and one of the suggestions was this: Whole Crispy Fried Red Rockfish. Comes with warm tortillas, salsa and avocado. He also said how popular it was and that the kitchen only had 5 left so if any of us were interested he'd put that order in right away. Well my Mom went ahead and ordered it. I think she got caught up in the limited quantity of it and figured it must be good. When our food came, this is what he brought my Mom....






.....it's a WHOLE fish (like it said but we didn't think it meant literally) thats been DEEP FRIED. Head, bones, fins and all. It was disgusting looking. When my Mom ordered it most of us were not paying attention because we were perusing our menu.

I think if I was a waiter and I was suggesting something like that I would really make sure the customer knew that it was an ACTUAL WHOLE fish. Needless to say my Mom picked away at the crusted thing and ate what she could. But she did leave there hungry.