Sun Fat Seafood Co.

Any love (or feedback?) for the Sun Fat Seafood market on Mission? We just discovered this fresh seafood haven on Friday. FRIDAY! I’ve lived in SF for 18 years and I have never even heard of Sun Fat. I’m shaking my head as I type this because I was so impressed with them… I’ll be back every week.

The displays were immaculate – clean, clear tanks held large, live lobsters and gorgeous fresh clams and oysters of many types (Kumamotos were $1.65/each) and iced (the ice was pristine as pure driven snow) fish fillets and whole fish were so fresh. We bought a 1 lb. black cod/butterfish filet ($19/lb) and two cheap bags ($1/each) of the bony salmon belly toward the back. The black cod/butterfish was so delicate and fresh; we steamed it with ginger, garlic and green onions with a light soy sauce… and ate every morsel. The bony salmon belly, I had intended to misoyaki-broil but we couldn’t wait for the misoyaki marinating process. Instead, we just broiled it with garlic salt and pepper. (Chopsticks are your friend when eating these oily bony belly parts. Mr. Shibi just announced that the bony belly was "way too bony" because he was too hungry and faltering in his chopstick game.) If salmon had a “bacon” equivalent: broiled belly = bacon.

Next on my list from Sun Fat are a whole red snapper or two and possibly, a little chunk of the Chilean Sea Bass (the only fish that was labeled as previously frozen). I haven’t seen Chilean Sea Bass in markets in years -- I thought that it was endangered or at least, on a non-sustainable fish list? Well, I’m on the fence about that one, but we will be back soon.

My only regret: I did not take any pictures to share with you!

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Sun Fat Seafood
2687 Mission St (between 22nd and 23rd Streets)