(Above: Ivan with the snakehead - aruan/lay he)
A few years ago, American newspapers sensationalized stories of the Snakehead ("Ikan Aruan" in Malay, "lay he" in Hokkien) found in the Potomac River, Lake Michigan, a California lake and a few public ponds, calling the event "Snakehead Invasion".
As a boy, I used to chase and catch the aruan in ankle-deep water in the drains beside Changi Road. What fun I had then.
But the Americans are funny. They are terrified of the "snakehead invasion", as they call it, and calling the fish "vicious", "toothy monster", and "Frankenfish".
The foto above shows a snakehead that we caught recently. When my mother underwent an operation many years ago, she was advised by her friends to eat a snakehead as part of the cleansing diet! They claimed that the snakehead has medicinal value.
(Read what the Smithsonian reported:
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/snakeheads.html)
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