Deepfried

The whole fish arrived, deepfried, its head and tail intact and raised off the platter as though it were alive enough to jump and its sides deeply scored to ease serving. […] There were dishes of vegetables, rice and crusty deepfried fish with sweet-sour sauce.

Deepfried fish should be coated with batter before cooking.

All day local girls and women coursed among the drivers with coolers full of little plastic bags of homemade golden ginger beer and sweet carmine hibiscus tea and milky baobab juice, all frozen into heart-size nuggets of multicolored ice, and with trays of deepfried dough and spicy balls of peanut paste and cigarettes and oily boiled noodles.