I like to eat fish, but I hate to clean fish. To look back at my childhood, cleaning fish in winter would top my most-hated-things to do.
After not cooking for three weeks due to travel, I decided to grill some salted fish. The akule at downtown Costco looked like the right kind of fish, so I bought a pack of four. The label on the package said: "Fresh ... wild ...akule."
Ok, they were pretty fresh alright. In fact, they were BLOODY fresh, because they were not even cleaned! I was shocked, but there was only one way to go: forward. I have a pair of sharp scissors from Hangzhou, ZHANG Xiaoqiun brand, and it was good enough to, well, remove the whole fish head.
To prevent this from happening again, I called the store to tell them that they should have noted the fish were NOT cleaned.
(photo from http://maona.net/archives/2005/12/akule.php)